French History 1788-1816

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  • Estates General convenes

    They discuss the Third Estate
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    French History

  • Third Estate declares themselves as the National Assembly

  • Tennis Court Oath

  • Great Fear

    Rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate

  • National Assembly changes to National Constituent Assembly

  • Decleration of the Rights of Man

    Proclaiming liberty, equality, the inviolability of property, and the right to resist oppression.

  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy

    Reorganization of the church

  • New French Constitution

  • Louis XVI tries to flee France and is brought back to Paris

  • End of French monarchy

  • France declares war on Austria

  • French revolutionaries rose and occupied Tuileries Palace

  • New assembly "National Convention" meets

  • Louis XVI is executed

    condemned for treason

  • Maximum is introduced

    taxed the rich, brought national assistance to the poor and to the disabled

  • Mary Antoinette is executed

    Convicted of treason like Louis XVI

  • Wars of the Vendée

    the “federalist” risings in Normandy and in Provence

  • 2nd and 3rd Partitions of Poland

  • Reign of Terror ends

    which entailed the arrest of at least 300,000 suspects, 17,000 of whom were sentenced to death and executed

  • Council of Ancients begins

    National Convention places power with them

  • Napoleon crushes rebellion of royalists

  • France Annexes the Papal States

  • Second Coalition is formed

  • Bonparte becomes first "consul"

    he abolishes the directory

  • Haitian Revolution agains French Rule