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The French revolution started
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The French Revolution
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The king returns to paris
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Removal of civil disabilities against Jews
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Civil Constitution, subordinating the Church to the civil government, inaugurated by Louis XVI
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National Guard fires on crowd protesting against restoration of the King.
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Civil marriage and divorce instituted. Assembly orders all émigrés to return under pain of death.
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France declares war on Austria, but French army flees at sight of the enemy.
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Royalist riots in the Vendée, Britanny; armies suffer setbacks at Langwy and Verdun.
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Committee of Public Safety established.
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Marie-Antoinette tried and executed.
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Robespierre decreed the new religion of the Supreme Being.
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Jacobin Club is suppressed by the Convention.
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The Dauphin dies in prison, Comte de Provence assumes title of Louis XVIII.
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The Convention dissolves itself in favour of a dictatorship of the Directorate.
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Napoleon assumes command of French army in Italy.
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Leaders of Babeuf’s “Conspiracy of Equals” arrested.
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Elections produce a Royalist majority. Elections in 1798 and 1799 produce a more radical result and are annulled by the Directorate.
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Babeuf and his supporters are convicted but take their own lives.
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Directorate resigns.
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(18th Brumaire) Napoleon Bonaparte named “First Consul,” now the effective dictator.
