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Storming of the Bastille ignites the French Revolution
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George Washington is inaugurated as first U.S. president
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King Louis XVI was executed by the guillotine. Reign of Terror begins
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Great Britian seizes the Cape Colony in South Africa from the Dutch
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Directory appoints Napoleon commander of French forces in Italy
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Napoleon overthrows the directory through a coup d'etat
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Saint Dominge gains independence
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Napoleon crowns himself emperor, begins to create a vast European empire
