14h 29min, jul 14, 1789 y - Destruction of the Bastille
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900 Parisians gathered at the courtyard of the Bastille and stormed it, until the prison warden surrendered. The rebels killed the warden by cutting off his head and demolished the Bastille brick by brick. Paris was abandoned to the rebels.
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14h 29min, jul 14, 1789 y
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~ 234 years ago
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