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The Estates-General meets after not meeting for 175 years
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Tennis Court Oath of dismissed Estates-General members who refuse to adjourn
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Beginning of the French Revolution and the Storming of the Bastille
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28 July 1794:
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Nobles forced to recant their feudal rights, and so make the Declaration of Rights of Man
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Marie Antoinette guillotined.