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The bank started to refuse giving the government any more money, since King Louis was spending it all, they didnt trust him with money anymore.
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In Versailles, Louis had his Estates-General assembly, that hasn’t occurred for a total of 175 years, because he spent a lot of money and started importing taxes to the nobility.
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To end the absolute monarchy and start the beginning of representative government, the estates voted to establish the National Assembly.
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This date was the pledge of the Tennis Court Oath was made. This pledge was made when the third estate was being excluded from their own personal meeting room. When breaking down the door of an indoor tennis court, they pledged that they would stay until they all decided together a new constitution.
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This date is actually a French national holiday, because it ended up being a strong symbolic act of revolution. In this date, a mob stormed the Bastille, which is a Paris prison looking for gunpower. All the attackers actually ended up hacking the prison commander, making several guards receive their death, and in the end, you can find their dead heads on pikes paraded around the streets. After this event occurred, the Great Fear started.
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In this date, nobleman started to make grand speeches, and by morning, the Old Regime was dead.
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This date was three weeks after the Old Regime died, but this was also the date when the Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted from the National Assembly.
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In this date, women started a riot because the prices increased, and they had lack of food.
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France gets reformed by the assembly.
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In this date, King Louis and his family became Emigres, because the royal family tried to escape from all the horrible things that were happening in France. ---Sans-Culottes: They wanted the revolution to continue because they wanted more changes in France.
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A new constitution was completed by The National Assembly which King Louis ended up approving. The limited constitutional monarchy was created by the constitution. So this is when the Legislative Assembly was created.
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In this date, The Legislative Assembly responded to Austria and Prussia by declaring war.
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In this date, about 20,000 men and women, went into the royal palace known as the Tuileries, invaded it, and killed many guards, as well as capturing the whole royal family.
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In this date, the Jacobins take over the government.
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In this date, a new government body, known as the National Convention, took office.
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In this date, King Louis got beheaded by a technical machine called guillotine.
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Prussia and Austria were at war against France, and this is that date that Great Britain, Holland and Spain joined the war.
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The Reign of Terror began when Robespierre became leader of the committee of public safety.
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Members of the National Convention were sick and tired of Robespierre that they were demanding that he got arrested and even executed.
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In this date a new government plan was created, and it was drafted The National Convention.
