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king calls Estate General
The King was in trouble.The nobility was not happy with his attempt to tax their estate.Nobility wanted to pass the cost once again on the Third Estate -
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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 Esatate refused on one vote
taking one vote from each state would always causes the the third state outvote because first states and second states are in one side against third states -
Tennis Court Oath
Members of the Third Estate arrived at their assigned meeting hall, Menus Plaisirs, they found it locked against them. The deputies believed that this was a blatant attempt by Louis XVI to end their demands for reform and they were further incensed at the King's duplicity. Refusing to be held down by their King any longer, the deputies did not break up. Instead they moved their meeting to a nearby indoor tennis court. -
The Storming of the Bastille
The mob marched to the Bastille, searching for gun powder and prisoners that had been taken by the King, Louis XVI -
Great Fear Begins
Fearful peasants armed themselves in self-defense. Fear of the peasant revolt was a deciding factor in the decision to abolish feudalism. -
national assembly abolished feudalism
sweeping away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate and the tithes gathered by the First Estate -
Declaration of the rights of man
a fundamental document of the French Revolution, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universa -
Women March to Versailles
The market women ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles for the rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread -
Royal Family's Flight
King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette, unsuccessfully to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution -
New Constitution adopted
One of the basic precepts of the revolution was adopting, but most of the first or second states were dislike it, -
Beginning of Legislative assembly
The Legislative assembly provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making -
Royal family must not be harmed
He believed in that if the French royal family were harmed, then French civilians would be harmed. there was a strong relationship with the civilians and the monarchy -
Storming of the Tuileries palace
French citizens advanced toward the Tuileries Palace to capture King Louis XVI, and the king had to fled to the legislative assembly building -
French Monarchy is abolished
Revolutionary Gov't votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the first Republic.Royal family imprisoned -
French defect foreign invaders
French turns the tide of the war takes the offensive against the invaders -
The execution of king Louis XVI in Paris
The execution represented the end of the monarchy and the new start of French. -
Committee of public safety established
the committee of public Safety assumed its role of protecting the newly established republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion. -
Law of suspects passes
the law ordered the arrest of all enemies of the Revolution, which included nobles, clergy. taking away theri rights. -
End of the reign of terror
Ri=obespierre falls into the terror of reigon, and he was being exacuted in oublic on the day of 27, jul 1794 -
National convention is dissolved
It replaced the Legislative Assembly, which created it in order to draw up a new republican constitution -
Napoleon named first consul
Napoleon takes power into the gover,and stares his empire of Frenchm whcih he was well known as the the first consul -
Coronation of Napoleon
Napoleon gains trust and loves from his people, and uses his strong military straies defeting foreign countrys which makes him the Emperor of French
