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Napoleon is born in an island called Corsica in the Mediterranean
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Bad harvests led to food shortages, rising food prices, and unemployment
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Due to the financial crises, Louis XVI is forced to call a meeting with the Estates-General
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Third Estate drafts a Constitution, gets locked out of Versailles and makes the Constitution on tennis court
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Prices of breaad unaffordable, attackers destroy Bastille and cause Paris to be abandoned
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National Assembly abolishes the legal privileges of the nobles and the clergy.
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The National Assembly write and adopt the Decleration of the Rights of the Man and the Citizen
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Thousands of Parisan women march to Versailles and force Louis XVI to accept the new decree
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A new Constitution is set up that abolishes old order and sets up a limited monarchy
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As France loses a war against Austria, and food is short, the radicals capture the king and suspend the monarchy
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Louis XVI's rule and the monarchy ends in chaos
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National Assembly abolishes the monarchy and establishes a republic
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The founding of the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women in Paris begins the de-Christianization in France, in the name of reason
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Louis XVI is beheaded on the guillotine
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Austria, Prussia, Spain, Portugal, Britain, and the Dutch Republic threaten invation, in a coalition
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All traitors and counter-revolutionaries begin to be excecuted by the guillotine or grapeshot
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France defeats foreign military with an army of one million soldiers that was raised
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Robespierre passed the Law of 22 Prairial, and was then condemned and excecuted for it
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New Constitution establishes two houses in the legistlative branch, and the Directory for the executive branch, that turned corrupt
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Napoleon becomes commander of the French armies and Italy and wins a series of battles
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Napoleon Bonaparte overthrowns topples the Directory, overthrows the government, and seizes power
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A Peace Treaty is signed between France, and Great Britain, Russia, and Austria
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War breaks out again between France and Great Britain
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Napoleon crowns himself as emperor
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The Napoleonic Code is created, consisting of seven laws
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Great Britain defeats France, and allied Spain
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Napoleon defeats the Austrian, Prussian, and Russian armies
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Napoleon's downfall begins with an invasion of Russia
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Napoleon's army retreats across Russia in the cold winter without supplies, ~560,000 soldiers die in this retreat
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Paris is captured, as France is crippled from the Great Retreat
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Napoleon returns from exile and takes back his empire
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Napoleon is defeated by the British and Prussian troops, and exiled to an island in the south Atlantic
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Napoleon dies in exile
