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King Louis XVI calls the General Assembly
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French Revolution Pre-Napoleon
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National Assembly is formed
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National Assembly declares itself Constituent Assembly
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Armed Citizens storm the Bastille
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The Great Fear begins
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National Assembly decrees the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
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Women Storm Versaille demanding bread.
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The royal family returns to Paris
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Church loses land
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Abolishment of the nobility and titles
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Black Citizens of French colonies gain rights
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Royal Family tries to leave France
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Jacobins storm the Tuileries Palace and imprison the king
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Jacobins storm the Tuileries Palace and imprison the king
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King accepts the Constitution
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France declares war on Austria
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Duke of Brunswick calls for allied attack on France
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Duke of Brunswick calls for allied attack on France
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General mobilisation,citizens sent to the front line
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Danton instigates the execution of about 1,200 prisoners locked up in Parisian prisons
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French forces defeat the invading forces at Valmy
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Monarchy is abolished, day one of the Republican calendar
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King is put on trial
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Louis XVI is executed
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France declares war on Britain and Holland
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Committee of Public Safety established
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Marat “the people’s friend,” murdered by Charlotte Corday
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Corday executed amid popular outrage
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Marie-Antoinette tried and executed
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Rebuplican Calendar decreed
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Festival of Liberty and Reason
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Robespierre, the Committee of Public Safety and Jacobin Club denounce the Hébertists and Dantonists on framed-up charges and execute all the popular leaders
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Jacobin Club is suppressed by the Convention
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The Churches re-open for Christian worship.
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Royalists attempt a coup and Napoleon Bonaparte makes his name suppressing the move with grapeshot. The popular party gains strength, Gracchus Babeuf is its spokesperson, holding running meetings at the Pantheon
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The Convention dissolves itself in favour of a dictatorship of the Directorate
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Napoleon assumes command of French army in Italy
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Directorate bans popular meetings at the Panetheon
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Leaders of Babeuf’s “Conspiracy of Equals” arrested
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100s of supporters of Babeuf attack palace of the Directorate
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Babeuf and his supporters are convicted but take their own lives.
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Directorate resigns
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Napoleon Bonaparte named “First Consul,” now the effective dictato
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Bonaparte restores the Chambers of Commerce
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Napoleon consecrated as Emperor.
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Death of Napoleon
