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  The Estates-General meets after not meeting for 175 years
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  Beginning of the French Revolution and the Storming of the Bastille
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  Tennis Court Oath of dismissed Estates-General members who refuse to adjourn
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  Nobles forced to recant their feudal rights, and so make the Declaration of Rights of Man
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  The Reign of Terror
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  Marie Antoinette guillotined.
