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1785
 
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The French queen Marie Antoinette is wrongly implicated in a scandal involving a diamond necklace       
1787
 
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The French finance minister, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, is dismissed when his proposed reforms meet aristocratic opposition      
1788
 
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The ministers of Louis XVI reluctantly announce that the estates general will meet in 1789, for the first time since 1614       
1789
 
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A pamphlet published in France by Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès asks a challenging question, What is the Third Estate?       
1789
 
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A left-wing political club begins to meet in a Jacobin convent in Paris, thus becoming known as the Jacobins      
1789
 
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Delegates of the Third Estate swear an oath in a tennis court at Versailles, pledging themselves not to disperse until France has a constitution