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- 1793
- Louis and Marie are executed. REIGN OF TERROR begins
- 1791
- Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are arrested as they try to escape France.
- 1781
- Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown. Treaty of Paris signed. The Revolutionary War is over and America is free from England
- 1775
- April: Lexington & Concord attacked. May: 2nd Continental Congress meets
- 1776
- January: Thomas Payne writes COMMON SENSE. July 4: Declaration of Independence
- 1763
- FRANCE: French & Indian War; France loses all its colonies in N. America to England
- 1789
- US Constitution is adopted
- 1794
- Reign of Terror ends. French Government is now a Republic
- 1789
- FRANCE: Louis calls a meeting of the 3 estates and tries to raise taxes for war debts from helping the Americans with their revolution. 3rd Estate refuses and forms the National Assembly. Lafayette writes the Declaration Of the Rights of Man. July 14: Bastille is attacked by 3rd estate and ammunition is taken. Louis is forced to sign D.O.R.M. France becomes a Constitutional Monarchy
- 1773
- Boston Tea Party (Sons of Liberty). Boston is occupied by British Soldiers and the harbor is closed.
- 1763
- • French & Indian War; England wins & gains French colonies in North America