French Revolution

By cwinters15sjp

  • Estates General Meets

    1st, 2nd, and 3rd, estates meet to discuss money problems and discuss the rights of the people

  • National Assembly Meets

    3rd estate feels unfair treatement in the Estate General so they meet in secret to discuss public issues

  • Tennis Court Oath

    “never to separate and to meet wherever the circumstances might require until we have establish a sound and just constitution”

  • Storming the Bastille

    Urban Workers and bourgeoisie break in to get gun powder to protect themselves from rumors of the king going to attack them. Mob decapitates guards and free seven prisoners

  • Abolition of Fuedalism

    Nobles begin to give up some in order to keep some (social contract)

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

    Enlightenment document outlining goals of National Assembly (natural rights) lays out what they hope to achieve

  • Bread March

    Parisian (fishing) women march twelve miles out to Versailles. Broke into Versailles and kidnapped king and brought him to Paris and made him stay there

  • Jews get Equal Rights

  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy

  • Period: to

    Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen

  • Children of Black Freedman in Colonies are Granted Equal Rights to Whites

  • Flight to Varennes

  • Declaration of Pilnitz

  • Constitution of 1791

  • Legislative Assembly Elected

  • France Declares War on Austria

  • European Monarchs Declare War on France

  • Louis XVI Arrested by Legislative Assembly

  • The National Convention

    (3rd legislature since 1789 - elected by universal make suffrage)

  • France is Declared a Republic; National Convention elected and writes new constitution

  • Beginning of the French Republican Calendar

    (calendar was begun in 9/23/1793 but “backdated” to the “start of the republic”)

  • Execution of Louis XVI

  • Period: to

    The Vendee Rebellion

  • Comitee of Public Service Created

  • Constitution of 1793 Ratified by National Convention

    (to be suspended in October 1793)

  • The Levee en Masse Decree

    All French men are called to arms v. European monarchs
  • Period: to

    Reign of Terror

  • Adopt French Republican Calendar

    (see 9/22/1793)

  • Execution of Marie Antoinette

  • Period: to

    Reign of Terror

  • Robespierre Executed

  • Consitution of 1795

    (creates the Directory)

  • The Directory is elected

    till Nov 1799

  • Coup of 18 Brumaire