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King Louis XVI, son of King Louis XV, was crowned King of France in 1774
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This was a meeting where representatives from each estate come & discuss problems in which only the1st and 2nd estates got a say in it which resulted in the Tennis Court Oath
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The National Assembly was established by the 3rd estate citizens in order to seperate themselves from the 1st & 2nd estates to pass laws and reforms to the government themselves.
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Three days after the Estates General began and the National Assembly was formed, the 3rd estate was locked out of the meeting room at Versailles & decided to stay at the Indoor Tennis Court until their rights were established (The first act of the Frenchc Revolution)
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The 3rd estate citizens were outraged by the Kings decisions so they invaded the Bastille prison in Paris to find gunpowder to defend the city
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Peasants attack noble manors
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Parisian women led peasant men in an angry mob which forced The King & his Royal family to flee from Versailles
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Revolutionaries wanted war because they thought war would unify the country
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Convention abolishes monarchy and declares France a republic.
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One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by guillotine
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Robespierre's Reign of Terror ignites a bloody conflict in the French Revolution
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The death of Robespierre marked the beginning of the Thermidorian Reaction, a moderate phase in which the French people revolted against the Reign of Terror’s excesses.
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A New constitution was established forming the Directory
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After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d’état, he crowned himself emperor in 1804
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Napoleon wanted to teach Alexander a lesson about taunting his empire so he set out to invade Russia which didn;t go as Napoleon planned
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Napoleon was defeated in Belgium against Duke Wellington who was commander of Belgian, Dutch, & German
