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King Louis XIV spends $100 million to build the Palace of Versailles
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King Louis XIV dies leaving France in debt.
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Enlightenment or age of reason reaches its height
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Louis XVI marries Austrian Marie Antoinette.
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Louis XV dies also leaving France in debt from wars fought during his reign; Louis XVI takes over.
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Peasants mad about new tax plan; Louis calls first meetingof Estates-General in 175 years
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Declaration of Independence is written and the colonists win the American Revoulution in 1781.
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The Third Estate declared themselves the National Assemply and made the Tennis Court Oath
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Fearing Louis would use force to dismiss the National Assembly, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille: tore it down. Shortly after The Great Fear would start.
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Declaration of Rights of Man written guaranteeing freedoms of equality, press, religion, and justice.
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Guillotine is introduced
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Jacobin leader Maximillen Robespierre is slowly gaining power- wants to erase France's past; becomes leader of Committee of Public Safety and rules France for next year like a dictator. His rule known as the Reign of Terror
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King Louis is executed by guillotine
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Jean-Paul Marat, member of radical political group Jacobins, is stabbed in bathtub by Charlotte Corday
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Marie Antoinette is executed by guillotine.
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Robespierre is executed by guillotine ending radical phase of revolution
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Royal family attempts to escape but are caught and arrested
