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Louis XIV spends $100 million to build palace at Versailles
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Louis XIV dies leaving France in debt
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Enlightenment or Age of Reason reaches its hight
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Louis XVI marries Austrian Marie Antoinette
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Louis XVI dies also leaving France in debt from wars fought during his reign; Louis XVI takes over. People of France are poor and hungery
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Declairation of independence is written and the colonist win American Revolution.
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Peasants mad about new tax plan; Louis calls first meeting of Estates-General in 175 years.
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The First Estate declared themselfs the National Assembly and made the Tennis Court Oath
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Fearing Louis would use force to dismiss the National Assembly, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille; tore it down. The Great Fear startsshortly after.
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Declareation of Rights of Man written gauranteeing freedoms of equality, press, religion, and justice.
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Royal family attempts to escape but are caught and arrested.
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Guillotine is introduced
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Jean-Paul Marat, member of radical political group Jacobins, is stabbed in bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
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Jacobin leader Maximillien Robespierre is slowly gaining power- wants to erase Frances past; becomes leader of Committee of Public Safety and rules France for the next year like a dictater- His rule was known as the reign of terror.
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King Louis is exicuted by guillotine
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Marie Antoinette is executed by guillotine
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Robespierre is exicuted by guillotine ending radical phase of revolution
