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Napoleon is born in Corsica
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Bread Riots begin
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Louis XVI calls the Estates General
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French Revolution begins
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Napoleon becomes Lieutenant
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National Assembly is created
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Bastille Day
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A new flag is made
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National Assembly abolishes legal privileges of the first 2 Estates
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Declaration of the Rights of Man
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Womans' March on Versailles
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Marchers in Versailles break into castle
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Constitution on 1791
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Legislative Assembly meets for the first time
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Legislative Assembly has their election
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Napoleon becomes captain
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French monarchy is over
King Louis XVI is no longer in power -
Paris mob attacks the royal palace and the Legislative Assembly
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September Massacre
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National Convention ran France's government and set up the French Republic
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New Calendar is used
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Revolutionary Republican Women is created
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Constitution of 1793
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King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine
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Committee of Public Safety is created
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countries ready to attack France
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Jean Paul Marat is executed in a bathtub
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Reign of Terror
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A public ceremony dedicated to reason is held in Notre Dame
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Napoleon is made brigadier general and puts down uprisings in Paris
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1,300 people are executed under Law of Prairial
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Thermidorian Reaction begins
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Robespierre is executed and Jacobins lose power
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French army had defeated most of its foreign foes
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France's army reaches over 1 million soldiers
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Constitution of Year III (or 1795)
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Prairial Uprising (May)
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Directory makes Napoleon General of France armies in Italy
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Napoleon is supposed to invade Britain; goes to Egypt instead
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coup d'état; Directory is overthrown
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Napoleon made agreement with Pope; Catholicism major religion
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Napoleon makes himself Consul for life
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Napoleon sold the Louisiana Purchase
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Napoleon declares French Republic over
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Civil Code finished and introduced by Napoleon
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Napoleon got to Moscow
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Napoleon makes it to Poland
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Napoleon is exiled to Elba