may 5, 1789 - Call of the Estates General-May 5, 1789 The first, second, and third estate were called by King Louis XVI. An old rule was reinstated, that each estate would get one vote each. The clergy and the nobility teamed up and out-voted the commoners, making them pay all of the taxes.
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may 5, 1789
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~ 235 years ago
