FR Timeline

  • France's economy falls

    France's economy falls
    The bankers of the third estate are stopping to work and the people were also failing to trade because of the high taxes and bad weather was killing the crops making food a problem.
  • Meeting at Versailles

    Meeting at Versailles
    A meeting took place with the representatives of all the three estates to aprove a new tax to the nobles
  • Vote for National Assembly

    Vote for National Assembly
    The National Assembly was established and the end of an absolute monarchy had been proclaimed. The tennis court oath was made that day.
  • The fall of the Bastille

    The fall of the Bastille
    The Bastille prision was taken over in search of gunpowder and weapons and became the national holiday after tha day.
  • love, liberty, equality

    love, liberty, equality
    The noblemen declare their love, liberty, and equality. By then the Old Regime was finished. Now all estates were classified the same
  • declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen

    declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen
    The national assembly developed and adopted a statment of revolutionary ideals, the declaration of the man and of the citizen
  • War for bread

    War for bread
    The women rioted against the rising price of the bread in france. The women were angrily marching through versailles and telling the National Assembly to do something about it.
  • royal escape

    royal escape
    the royal family being the king and the queen try to escape to austria but atr taken prisioners and are beheaded in public
  • new constitution

    new constitution
    The french made a new constitution after beheading the king and the family. they changed the government to a constitutional monarchy, and created the legislative assembly
  • Execution

    The king is beheaded by the guillotine which was made to kill people without them feeling pain
  • war is declared

    Now that France is run by a constitutional monarchy they have to create an army, get organized and, prepare for war against the prussians and austrians
  • storming of tuileries

    The king is placed under arrest by the citizens
  • jacobins take over the government

    The jacobins were a radical political organization that took over the french governmanet and started to advance and give order in france.
  • No more Monarchy

    France left the monarchy behind and started with the idea of a direct democracy
  • A new army

    the french are making an army of 300,00 people because they are weak and can be attacked by austria or purssia
  • robespierre

    roberspierre is the new leader that france will trust and believe in
  • France in dictatorship

    robespierre makes himself a dictator and then is taken prsioner by the people and beheaded by the guillotine
  • Democracy

    France is free from everything and is a free country