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Louis XVI calls for the Estates General to meet.
Estates General, -
Louis XVI calls for the National Assembly to meet to create a constitution
The Estates-General, convened by Louis XVI to deal with France's financial crisis, assembled on May 5, 1789. Its members were elected to represent the estates -
Representatives from the three Estates meet at Versailles
Mirabeau and Abbe Sieyes. -
Third Estate takes the Tennis Court Oath
On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath (French: Serment du Jeu de Paume) in the tennis court which had been built in 1686 for the use of the Versailles palace. -
Louis XVI has the Third Estate locked out of the Estates General meeting
On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath (French: Serment du Jeu de Paume) in the tennis court which had been built in 1686 for the use of the Versailles palace. -
The people of Paris storm the Bastille
What time period was storming of the Bastille?
Intro. On 14 July 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed. -
The women of Paris arrest Louis XVI and take him back to Paris
An unsuccessful attempt to escape Paris by King Louis XVI of France, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family during the night of June 20-21, 1791