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Louis XVI request Estates General to hear grievances
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Jacque Necker is dismissed. 50,000 citizens arm themselves with pikes and form National Guard
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Armed citizens storm and capture the Bastille
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The French Flag: Prior to the storming of the Bastille
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen decreed by National Assembly
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Delegation led by Women to King in Versaille demanding bread.
After scuffles, they are fobbed off by the King.
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Civil Constitution inaugurated by Louis XVI
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Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau elected President of the French Assembly
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King Louis XVI attempts to flee Varennes, but is recognized and forcibly returned to Paris
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Jacobin Insurrection, again thwarted by gestures by the King, but Jacobins continue to defy the Assembly
The Jacobins were the most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution
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Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick publishes call for allied attack on France
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King imprisoned after Jacobin masses storm the Tuileries Palace
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Layfayette flees to Austria
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Royalist riot in the Vendee, Britanny; armies suffer setbacks at Lanwy and Verdun
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1,200 Royalist Massacred after Georges Jacques Danton instigates
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Girondist expelled from all offices. Commune of Paris becomes the center of power.
Girondists (Party of Compromise)
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Marat murdered by Charlotte Corday
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Charlotte Corday executed amid popular outrage
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Levee en masse (conscription) decreed.
Levee en masse was the policy of military conscription adopted in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789
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"Law of Suspects" initiates the Terror
Law of Suspects was a decree passed by the Committee of Public Safety on 17 September 1793, during the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution.
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22 Girondists tried and executed
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Popular Leaders Executed - Robespierre becomes virtually the dictator.
Robespierre, the Committee of Public Safety and Jacobin club denounce the Herbertists and Dantonists on framed-up charges and execute all the popular leaders
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Supreme Being religion decreed by Robespierre
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Mass Trial and Execution implemented
Victims would now go to the guillotine in batches of 50 or 60 at a time. An estimated 2,750 are executed of whom the great majority are poor.
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The first White Terror was a period of political violence during the French Revolution following the death of Robespierre and the end of the Reign of Terror.
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Comte de Provence assumes title of Louis XVIII
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Constitution of Year III approved
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Napoleon Bonaparte named "First Consul". Now the effective dictator.
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