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Meeting of the estates general
In May 5th 1789, the estates general met and from Louis XVI orders because of the financial crisis going on in France. This was the first time the estates general have met since 1614.This leads to the third estate breaking away from the meeting and making their own National assembly. -
Creation off the National Assembly
giving the third estate a legislative and locked the third estate out of the assembly. The third estate made their own assembly and at the end sort of protested and got their way. -
Creation of the National Convention
Assembly that governed France from September 20, 1792 to October 23rd, 1795. The national convention was allected to provide a new constitution for the country. -
Storming of the Bastille
Angry demonstrators took the Bastille which is a fort in Paris where king Louis imprisoned enemies. This battle also sparked and started up the French Revolution -
Declaration of the rights of man and of the Citizen
orginized in the national assembly by the French people because the neglect of rights to the man which caused alot of public clamanaties -
Exucution of the King
After Louis XVI downed the city leading to no jobs and being bankrupt, rioters began to strike and protest and rioters captured him and his family for exucution for the rioters to make there point be heard for new goverment -
Reign of Terror
The time period which alot of riotes occured which was made up by two political partys known as the Girondins and the Jacobins.An extension of civil war and the advance of foreign armies on national territory produced a political crisis in a time period known at the "Reign of Terror" -
coup d'etat
The overthrow of the French goverment and the rise of the French general Napoleon Bonaparte which was apart of the three consuls for the new french goverment.
