may 5, 1789 - Meeting of Estates General in Paris
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The estates General was a general assembly representing the French estates (1st: clergy, 2nd: nobility, and the 3rd: commoners) in a meeting and debate. The assembly sparked the Third Estates Rebellion against the crown and led them to later declare themselves as the National Assembly.
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