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The French Revolution took place in 1789.
Impact on Europe:
(i) Formation of Jacobin clubs: When the news of the Revolution reached the different cities of Europe, students and other members of educated middle classes began setting up Jacobin clubs. Their activities and campaigns prepared the way for the French armies which moved into Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and much of Italy in the 1790s. With the outbreak of the revolutionary wars, the French armies began to carry the idea of nationalism abroad.
(ii) Liberalisation of people : The revolutionaries further declared that it was the mission and the destiny of the French nation to liberate the peoples of Europe from depotism, in other words to help other peoples of Europe to become nations.
(iii) Rise of Napoleon and its impact: The conditions created by the revolution paved hway for Napoleon who took several steps to reform the economy of Europe. He introduced uniform laws, standardised weights and measures, and a common national currency. These steps had a far reaching impacts on Europe.
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