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Members of the three estates came together to discuss grievances, and elect representatives who would meet at Versailles.
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A crowd searching for military supplies attacked the Bastille.
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Austria and Prussia threaten to intervine in the French Revolution in support of monarchy.
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A crowd invaded the king's (Louis XVI) palace in Paris and forced him to seek protection in the Legislative Assembly.
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King Louis XVI was executed by the guillotine.
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A period of violence after the onset of the French Revolution.
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The Revolution was secure from foreign and domestic enemies, but repression, now institutionalized, continued
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Maximilien Robespierre was arrested and over the next two days, him and nearly a hundred of his allies were executed by the guillotine.
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The Paris working class rose in protest and the Convention approved the use of overwhelming military force
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Napoleon Bonaparte seized power of the French army (aka: Napoleon overthrows the Directory)
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Negotiations with the Catholic Church led to the Concordat of 1801 which gave French Catholics the right to freely practice their religion.
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The Civil Code of 1804 gave people equality in law and protection of property (aka: the Napoleonic Civil Code)
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Napoleon crowns himself emperor
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The British navy defeated the French and allied Spanish fleets thwarting Napoleon's plan to mobilize forces to invade Britain.
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Napoleon invaded Portugal in 1807.
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Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808.
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Napoleon was forced to abdicate the French throne.
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Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo.
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Napoleon was executed on the distant island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic.
