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Voltaire is imprisoned in the Bastille. Critics embraced his epic poem. He spent a year in the Bastille
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Colonial revolt which occurred. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War, winning independence.
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Wedding took place by the proxy in Vienna. Married at 15 and 14. Married from 1770-1793
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Coronation in June 1775. He married Marie Antoinette and was executed for treason in 1793
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the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath vowing "not to separate and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established."
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The people of France raided the Bastille and took weapons. After, the Bastille was torn down brick by brick.
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A crowd of women marching to Versailles and demanding bread. They were going after the queen. They caused riots and raided the bakery
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Created after the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Regime.
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He was an outspoken politician. He angered certain people. He was in his medicated bath and Charlotte Corday stabbed him.
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He was sending everyone to the guillotine including his supporters and friends. He was finally captured and beheaded with 21 of his followers.
