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After bad harvests and costly wars, King Louis XVI is forced to convene this ancient assembly in order to raise taxes.
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Bastille stormed and taken by a Paris mob. Lifted by it's feet which is being grabbed by the mob.
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Assembly of the nations resolves not to disband until it has written a constitution. This prohibited them from disbanding then came the constitution.
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Peasants attack noble manors.
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Nobles in National Assembly renounce feudal rights.
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King Louis brought from Versailles to Tuileries palace in Paris.
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Assembly issues Civil Constitution of the Clergy, requiring elections and oaths.
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King flees to Austria, is caught at Varennes.
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Austria and Prussia call for support of French King.
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National Assembly issues Constitution; elections are held.
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Convention condemns and executes the King.
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France declares war on Austria and Prussia.
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Paris mob storms royal palace; Commune seizes Assembly; Legislative Assembly falls. Minister of Justice Danton purges thousands of presumed traitors.
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French army stops Prussians and Austrians at Valmy.
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Convention abolishes monarchy and declares France a republic.
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Counter-revolutionary revolt in the Vendee begins by starting to progress in a way hat moves forward.
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Convention declares war on 1st Coalition of Austria, Prussia, Britain, Holland and Spain.
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Committee of Public Safety (Robespierre) begins.
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Danton executed in any favorable form according to medieval ways of execution.
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French victory over Austrians at Fleurus (Belgium).
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Robespierre executed, end of terror.
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The Dauphin dies in prison, Comte de Provence assumes title of Louis XVIII.
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Napoleon's "Whiff of Grapeshot" save the Directory from a royalist mob.
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Royalists attempt a coup and Napoleon Bonaparte makes his name suppressing the move with grapeshot. The popular party gains strength, Gracchus Babeuf is its spokesperson, holding running meetings at the Pantheon.
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The Convention dissolves itself in favour of a dictatorship of the Directorate.
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Napoleon assumes command of French army in Italy.
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Leaders of Babeuf’s “Conspiracy of Equals” arrested
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Coup d'état removes royalists from Directory.
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French defeat Austrians in northern Italy and make peace.
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French capture Switzerland, Rome and Naples; suffer bad defeat in Egypt
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2nd Coalition of Austria, Russia, Turkey and Great Britain drive French Army back.
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Napoleon's coup d'état abolishes Directory and establishes Consulate
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Napoleon makes peace with Austria and Britain, Concordat with the pope.
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3rd Coalition (Austria, Britain and Russia) moves against France.
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French victories; "republics" set up throughout Europe, Spain resists.
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The Penal Code making any association of more than twenty people subject to government approval and severely repressing any union attempting industrial action or wage agitation.
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Decree fixing at ten the age from which the children can go down the mines.
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Austria, Britain, Prussia and Russia defeat France, Napoleon sent to Elba.
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British and Prussians defeat Napoleon at Waterloo; Louis 18th restored.
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Napoleon returns to France for "100 days."