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Insurrection at Grenoble
An event that took place in the French town of Grenoble on June 7 1788. It was among the first of the disturbances which preceded the French Revolution. -
Opening of the Etat general at Versailles
The last ceremony of the Acien Regime, 1200 representatives from all over France assembled for this. They discussed their debt, 56 million, the king thought the best way to solve this were new taxes. The Third Estate took things in hand, the Revolution had begun. -
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen became a fundamental document.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights -
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The National Assembly decrees that hereditary nobility is for all time abolished
Noone whosoever shall use or be addressed by the titles of prince, duc, comte, marquis, vicomte, vidame, baron, chevalier, messire, ecuyer, noble or any other similar title. -
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The king formally accepts constitution
The short-lived French Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the Absolute Monarchy of the Ancien Regime. -
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The Battle of Valmy
It was the first major victory by the army of France during the Revolutionary Wars that followed the French Revolution. The action took place on 20 September 1792 as Prussian troops commanded by the Duke of Brunswick attempted to march on Paris. Generals François Kellermann and Charles Dumouriez stopped the advance near the northern village of Valmy in Champagne-Ardenne. -
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The trial of Louis XVI
It was a key event of the French Revolution. It involved the trial of the former French king Louis XVI before the National Convention and led to his execution.
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Levee en masse
New military law that establishes that all young men should enter the army. -
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Constitution of Year III approved, establishing Directory.
Constitution of 1795 is ratified -
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Elections produce a Royalist majority.
Elections in 1798 and 1799 produce a more radical result and are annulled by the Directorate. -
Napoleon sells Louisiana
The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. [T]his little event, of France possessing herself of Louisiana, ... is the embryo of a tornado which will burst on the countries on both shores of the Atlantic and involve in it’s effects their highest destinies. -
Napoleon is exiled to St. Helena
He was, for second time exilied. -
Second treaty.
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The execution of Louis XVI
By means of the guillotine, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution in Paris. It was a major event of the French Revolution. After events on the 10 August 1792, which saw the fall of the monarchy after the attack on the Tuileries by insurgents, Louis was arrested, interned in the Temple prison with his family, tried for high treason before the National Convention, convicted in a near-unanimous vote, and condemned to death by a slight majority. -
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The food riots centered in the St. Antoine district of Paris
It was where a factory which produced luxury wallpaper was owned by Jean-Baptiste Réveillon. The factory employed around 300 people. The riots were one of the first instances of violence during the French Revolution. The factory where the riot took place was unusual in pre-revolutionary France as the factory was guild-free in an era where guilds controlled quality standards.
