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The Estates-Generals, decide to meet up at Versailles to decide whether to count by head or to give each estate equal votes.
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The dispute over votes in the Estates-General leads deputies of the Third Estate to declare themselves the National Assembly. Along with some members of the clergy they threaten to proceed without the other two estates.
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Royal officials decide to lock the National Assembly out of their regular meeting hall members of the assembly occupy the king’s indoor tennis court. They take what comes to be known as the Tennis Court Oath, promising not to disperse until they give France a new constitution.
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King Louis The XVI who has no backbone urges the other two estates to join the state assembly, Which then takes the official title of the NCA however he begins to gather troops with the intention of dispersing the body.
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Amid the Great Fear of July 1789, when Parisians were panicked about the possibility of the aristocracy overthrowing the Third Estate, a large crowd seizes the Bastille prison, which is a symbol of royal tyranny.
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The DRMC was introduced by the national assembly who then the king refuses to sanction it, resulting in Parisians marching to Versailles and forcing the royal family back to Paris.
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The French declare war on Austria. For the next seven years, the hostilities known as the French Revolutionary wars continue between France and various European powers.
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The national convention decided to abolish the monarchy and established a republic
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Louis the XVI is executed for treason.
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Marie-Antoinette is executed by guillotine.To Wich The Reign of Terror is overseen by Maximilien Robespierre.
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Robespierre is executed while arrested signaling the end of the Reign of Terror. Soon after, the National Convention is dissolved, making way for a government consisting of a five-person Directory and a bicameral legislature.
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overthrows Directory and declares himself first consul, or leader, of France. later becomes emperor.
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Adoption of the constitution of year III