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Nobility forces King Louis XVI to call the Esates General into session
The king was in trouble. The nobility was not happy with his attempt to tax their esate. Nobility wanted to pass the cost once again on the Third Estate -
Estate-General meets in Paris
King Louis XVIcalls body into session to approve a new tax on the 3rd Estate. Had not met in 175 years. -
3rd Esate refused to abide by the kings one vote for each estate order
Heard rumors that the king hired foreigh soldiers to punish them. -
Tennis Court Oath
Pledge signed by 576 out of 577 people. Joseph Martin Dauch didn't sign because it wasn't sanctioned by the king. -
The Storming of the Bastille
3rd Estaters invade the Bastille for cannons and guns to over throw the King for spending all of France's money. -
Great Fear Begins
Peasants armed themselves in self-defense and attacked manor houses -
National Assembly abolishes Fedalism with August Decrees
Eliminated foudal deus that peasants owed; landowners. Eliminated first Estates legal privilages -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Defines the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal -
Women of Paris March to the Versailles for Bread
Mob of women grew into thousands, ransacked the city for weapons and marched into the palace of versailles. because bread was high priced and there was a scarcity. -
Royal Family's Flight from Varennes
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and the family try to escape Paris in order to start a counter-revolution -
New Constitution adopted
Established popular sovereignty -
Beginning of Legislative Assembly
Provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law making -
Brunswick Manifesto warns that Royal family must not be harmed or else...
50,000 troops from Australia were sent to France borders -
Storming of the Tuileries Palace
Damanding of abolition from monarchy. 100 out of 950 Swiss gaurds survived. -
French Monarchy is offially abolished
Revolutionary Gov't votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the first Republic. Royal family imprisoned -
French defeat 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
Killed with the guillotine -
Committee of Public Safety Established
Protects the republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion -
Law of Suspects passes - Beginning of the Reign of Terror in France
Individual freedoms which led to revolutionary paranoia -
End of Reign of Terror - execution of Robespierre
Death toll <10,000 period of violence. 16,594 deaths in Paris -
National Conention is dissolved and the creation of the Directore
Men who owned property were the only ones alowed to vote. Passed financial reforms, improved trade; although wasn't an effective government. -
Napoleon named First Consul
Napoleon became dictator. The people willingly gave up some freedoms so that Napoleon could bring peace etc. -
Coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor of France
Wanted to tell the world that he took his power, no one gave it to him.
