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Hail causes a crop loss famine breaks out
Lack of food, esspessially bread -
Estates general is called to meet in Versailles
1st and 2nd Estates have 300 representatives; 3rd has 600 reps -
Bastille Day
900 people of Paris stormed the Bastille; a bastille is an old fortress used as a prison and aromory -
National Assembly
abolished legal privalages of first two estate -
Declaration of the Rights of Men
is created -
Women march
6-7,000 women march 15 miles, find a way into the castle and beat everyone also kill some guards -
constitution of 1791
favored the Bourogeosie -
A Paris mob attacks the royal palace
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Napolean becomes a captain
returns to paris to see SC attack -
Directory makes Napoleon General of France
defeats the papal states and Austria -
Two men try to overthrow the Directory
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Catholicism is made the majority or main religion
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Napoleon make himeself consul for life
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Napoleon declares the republic is over
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France becomes an empire and Napoleon becomes Emporer
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Period: to
Napoleon was master of Europe after defeating Prussia, Austria and Russia
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Fall of Napoleon
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Napoleon took 600,00 men to Russia
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about 40,000 out of the 600,000 make it back to Poland
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Napoleon is exiled to the island of Ebla
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Battle of Waterloo
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Exiled again to St. Helena
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Napoleon dies of stomach cancer