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The Estates-General Meeting
Gathering of the 3 estates. This was the meeting where the king said that the third estate would have to pay his debts. -
The Great Fear
A period of terror panic -
Decleration of the Rights and of the Citizen
That men have basic rights such as Liberty, Property, Safety and Resistance to Oppression -
Tennis Court Oath
A meeting where the 3rd estate members got together to rebel against King Louis XVI -
Storming of Bastille
The 3rd estate was fed up with being treated unfairly, so they stormed the capital -
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French Revolution
Third estate started a war against the first and second estate, they felt like they weren't being treated fairly -
Reign of Terror
Period of terror in the French Revolution were a lot of people got killed, the most common form of muderer at this time was a Guillotine -
Execution of King Louis XVI
King Louis XVI gets executed, it symbolized the beginning of a democracy in France -
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Reign of terror
Period of terror and fear in France. 17,000 people died from the guillotine -
Napoleon Bonaparte´s Coup d'etat
Napoleon taking over France signaled the end of the revolution -
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The First Empire(Napoleon)
After the French Revolution when Napoleon took over France and invaded Austria, Germany, Portugal and Spain -
Congress of Vienna
Attempts to forge peaceful balances of power in Europe -
Battle of Waterloo
Napoleons final battle before death