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The French Estates-General meets to discuss financial crisis; when the King locks the Third Estate out of the assembling room they find an indoor Tennis Court to meet, and create the National Assembly
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The National Assembly creates "The Declaration of the Rights of Man"
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Bastille Day, when the people of the Third Estate stormed Bastille prison in search of weapons
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Armed Peasant Women storm Versailles because they believe Marie Antoinette is hoarding bread; the King and Queen retreat to Paris
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The National Assembly has trouble deciding whether to "keep the king or not"
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King tries to flee the country and is caught; he is put under house arrest
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King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette guillotined
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Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined; the moderate Directory begins to govern
