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French Revolution
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Louis the XVI calls a meeting of the Estates General
Each of the three estate clergy, nobility, and the third estate, or common presented its particular grievances to the crown. -
The Tennis Court Oath/creation of the National Assembly
In Versailles, France, the deputies of the Third Estate, which represent commoners and the lower clergy, meet on the Jeu de Paume, an indoor tennis court, in defiance of King Louis XVI's order to disperse. In these modest surroundings, they took a historic oath not to disband until a new French constitution had been adopted. -
Bastille
The peasants of Paris were afraid Louis was going to use military to end the Revolution before it started. -
The Great Fear
In early 1789 the king's financial minister Jacques Necker warned that the countryside risked a general uprising, and in April, peasant uprisings were increasingly organised and anti-seigneurial in character. -
The creation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man, in order that this declaration, being constantly before all the members of the Social body, shall remind them continually of their rights and duties -
The Reign of Terror/The Committee of Public Safety
In the weeks after the execution of the king, the internal and external wars in France continued to grow. -
Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
The day when Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were killed because they were terrible at ruling so peasants decided to kill them. -
Thermidorian Reaction/Creation of the National Convention
The Thermidorian Reaction was a revolt in the French Revolution against the excesses of the Reign of Terror. It was triggered by a vote of the National Convention -
Creation of the Directory
The French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years, from November 1795 to November 1799.
