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Meeting of the Estates General
The Estates General stemmed from a meeting that reunited an equal number of representatives from each Estate to solve this serious political crisis.
Everyone met at the Palace of Versailles to debate some major problems. -
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Brutal French Revolution
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Voted to Extablished the National Assembly: Tennis Court Oath
On June 17, the Third Estate decided to break from the Estates General and draw up their own constitution. They also dubbed themselves the "National Assembly." -
Storming of the Bastille
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France on the morning of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. -
Feudalism Ended, Divisions between Estates Ended
The National Constituent Assembly, announced, "The National Assembly abolished the feudal system entirely." It abolished both the rights of the Second Estate (the nobility) and the First Estate (the clergy).Therefore the old judicial system, founded on the 13 regional parliaments, was suspended in November 1789, and finally abolished in 1790. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights. It defines the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. -
Royal Family attempts to flee
The Jacobins trailed Louis because he betrayed him, after telling Prussia and Austria that they should take violent measures against the revolution, and agreeing with the idea of the war. King Louis XVI is found guilty after the civilians vote, and by one vote, he is sentenced to death. -
Legislative Assembly declares war on Austria & Prussia
The French were basically forced to declare war on Austria and Prussia because they feared the revolutionary ideas were going to spread acrosss Europe -
France Abolished the monarchy
During the French Revolution, the proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy was a proclamation by the National Convention of France announcing that it had abolished the French monarchy on 21 September 1792. -
Robespeirre becomes leader of Committe of Public Safety ¨The Reign of Terror¨
Robespierre was one of the leaders of the Revolution. He was not officially a dictator at any period. He headed the Committee for Public Safety and because of his immense political skill, the Committee (including himself) gained unprecedented power and influence. After the execution of Georges Danton and some other prominent revolutionaries, he himself ended up at the guillotine. -
King is Executed
The Revolution of 10 August, the Republican Revolution, in which Louis XV's grandson, and the throne he occupied, had been overthrown. It was that grandson who rode in the slow-moving carriage on that bleak morning five months later, murmuring prayers. Louis XVI, condemned after a trial before the elected representatives of the French Nation, was going to his execution. -
Robespierre Death
Robespierre was betrayed by the members of the National Assembly, and they demanded his death by arresting him and sending him to be executed, by the infamous guillotine. The "Reign of Terror" was finally over with the death of Robespierre. -
Moderated Government created; called ¨The Directory¨
The constitution of the year III, which the National Convention had approved, placed executive power in a Directory of five members and legislative power in two chambers, the Council of Ancients and the Council of the Five Hundred. This regime, a bourgeois republic, might have achieved stability had not war perpetuated the struggle between revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries throughout Europe.
