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Ended the American Revolution. Signed in 1783 by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. This created the United States as a new and independent country.
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The call of the Estate General was a French congress that originated in the medieval period and consisted of three estates.
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The members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath, vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require.
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A state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed.
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The execution of Louis XVI by means of the guillotine, a major event of the French.
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A label given by some historians to a period during the French Revolution.
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The same day, 28 July 1794, in the afternoon, Robespierre was guillotined without trial in the place de la Revolution.
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A series of major conflicts putting the French empire and its allies against a array of European powers led by the United Kingdom.
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A successful anti slavery and anti colonial insurrection by self liberated slaves against the french.
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Took place at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. It marked the instantiation of modern empire.
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Battle on Sunday 18, 1815 in present day Belgium and then part of the United Kingdom.
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The Mexican War of independence was an armed conflict which ended the rule of Spain in 1821 in the territory of New Spain.