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Napoleon is exiled to Elba
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Great Fear sweeps France
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Poor women of Paris march on Versailles
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Third Constitution is adopted
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Declaration of the Rights of Man
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Citizens storm the Bastille
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Moderate
The Assembly at this early stage was dominated by moderate reformers from the bourgeois and noble classes. Most members hoped to keep the king as a ceremonial figurehead by turning France into a constitutional monarchy. -
Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted
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Estates General meets
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Constitution creates a limited monarchy
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National Assembly is formed
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Royal Family attempts to flee France
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France becomes a Republic
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Paris mob invades Tuileries palace
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Royal Family confined to Tuileries
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Radical
Radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794 -
Committee of Public Safety is created
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Louis XVI beheaded
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Marie Antoinette is beheaded
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Reign of Terror
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Robespierre is beheaded
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Directory takes power
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Reaction
Reactionary denoted people who idealized feudalism and the pre-modern era before the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution when economies were mostly agrarian. -
Napoleon becomes 1st Consul
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Age of Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte was a french leader that was born in 1769 on the French island of Corsica. At age 9 Napoleon was sent to the military and by age 20 he was a lieutenant in the French Revolution. -
Concordat with the Catholic Church
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Napoleon invades Egypt
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Napoleon named Consul for life
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Napoleonic Code adopted
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Napoleon becomes Emperor
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Battle of Austerlitz
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Battle of Trafalgar
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Napoleon invades Russia
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Battle of Leipzig
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Napoleon named Consul for life
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27. Napoleon returns from Elba
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Napoleon invades Spain
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Napoleon abdicates the thrown & Louis
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Napoleon exiled to St. Helena
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Battle of Waterloo
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Napoleon dies
