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Estates General convene at Versailles |
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Third estate declares itself the National Assembly |
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Oath of the Tennis Court is sworn |
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Storming of the Bastille occurs |
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Great Fear ravages the countryside |
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National Assembly abolishes feudal privileges |
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National Assembly issues Declaration of the Rights of Man |
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Women march on Versailles and force royal family to return to Paris |
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National Assembly confiscates church lands |
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy establishes a national church. Louis XVI reluctantly agrees to accept a constitutional monarchy |
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Royal family arrested while attempting to flee France |
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Austria and Prussia issue the Declaration of Pillnitz |
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France declares war on Austria |
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Parisian mob attacks the palace and takes Louis XVI prisoner |
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September Massacres occur. National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes monarchy. |
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France declares war on Britain, Holland, and Spain. Revolts take place in some provincial cities. |
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Bitter struggle occurs in the National Convention between Girondists and the Mountain |
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Robespierre and the Mountain organize the Committee of Public Safety and arrest Girondist learders. |
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Price controls are instituted to aid the sans-culottes and mobilize the war effort. |
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Reign of Terror darkens Paris and the provinces. |
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French armies are victorious on all fronts. |
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Robespierre is executed. Thermidorian reaction begins |
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Economic controls are abolished, and suppression of the sans-culottes begins. |
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Napolean defeats Austrian armies in Italy and returns triumphant to Paris |
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Austria, Great Britain, and Russia form the Second Coalition against France |
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Napoleon overthrows the Directory and seizes power. |
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Financial crisis in France |
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Storming of the Bastille; Declaration of the Rights of Man |
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Burke, Reflections of the Revolution in France |
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Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
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Robespierre's Reign of Terror |
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Robespierre deposed and executed |
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Napoleon defeated and exiled |
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Napoleon overthrows the Directory |
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French voters overwhelmingly approve Napoleon's new constituion. |
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France defeats Austria and acquires Italian and German territories. Napoleon signs the Concordat with the pope. |
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France signs the Treaty of Amiens with Britain |
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Napoleon crowns himself emperor |
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Britain defeats the French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar |
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Napoleon defeats Austria and Russia at the Battle of Austerlitz |
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Napoleon redraws the map of Europe in the treaties of Tilsit |
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The Grand Empire is at its height. |
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Napoleon invades Russia with 600,000 men |
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Napoleon makes a disastrous retreat from Russia |
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Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Britain form the Quadruple Alliance to defeat France. |
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Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba |
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