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A general assembly representing the french estates, summoned by King Louis XVI to propose solutions.
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The 3rd estate of France voted "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary, until the Constitution of the kingdom is established".
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A prison known as Bastille was stormed by an angry mob, the prison was a symbol of monarchy and dictation in the revolution.
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By France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution, first drafted by Abbé Sieyès and the Marquis de Lafayette with help from Thomas Jefferson.
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Slaves on the Haitian reservation started to fight.
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The slaves started to fight against the people who owned them.
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After being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention. King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine at Place de la Revolution in Paris.
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The Directory stopped the mass executions and took measures to relax some of the more radical views at the time
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The event marked the end of the French Revolution and the beginning of the Napoleonic era, in which France would come to dominate much of continental Europe.
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The Constitution nominates the citizen Toussaint-Louverture, Chief General of the army of Saint-Domingue.
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They expelled the French from Saint-Domingue, and on January 1, 1804, Dessalines, as governor-general, proclaimed the entire island of Hispaniola an independent country
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Wars of Independence were the revolutions that took place during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and resulted in the creation of a number of independent countries
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Mexico decided to split from Spain in 1810
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