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| 1764 |
| | | The Russian empress Catherine the Great secures the throne of Poland for one of her lovers, as Stanislaw II | |
|  | Portrait of Stanislaw II, c.1780
Dulwich Picture Gallery
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| 1772 |
| | | Gustavus III achieves a coup d'état which brings executive power in Sweden back into royal hands | |
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| 1781 |
| | | Joseph II passes an Edict of Toleration, for the first time allowing Protestant worship in Habsburg territories | |
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| 1785 |
| | | The French queen Marie Antoinette is wrongly implicated in a scandal involving a diamond necklace | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Louis XVI and his family attempt to flee from Paris to the border but are captured at Varennes | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Louis XVI is guillotined after a majority of just one in the national Convention has voted for death without delay | |
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| 1799 |
| | | A Sikh maharajah, Ranjit Singh, captures Lahore and makes it his capital in his campaign to unify the Punjab | |
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| 1799 |
| | | A Portuguese prince regent, the future John VI, rules on behalf of his deranged mother, Queen Maria | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon abandons his army in Egypt and returns hastily to Paris at a time of great political opportunity | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon contrives a military coup that ends the Directory and gives him sweeping powers as First Consul | |
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