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King Louis XVI eventually had to convene to the Estates General assembly due to bad harvests and costly wars in order to raise taxes.
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Revolutionary government lead by Third Estate
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resolves to not disburse until a constitution was written
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Bastille was stormed and taken by a Paris mob
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peasants attack noble manors
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Nobles renounce federal rights and Jacobin Club is formed
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Assembly issues the Declaration of the Rights of Man
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King Louis brought form Versailles to Tuileries in Paris
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King Louis flees to Austria and is caught in Varennes
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Constitutional government by elected officials
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Paris mob storms royal palace, the Legislative Government Collapses. Justice Danton kills thousands of presumed traitors
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elected by universal male suffrage to rewrite constitution
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National Convention abolishes monarchy and declares France a republic
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First day on revolutionary calendar
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Revolutionary calendar introduced with new day and month names
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National convention condemns and executes the king
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counter reveloution revolt in the Vendee region begins
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Committee of public safety begins the reign of terror lead by Robespierre
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New constitution is adapted, forming a new government called the Directory
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price controls put in place by government, dechristianization (saints names removed from streets), administrative reform of government
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In the month of Thermidor Robespierre is executed and reign of terror ends
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Churches are reopened
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New constitution has 2 houses, Council of Ancients and Council of 500
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Government takeover removes royalists from Directory
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Napoleons government takeover abolishes Directory and establishes Consulate government, end of French Revolution
