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Also known in America as French and Indian war. This war generated a great debt in France, and people were starving. It was part of the cause of the French Revolution.
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In Versailles
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By the Tennis Court Oath
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This causes a great polemic and disappointing in the Third Estate
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The Revolutionaries took the Bastille, which was a prison where weapons were stored in
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The National Assembly of France declared it
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These women forced the King and his wife to come back to Paris, because they were angry with them: Maria Antoinette was suspicious of hoarding grain and the king Louis XVI was disrespectful with the Revoulutionary symbols, like the flag.
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Frederick William II and Leopold II created it
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The National Assembly finally creates a constitution, which turns France into a constitutional monarchy.
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To solve the problem, the French people declare war to Austria.First, they unsuccesfully tried to attack the Austrian Netherlands, then, Prusia enters the war in the side of Austria, and they make their way into France.
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General of Prusia, the Duque of Brunswick makes the Brunswick Manifesto, which is something like the Declaration of Pilnitz, the Duque says that he intends to install the King.
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The people storm where the French monarchy is staying, at the Tulleries, and they imprisoned Louis XVI and his wife. The National Assembly declares a REPUBLIC because they don't need a king or queen anymore.
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Stalemate at Valmy, where the war was ending.The National Assembly decides to create a new Constitution.
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The French people execute Louis XVI, he was killed by the guillotine, invented to kill people in a more ‘humane’ way
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The National Assembly declares war on Britain and the Dutch Republic, and Spain and Portugal start to help Prusia and Austria in the war against France, too.
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France is able to fight against all these countries because they had a revolutionary government created in February and declared the Levée en Masse, which said that every unmarried Young man in France had to join the army, and the french army raised over 1 million soldiers.
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The National Assembly creates the Comité of Public safety – a default goverment controlled by Maximillien Robespierre. They basically started to guillotine the people they didn’t like.
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In Tolon, there was a revolt against the revolutionary goverment, created by a new artillery captain called Napoleon Bonaparte.
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The Reign of Terror begins, over the next year:16000 people are guillotined40000 people were killed (wars...)
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Marie antoinette is also executed with the Guillotine
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They created a new month (Thermidor=July) and a new calendar, people got sick of Robespierre and they guillotined him (July 1794, too).
