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Escalating violence led to the end of the monarchy and started the Reign of Terror
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National Assembly resolves to not disband without a written constitution
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3rd estate declares itself the "Assembly of the Nation"
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Over 800 Parisians take over the Bastille, killing the commander and 5 guards
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Peasants attack noble manors
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Nobles in the National Assembly renounce feudal rights
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National Assembly issues Declaration of the Rights of Man
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Suspected enemies of the revolution were sent to the guillotine by the thousands
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National Convention adopts a new Law of Suspects, permitting the arrest and rapid trial of anyone suspected of opposing the Revolution
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Marie-Antoinette is convicted and guillotined on the Place de la Revolution.
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Robespierre, the leader of the Committee of Public Safety, is executed. His death marked the beginning of the Thermidorian Reaction, a moderate phase in which the French people revolted against the Reign of Terror’s excesses
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Inmates of Paris prisons arrested under the Law of Suspects are released
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The National Convention approved a new constitution that created France’s first bicameral legislature
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French Revolution ends with Napoleon Bonaparte taking full control of the government