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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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King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution
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King Louis XVI accepts the new constitution
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Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Overthrow of the monarchy. France is now a republic. Today is perhaps even more important in French history than July 14, 1789. The First Terror begins. It will end on September 20, 1792.
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Louis XVI is sentenced to the guillotine.
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The Law of Suspects is passed, authorizing the creation of revolutionary tribunals to try those suspected of treason against the Republic and to punish those convicted with death
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people defended the queen before the beggining of the revolutionary tribunal
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Jacques René Hébert — main man of the sansculottes, leader of the Club of the Cordeliers, supporter of the Reign of Terror — and 17 revolutionaries who agreed with him, are guillotined
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The National Convention arrests Robespierre.
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Royalists run riot in Paris and get crushed by republican troops, led by Bonaparte.
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Last day of the National Convention. Tomorrow it will be replaced by the Conseil des Cinq-Cents (Council of Five Hundred), which in turn will elect the Directory. Napoleon Bonaparte is the new general of the Army of the Interior."The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created."
