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In the fall of 1786, Louis XVI’s controller general, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, proposed a financial reform package that included a universal land tax from which the privileged classes would no longer be exempt.

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French Revolution, also called Revolution of 1789, revolutionary movement that shook France between 1787 and 1799 and reached its first climax there in 1789—hence the conventional term “Revolution of 1789,” denoting the end of the ancien régime in France and serving also to distinguish that event from the later French revolutions of 1830 and 1848.

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The Assembly of notables

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Unrest among the populace in Paris, Grenoble, Dijon, Toulouse, Pau, and Rennes.

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Tennis Court Oath

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Great Fear, when the peasants were nearly panic-stricken

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Fall of the Bastille

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Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

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The Wives’ March; Louis “kidnapped” back to Paris

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Women's march on Versailles

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Festival of Federation, held in Paris in on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, were symbolic affirmations of the new order.

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Clergy instructed to swear allegiance to France

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Pope Pius VI condemns the Civil Constitution of the Clergy

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The Royal family attempts to escape

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Louis & Marie Antoinette captured at Varennes

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Declaration of Pillnitz: Austria & Prussia express support for Louis

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The papal territory of Avignon was reunited with France.

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France declares war on Austria

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Attack on the Royale Palace of Versailles

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Parisians storm Tuileries palace; end of Louis XVI’s power

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French Republic proclaimed

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| Parisians storm Tuileries palace; end of Louis XVI’s power

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French cannons drive back Prussians at Valmy

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Louis XVI executed

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The war entered a third phase, marked by new French defeats. Austria, Prussia, and Great Britain formed a coalition (later called the First Coalition), to which most of the rulers of Europe adhered. France lost Belgium and the Rhineland, and invading forces threatened Paris.

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Committee of Public Safety founded

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The Jacobins seized control of the National Convention from the more moderate Girondins and instituted a series of radical measures, including the establishment of a new calendar and the eradication of Christianity.

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| Mass conscription instituted

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The second phase of the war, during which the revolutionaries got the better of the enemy.

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Reign of Terror (la Terreur), a 10-month period in which suspected enemies of the revolution were guillotined by the thousands

Reign of Terror (19 Fructidor, year I–9 Thermidor, year II []), which entailed the arrest of at least 300,000 suspects, 17,000 of whom were sentenced to death and executed while more died in prisons or were killed without any form of trial.

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Marie Antoinette executed

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A brilliant victory over the Austrians at Fleurus on 8 Messidor, year II (June 26, 1794), enabled the French to reoccupy Belgium.

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The Girondin leaders were driven from the National Convention, and the Montagnards, who had the support of the Paris sansculottes (workers, craftsmen, and shopkeepers), seized power and kept it until 9 Thermidor, year II, of the new French republican calendar ()July 27, 1794

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Royalists tried to seize power in Paris but were crushed by the young Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte. A few days later the National Convention dispersed.

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Disputes were settled by coups d’état, which removed the royalists from the Directory and from the councils

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Thus French troops in 1798 and 1799 entered Switzerland, the Papal States, and Naples and set up the Helvetic, Roman, and Parthenopean republics.

https://www.britannica.com/event/French-Revolution/The-Directory-and-revolutionary-expansion

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An expeditionary corps under Bonaparte easily occupied Malta and Egypt, but the squadron that had convoyed it was destroyed by Horatio Nelson’s fleet at the Battle of the Nile on 14 Thermidor, year VI (August 1, 1798). This

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Bonaparte abolished the Directory and became the leader of France as its “first consul.”