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The French Revolution details
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Accesion of Louis XVI
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French Revolution
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Fall of the Bastille
This marks the start of the revolution -
Declaration of the rights of man
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Louis XVI captured trying to flee France
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War declared on Austria
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Prussia declared war on France
Prussia thinks the revolutionary ideas will rub off onto the surrounding countries and so Prussia wants the king back into power. -
Overthrow the monarchy
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Republic proclaimed
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king executed
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Fall of Robspierre
Again ignore date, apart from year -
Girondins executed