what major events happened in the french revolution?
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['#1 The Tennis Court Oath – June 20, 1789. ... ', '#2 Storming of the Bastille – July 14, 1789. ... ', '#3 Abolition of Feudalism – August 4, 1789. ... ', '#4 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen – August 26, 1789. ... ', "#5 Women's March on Versailles – October 5, 1789. ... ", '#6 Royal Flight to Varennes – June 20, 1791.']
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How was the Immediate Financial Crisis a short term cause of the French Revolution? Because of the king's desperation, in 1787 Charles de Calonne invited the clergy and nobles to discuss the financial crisis. Then, in 1789, the Estates General was called.
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The ideas of the Enlightenment played a major role in inspiring the French Revolution, which began in 1789 and emphasized the rights of common men as opposed to the exclusive rights of the elites. As such, they laid the foundation for modern, rational, democratic societies.
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Among the social effects that caused this revolution can include: Urbanization increased rapidly. The population moved into hastily built housing in cities to be nearer to the factories. Families were separate as the place of work shifted from the home to factories.
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The Enlightenment is often associated with its political revolutions and ideals, especially the French Revolution of 1789. The energy created and expressed by the intellectual foment of Enlightenment thinkers contributes to the growing wave of social unrest in France in the eighteenth century.
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['The Stamp Act (March 1765) ... ', 'The Townshend Acts (June-July 1767) ... ', 'The Boston Massacre (March 1770) ... ', 'The Boston Tea Party (December 1773) ... ', 'The Coercive Acts (March-June 1774) ... ', 'Lexington and Concord (April 1775)']
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France became a constitutional monarchy after the National Assembly completed the draft of the constitution in 1791 with the objective of reducing the powers of the monarch. Powers were separated and assigned to different institutions like the legislature, executive and judiciary.
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The Glorious Revolution, also called “The Revolution of 1688” and “The Bloodless Revolution,” took place from 1688 to 1689 in England. It involved the overthrow of the Catholic king James II, who was replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange.
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The Revolution was achieved in large part by the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), which was fought between England against America and its allies (France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic). ... The American Revolution did not produce a total upheaval of the previously existing social and institutional structures.
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['Call of the Estates Generals (May 5, 1789) ... ', 'Tennis Court Oath (June 17, 1789) ... ', 'Storming of the Bastille (July 14, 1789) ... ', 'Declaration of the Rights of Man (August 26, 1789) ... ', 'March on Versailles (October 5, 1789) ... ', 'Civil Constitution of the Clergy (July 12, 1790) ... ', 'Royal Family attempts to flee (June 20, 1791)']
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["5 January 1757: Louis XV cheats an assassin's blade. On 5 January 1757, Versailles shivered under a thick blanket of snow. ... ", '9 January 1806: Nelson makes his final journey. ... ', '25 January 1077: Henry IV bends his knee to the pope at Canossa. ... ', "20 January 1265: England's first parliament meets."]
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In general, historians agree on several different causes of the French Revolution, including: the history of the estates-system, resentment towards the absolute monarchy of Louis XVI, the impact of the Age of Enlightenment, the weather conditions before 1789 and the economic crisis that France faced under Louis XVI.
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['meeting of the estates general. may 5, 1789.', 'tennis court oath. june 20, 1789.', 'storming of the bastille. july 14, 1789.', 'declaration of the rights of man. august 26, 1789.', 'great fear. September 1789.', 'march on Versailles. October 5, 1789.', 'king and queen try to escape. june 21, 1791.']
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Louis XV, byname Louis the Well-Beloved, French Louis le Bien-Aimé, (born February 15, 1710, Versailles, France—died May 10, 1774, Versailles), king of France from 1715 to 1774, whose ineffectual rule contributed to the decline of royal authority that led to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.
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['Key Events of the Haitian Revolution. ... ', 'The Players. ... ', 'Organizing Insurrection. ... ', 'The Beginning of Slave Rebellion. ... ', 'Colonial Assembly at Saint Marc. ... ', 'Burning Le Cap Ignites Revolution.', 'Port-au-Prince in Flames. ... ', 'A Leader is Dead in Acul Plain.']
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The short-lived French Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime. One of the basic precepts of the revolution was adopting constitutionality and establishing popular sovereignty.
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