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The Estates General meet for the first time since 1614 to discuss the financial crisis in France.
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The Third Estate is locked out of the Eststes General, so they sit in a nearby handball (tennis) court until a new constituion was written. It eventually worked.
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The infamous prison, the Bastille, was overtaken by a mob of people and raided for its gunpowder.
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The Great Fear sweeps across France. Peasants thought the nobles were going to attack them, so they launched a preemptive strike against the nobles by burning down houses and legal documents.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man was signed on this day. It's main statement was "men are born and remain free and equal in rights."
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Women riot over the price of bread prices. they go to Versailles demanding grain, and when the king's court denies them, the women raid the palace and take the king and queen back to paris.
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The royal family attempts to flee to Varennes. They are caught near the boarder and brought back to Paris.
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King Louis XVI is forced to sign a document that basically removes all of his power.
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The Duke of Brunswick wrote a document saying that Paris would be destroyed if the royal family was harmed.
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The people of France created the National Convention abolished the monarchy and created a republic.
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The Jacobin Club institute terror by executing anybody who could possibly be a traitor.
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The Directory was the form of government that went after the National Convention
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The famous French Genreral, Napoleon, takes over the French government in a coup de'etat.
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On this day, there was a signed document between Napoleon and the Pope that reinstates the Catholic Church in France.
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The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs go to the most qualified.
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France sells part of North America to the Americans.
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Napoleon crowns himself emperor, showing his power over the Church.
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This was an important naval battle fought between the British Navy and French Navy.
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This was a large embargo of all British goods in France.
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This was a war between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula.
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France invades Russia and is severly crippled after their loss to the Russians.
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After retreating from Russia, Napoleon offered to step down and let his son take over. The people denied him, so he abdicated his throne and left for Elba.
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Napoleon comes back from Elba, only to lose the Battle of Waterloo and be forced into exile once again.
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Napoleon, after losing the Battle of Waterloo, leaves for St. Helena where he ives out the rest of his days.