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Upon his grandfather's death on 10 May 1774, he assumed the title "King of France and Navarre".
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Tensions between the American colonies and the British government approached the breaking point, especially in Massachusetts.
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Louis XVI wanted to tax the 1st and 2nd estate and he held a meeting with a member from each estate.
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A revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General.
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The Third Estate, which had the most representatives, declared itself the National Assembly and took an oath to force a new constitution on the king.
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A state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule.
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The ladies were hungry and didn’t have bread.
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Revolutionaries wanted war because they thought war would unify the country, and had a genuine desire to spread the ideas of the Revolution to all of Europe.
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The national convection was elected to provide a new constitution for the country after the overthrow of the monarchy, they had 749 deputies.
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Louis XVI was convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine
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When Robespierre took control there were 16,594 official death sentences in France, this time period became known as the reign of terror, people would get killed if they criticized France.
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The fall of Maximilien Robespierre and the collapse of revolutionary fervour and the Reign of Terror in France.
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French Directoire, the French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III.It included a bicameral legislature known as the Corps Législatif. The lower house, or Council of Five Hundred, consisted of 500 delegates
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The coup of 18 Brumaire brought General Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France.
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Napoleon invaded Russia during winter which caused a lot of his members to die.
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A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: a British-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army
