a timeline of the french revolution

  • Convene the Estates Gene Assembly

    Convene the Estates Gene Assembly
    the government meets in order to raise taxes because of the bad harvest
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    National Assembly Government

    Revolutionary government led by the third estate
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    King flees Austria

    king flees to Austria, is caught at Varennes
  • Tennis Court Oath

    the tennis court stated to not break up until it has a written Constitution
  • Bastille

    Bastille
    a Paris mob took Bastille in a angry passion
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    Great Fear

    Pheasant attack noble manners
  • National Assembly

    noble rights renounced feudal rights
  • Rights of Man

    Rights of Man
    issued Declaration of rights of man
  • Brought from Versailles

    king Louis brought from Versailles to tuileries palace in Paris
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    Legislative Assembly Government

    Constitutional government by elected officials
  • Paris mob

    Paris mob
    Paris mob storms in the royal palace; legislative Assembly government collapse. Minister kills thousands of presumed traitors
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    National Convention Government

    Elected by universal male suffrage to rewrite the constitution
  • National Convection

    National Convention abolishes monarchy and declares France a republic
  • Day One of New Revolutionay Calendar

    Day One of New Revolutionay Calendar
  • Convention Commands

    national convention commands and executes the king
  • Counter Revolutionary Revolt

    Counter revolutionary revolt in the vendee region begins
  • Price Controls

    Price controls put into place by the government, dechristianization, administrative reform.
  • Region of Terror

    Region of Terror by Committee of Public Safety begins
  • Thermidor

    In the month of Thermidor, Robespierre is executed; Region of Terror ends
  • Churches

    Churches
    Churched reopened
  • Adopted Constitution

    New Constitution is adopted, forming a new government called the Directory.
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    The Director Government

    A new constitution has two houses: counsel of ancients and counsel of 500
  • Government Takeover

    Government takeover removes royalist from the directory
  • Neopolitan's Government Takeover

    Neopolitan's Government Takeover
    Neopolitan's government takeover abolishes directory and establishes consulate government; end of French Revolution