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Meeting of the Estates General
The representatives of the three states of each locality would make lists of damages of rights and goods to present to the king. -
Fall of Bastille
Storming of Bastille caused by demonstrators looking for weapons and gunpowder. -
Women's March on Versailles
Parisian women march to Versailles in response to the food crisis. -
Flight to Varennes - The king escapes
Louis XVI and his family flee Paris but are caught near the Austrian border -
The Declaration of Pillnitz
Prussia and Russia claim that if any harm is done to the king, both countries will intervene militarily. -
Dissolution of the National Assembly
The end of the special privileges of the nobility with the legalization of equality. -
Trial of Louis (December)
By the republic reformation, it proposed the execution of Louis XVI, the moderates rejected and demanded a trial, but the effort wasn't worth it. Louis XVI was blamed for betrayal. -
War with Austria
The Legislative Assembly Declares War against Austria. (Marie Antoinette was Austrich). -
Declaration of the Republic
In late September, therefore, the first election took place under the rules of the Constitution of 1791. Monarchy was abolished. -
Reign of Terror
Was a period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between two rival political factions, Gerondins and Jacobins. -
The Directory
A five-member organization that governed France from November 1795 to November 1799. -
Napoleon Bonaparte
During the period from 1795 to 1799 in particular, the French army was nearly unstoppable. A young Corsican in charge of French forces in Italy and then Egypt. -
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Napoleonic wars
It was a series of wars conflicts that took place during the time when Emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte ruled in France. -
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Latin American Wars of Independence
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Congress of Vienna, assembly
Assembly in 1814–15 that reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars.
