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Excessive spending and poor harvests lead to a financial crisis in France
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The National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
After h civil unrest of the Great Fear the National Assembly adopted the Deceleration of the Rights of Man which gave men equal rights and any man the right to own property. -
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The Great Fear in the countryside
This as a period after the storming of the Bastille where there was much civil unrest and it lead to the nobles giving in and giving up feudal rights and privileges -
King Louis XVI calls the Estates General
After much pressure from commoners King Louis XVI gives in and calls on the Estates General for the first time since 1614 -
The storming of the Bastille
In order to prevent the king from disbanding the National Assembly many commoners stormed and destroyed the prison releasing the prisoners inside. -
The Tennis Court Oath
After King Louis XVI closed of the meeting place for the
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The Women’s March on Versailles
After the Deceleration of the Rights of Women and Children was published women felt a wake up call and women of all social classes joined together to storm Versailles and take the king back to Paris to accept Frances new constitutional monarchy. -
The Directory is installed
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The Constitution of 1791 sets up a constitutional monarchy in France
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Robespierre's Reign of Terror
The time period where the lawyer Maximilien Robespierre became the leader of France. He used price control to regulate the economy and allowed anyone deemed a traitor to be executed. The Terror ended in Robespierre's own execution in 1794 which successfully ended the bloodshed. -
The Legislative Assembly declares war on Austria
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Louis XVI is executed at the guillotine
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First and Second Estates join the Third Estate in the newly formed National Assembly