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The Seven Years War officially began when England declares war on France. However, fighting between England and France had been going on in North America for years.
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The marriage of the Dauphin, the future Louis XVI, and the Austrian princess Marie Antoinette.
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France signs a military alliance with the American revolutionaries.
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The Treaty of Paris brings the American Revolutionary War to a close. Involvement in the war had cost the French government more than 1.8 billion livres.
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Charles de Calonne, the new finance minister, informs Louis XVI of France’s imminent bankruptcy, proposing immediate fiscal and taxation reform.
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The national assemnbly was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate. They eventually forced King Louis to sign rights for them.
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The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the third estate who were kicked out of the meeting of the estates general. They made a makeshift conference room on the tennis court they made an oath"not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established"
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The fortress/prison, Bastille, was attacked by revolutioners. It was a symbol of the abuses of the monarchy.
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The Declaration Of The Rights Of Man is a document of the french revolution that describes the rights of humans. The document was forcefully signed by King Louis.
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The march began with women in the marketplaces of Paris who were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread. They marched to the Palace of Versailles and confronted the king.
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The royal escape is when King Louis XVI of France, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris to try to revolt the revolution. Their effort of escape ended in Varennes, where they were arrested after having been recognized at their previous stop in Sainte-Menehould.
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The Champ de Mars massacre. The National Guard kills between 20-50 rowdy Parisians, who had gathered to sign a Cordeliers petition for the abolition of the monarchy.
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After what happened 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 reign of terror was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution. There was mass killings of "enemies of the revolution".
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The National Convention passes the Law of the 22 Prairial, increasing the power of tribunals, removing the rights of defendants and limiting all penalties to death.
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The Revolution unified France and enhanced the power of the national state. The currency changed. The king was beheaded. There was no more absolute monarch.
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/french-revolution-effects-revolution.html
