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Nobility forces King Louis XVI to call the Estates General into session
The king was in trouble. The nobilitywas not happy with his attempt to tax their estate. Nobility wanted to pass the cost once again on the Third Estate. -
Estate-General meets in Paris
King Louis XVI calls body into session to approve a new tax on the 3rd estate. Had not met in 175 years. -
3rd Estate refused to abide by the kings one vote for each estate order
Proclaimed themselves legistalture, by establishing the National Assembly. They started making laws for France. -
Tennis Court Oath
Because they were kicked out of the meeting, they met inside a tennis court, and would not leave until they wrote a Constitution for France. -
The Storming of the Bastille
It was a powerful symbol of Revolution. Peoples opressions were showed, and they showed King Louis XVI who was "boss". -
Great Fear Begins
Violence from massive amount of fear, whether be true or not which caused mass chaos. -
National Assembly abolishes Feudalism with August Decrees
Members of the lower classes getting power and influence creating a new government with a good social structure. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Basic principles of the French Revolution - liberty, equality, and faternity. They had realized that all men are created equally, but none of this applied to women. -
Women of Paris March to Versailles for Bread
The women pushed King Louis XVI into moving back into Paris and live in Tuileries palace with his family. -
Royal Family's Flight from Varennes
This pushed the Revolution leader to take bigger and broader steps. Anticlerical measures passed, and churches were seized and with that land they sold it to pay off debt. -
New Constitution adopted
They created the Legislative Assembly once the constitution was adopted, which helped gained broad voting rights, but help gained them a sense of power. -
Beginning of Legislative Assembly
This caused the restriction of power of the monarchy, and with no power it caused the royal family to leave but they eventually got caught and returned. -
Brunswick Manifesto warns that Royal family must not be harmed or else...
It angered the French even more believing the wealthy is still opressing the people. -
Storming of the Tuileries Palace
Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and their children get thrown into prison, and are thought of as commoners from now on. The Legislative Assembly is powerless, and a new election of legislature is put into place with a radical form. -
French Monarchy is officially abolished
Revolutionary Gov't votes to abolish the monarcy and establish the first Republic. Royal family improsined. -
French debate foreign invaders (Austria and Prussia) who are attempting to preserve the monarchy.
France turns the tide of the war and takes the offensive against the invaders. -
The execution of King Louis XVI in Paris
The king was put to trial and executed, soldiers lined the streets, tried to give a speech of innonce some people were basically seen as savages. But the French viewed it as sense of liberty. -
Committee of Public Safety Established
This committee helped to manage the military defense, and there was a period of changes with the government, that lead to much instability. -
Law of Suspects passes - Beginning of the Reign of Terror in France
This allowed the arrest of anyone who was suspected of being against the government. People who acted against the government were called Revolutionaries. -
End of the Reign of Terror- execution of Robespierre
The actions caused through the Reign of Terror resulted in 17,000 deaths. Most of them were unnecessary along with being cruel and harsh. -
National Convention is dissolved and the creation of the Directorate
The Directorate was corrupt, and caused more corruption throughout this time, and trobules kept increasing. This ended with a government that had she same qualities of Old Order. -
Napolean named First Consul
It was a forced transfer of power not consents by the French people. They wanted stability and peace that Napolean promised. -
Coronation of Napolean Bonaparte as Emperor of France
Napolean Bonaparte started conquering more and more places in Europe, causing war trhoughout and more land to have power over.
