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People from the Third Estate vowing "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary, until the Constitution of the kingdom is established". They eventually declared themselves the National Assembly and took the oath to form a new constitution.
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Parisian heard rumors that royal troops were going to occupy the capital, so they broke into the Bastille looking for weapons. It is a sign of the beginning of the French Revolution.
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Nobles in the National Assembly give up feudal rights and Jacobin Club formed. The purpose of forming the Jacobins club is to create a strong government that could deal with the needs of war, economic chaos, and internal rebellion.
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Declaration of Rights of Man is a civil human rights document. It defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution.
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The constitution is called the Constitution of 1791. It remained the monarchy, but sovereignty effectively resided in the Legislative Assembly, which was elected by a system of indirect voting.
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Convention declares war on the 1st Coalition of Austria, Prussia, Britain, Holland, and Spain. French eventually wins the war after 5 years in 1797.
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The Convention became the new de facto government of France, and the next day it abolished the monarchy and declared a republic.
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King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris.
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Maximilien Robespierre is the founder of the Reign of Terror. He encouraged the execution and mostly by guillotine. About 17,000 people died from it.
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The goal of the Law of General Maximum is to set price limits and punish price gouging to attempt to ensure the continued supply of food to the French capital.
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There are many French colonies in the Caribbean and eighty percent of the total population had lived under the slave system since the seventeenth century. Slavery was officially abolished in all French colonies on February 4, 1794.
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Robespierre and many of his supporters were executed by guillotine on July 28, 1794. This is the official end of the Reign of Terror.
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The Constitution of 1795 established a liberal republic with a franchise based on the payment of taxes.
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Coups D'état removed the Royalists from the Directory and from the Councils.
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French defeated Austrians in northern Italy and a peace settlement between France and Austria was signed at Campo Formio.
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This election is for the president and won by Maximilien Robespierre. He utilized his power to rig the election for the last National Assembly.
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D'état abolishes Directory and forms the Consulate, which achieves the goal of making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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The sign represents the end of the schism between the French government and Catholic Church.
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Napoleon proclaimed himself the First Consul for Life. He made a new constitution in order to get a succession to rule his son. He also created a new regime in his own image.
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Napoleon is the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. Pope Pius VII handed the crown to Napoleon in the Notre-Dame Cathedral.
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The Spanish army led by the Marquess of Wellington defeated the French army under King Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan. The war took place near Vitoria in Spain. Spain's victory eventually led to victory in the Peninsular War.
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Saint Helena is an island on the off-coast of Africa. Napoleon died six years later from stomach cancer, and his body was returned to France.
