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Convention of General Estates and Tennis Court Oath
The French Revolution began in 1789 with the convocation of the Estates-General in May. The first year of the Revolution saw members of the Third Estate proclaiming the Tennis Court Oath.The Oath signified the first time that French citizens formally stood in opposition to Louis XVI, and the National Assembly's refusal to back down forced the king to make concessions. The Oath also inspired a wide variety of revolutionary activity in the months afterwards, ranging from rioting across the French -
The storming of the Bastille
The storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France on the morning of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. While the prison only contained seven inmates at the time of its storming, its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution. -
Declaration of the Rights of man and the Citizen
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. Influenced by the doctrine of "natural right", the rights of man are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself. -
Women's march on Versailles
The march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris who, were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread. The market women and their various allies grew into a mob of thousands, and marched to the Palace of Versailles. The crowd besieged the palace and in a violent confrontation they successfully pressed their demands upon King Louis XVI.The next day, the crowd compelled the king, his family, and most of the French Assembly to return with them to Paris -
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The September Massacers
The September Massecers were a wave of mob violence which overtook Paris during the French Revolution. By the time the massacers subsided, half the prisons population of Paris had been executed, about 1,200 trapped prisoners which included many womwn and young boys. They tought these people would help the Austrian and Purssian army's -
Execution of King Louis XVI
He was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of high treason, and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. In seizing with violence the most virtuous of Kings, they dragged him under the axe of the guillotine, which with one stroke severed his head from his body. All this passed in a moment. then they immediately seized the head, and showed it to the people as he walked round the scaffold. -
Reign of Terror
The committee of public safety came under th control of Maximilien Robespierre, and the Jacobins unleashd the reign of terror. At least 16,594 people died under the guillotine after they were acused of counter-revolutionary activies. -
The Thermidorian Reaction
On July the 26 Robespiere gives a speech illustrating new plots and conspiracies. He then alienated of the CPS and CGS but did not say spacific names. Many of the members felt threatned by his implications. -
Arrest Of Robespierre
On July 24 the national convention arrests pobespierre and declare him an outlaw. -
End of The Riegn of terror
On July 28 1794 Robespierre is guillotined without trail in The Place de la Revolution. This ended the Rirgn of terror. -
The Directory
This was the government that took over after the death of robespierre. This government symbolized Nationalism(a sense of unity. It had an army with a conscribed forced military service( An army based on Merit, not birth. Rise of Napolean Bonaparte to consul -
End of Revolution
In 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte staged the 18 brumaire of the year vIII which installed the consulate. This led to bonaparte's dictatorship and his proclamation as emperor,
