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Nobility forces King Louis XVI to call the Estates General into session
The king was in trouble. The nobility was not happy with the 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 third Estate. Had not met in 175 years. -
3rd Estate refused to abide by the kings one vote for each estate order.
The third estate always feels like they have no say so the go against the king and cause an interception of the government in France. -
Tennis court oath
June 20, 1789 National Assembly members take Tennis Court Oath, pledging to create new constitution. -
The storming of Bastille
July 14 Mob of Parisian citizens storms Bastille prison and steals weapons. -
"Great Fear" begins
The period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumors of an aristocratic conspiracy. -
National Assembly abolishes Feudalism with August Decrees
reports of several thousand separate yet related peasant mobilizations poured into Paris from the countryside, majority against the feudal system in Paris. So they worked to end the system with unclear regulations. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The National Assembly recognizes and declares, in the presence and under the conditions of the Supreme. -
Women of Paris March to Versailles for Bread
The march on Versailles's main purpose was to obtain bread and force the price of bread down to where it had been. -
Royal Family's Flight from Varennes
On the 20 June 1791, Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, their children and closest servants fled Paris in secret, hoping to reach the Luxembourg border and to join the Austrian troops there. -
New Constitution adopted
The need for a constitution was almost undisputed in 1789. A constitution was viewed as a cure-all that would heal all the ills of a political system that had become corrupt. Reforming ministers told the monarch that France needed a written constitution to control the function of the state. -
Legislative Assembly
The legislative assembly forms after no one is able to hold power. -
Brunswick Manifesto
Warns that the royal must not be harmed or else -
Storming of the Tuileries
Ending of the French monarchy and terminated any pretence that the royal family were not prisoners of the state. -
French Monarchy is officially 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 monarchy.
France turns the tide of the war and takes the offense against the invaders. -
The execution of King Louis XVI In Paris
One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. -
Committee of Public Safety Established
Political body of the French Revolution that controlled France during the Reign of Terror. It was set up in April 1793 to defend France against its enemies, foreign and domestic. -
Law of Suspects passes beginning of the Reign of Terror in France
A for the creation of revolutionary tribunals to try those who were suspected of treason against the Republic and punish those convicted with death. -
End of the reign of terror- execution of Robespierre
Robespierre was finally accused of dictatorship and tyranny and evicted from the Convention. -
National Convention is dissolved and the creation of the Directorate.
October National Convention is dissolved in favor of five-man executive Directory and two large legislative bodies. -
Napoleon named First Consul.
A new constitution of his own devising legislated a succession to rule for his son, even though he had not yet fathered any children. -
Coronation of Napoloeon Bonaparte as Emporer of France
Napoleon worked hard to centralize France government, and was then awarded as Emporer of France.
