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Estates-General meets for the first time since 1614
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Tennis Court Oath
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People stormed Bastille because threat from Louis XVI on National Assembly
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Clergy and Noblity gave up Fuedal dues, Serfdom, the Tithe, Hunting and Fishing rights, and Personal Privaliges
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Surrender of feudal rights: The August Decrees
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Surrender of feudal rights
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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Start of Reign of Terror
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A group of women attacked Versilles
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Palace of Versailles stormed
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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Louis XVI accepts the Constitution formally
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Royal family caught trying to flee to Austria
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King Louis XVI and his family try to flee to Varennes
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Louis XVI accepts the Constitution formally
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France declares war against Austria
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The king, hiding in Tuileries Palace, was forced by a mob to wear a red hat, symbolizing revolution.
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September Massacres of prisoners in the Paris prisons
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Proclamation of the First French Republic
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Louis XVI executed
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Marie Antoinette guillotined
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National Convention, led by Robespierre, passes decree to establish the Cult of the Supreme Being
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Directory takes on executive power
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Robespierre arrested and killed. Reign of terror over.
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People accepted the coup d'etat of Napoleon
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Constitution of the Year VIII- leadership of Napoleon established under the Consulate. French revolution considered ended
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Napoleon as First Consul for life
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Civil Code (also known as Code Napoleon)
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Napoleon crowns himself Emperor
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Napoleon invades Russia
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Napoleon arrives in Moscow to find the city abandoned and set alight by the inhabitants; retreating in the midst of a frigid winter, the army suffers great losses.
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Napoleon is exiled to Elba
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Restoration of Louis XVIII
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Napoleon arrives in Paris. Beginning of the Hundred Days
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Battle of Waterloo
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Napoleon is exiled to Saint Helena
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Napoleon dies