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A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI In Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan.
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The storming and fall of the Bastille.
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The National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
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Louis XVI and his family were arrested while trying to flee from France.
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King formally accepts Constitution.
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Jacobin masses storm the Tuileries Palace, massacring the Swiss Guard, and the King imprisoned.
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Louis XVI executed.
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“Law of Suspects” initiates the Terror.
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Marie-Antoinette tried and executed.
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Robespierre, the Committee of Public Safety and Jacobin Club denounce the Hébertists and Dantonists on framed-up charges and execute all the popular leaders. Robespierre becomes virtually the dictator.
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The National Convention arrests Robespierre.
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Convention calls for arrest of Robespierre. Robespierre attempts insurrection which flops, is arrested and executed. After about 150 of his supporters are done away with, the Terror is over.
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Royalists attempt a coup and Napoleon Bonaparte makes his name suppressing the move with grapeshot. The popular party gains strength, Gracchus Babeuf is its spokesperson, holding running meetings at the Pantheon.
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The Convention dissolves itself in favour of a dictatorship of the Directorate.