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A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan
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After being locked out of their meeting room, deputies of the Third Estate assembled on a tennis court and swore not to separate until a constitutional regime was established.
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Symbollically marked the beginning of the French Revolution. The Monarchy was overthrown and a republic was set up based on the ideas of equality, liberty and brotherhood.
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A period of paranoia and riots by the French public due to rumours about a conspiracy by the King and the rich to overthrown the Third Estate.
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Using the US declaration to model theirs after, the French establish the French Constitution, also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.
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Parisians, led by a large number of women, march upon Versailles and force the royal family back to Paris. The Assembly, still in Versailles, declares, in the spirit of constitutional monarchy, its inseparability from the king.
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A law passed which subordinated the Roman Catholic Church to the French Government.
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Louis XVI and his family are arrested while trying to flee from France.
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The legislature of France is established. It consisted of 745 members. Few were nobles, very few were clergymen, and the great body came from the middle class.
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France declares war on Austria. Prussia later joins the Austrian side of the war.
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Resulted in the fall of the French monarchy after the storming of the Tuileries Palace by the National Guard of the Insurrectional Paris Commune and revolutionary federes from Marseilles and Brittany.
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The September Massacres wave of killings in Paris and other cities in the late summer of 1792. There was a fear that foreign armies would attack Paris and that the inmates of the city's prisons would revolt and massacre the people.
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The Legislative Assembly votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the First Republic.
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Assembly formed that governed France for three years
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A major event of the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was executed in the "Revolution Square". Britain declared that unless France gave up its conquests, war was unavoidable.
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After the execution of King Louis XVI, the "Reign of Terror" begins.
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Marie Antoinette was convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of treason to the principles of the revolution, and was executed.
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Robespierre and his allies were placed under arrest by the National Assembly. The next day, Robespierre and 21 others were guillotined (executed) without a trial in the Place de la Revolution.
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Napoleon Bonaparte is brought to power as First Consul of France. This event is considered by many as what ended the French Revolution.
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An agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII that solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France.
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A national referendum was held to declare Napoleon as "Consul for Life". A vote was 99.8% approved.
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A French civil code that forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified.
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Napoleon is crowned Napoleon I, and became the first Frenchman to hold the title of Emperor in over a thousand years.
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The royal navy fought against fleets of French and Spanish. The royal navy overwhelmingly defeated the French and Spanish.
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The French empire fought the Third Coalition, and crushed them.
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Napoleon's Army crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian Army. The result was a decisive Russian victory.
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Napoleon abdicates his thrown and is banished to Elba, a Mediterranean island.
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A conference of Ambassadors of European chairs by Austrian statesman, Klemens Wenzel von Metternich. It lasted until June 1815.
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A battle between France and the Seventh Coalition. France was defeated, thus ending Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French.
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The Holy Alliance Treaty was a treaty between Austria, Prussia, and Russia, signed in 1815.
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A treaty that was signed following the defeat and abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Napoleon dies on May 5th, 1821.His last words were, "France, army, head of the army, Joséphine."