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Starvation and Famine
The famine of 1788 causes an increase in the price of cereals and bread, causing unrest and discontent -
Convacation of the Estates-General
Louis XVI fixed the convening of the General Assembly for the following year. -
Start of the French Revolution
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The franch revolution
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Estates-General
The States-General meet at Versailles under the chairmanship of the king. Immediately raises the question of the vote: it came to deciding whether to vote for or status for the head. In the first case the nobility and clergy would have had a majority in the second case the majority would be affected to the third State -
Tennis Court Oath
Since the king took his time and did not want to decide on the issue of voting, the deputies of the third layer gathered in a gym where we played the ball games and vowed not to separate before he had given a parliamentary constitution in France and, to this end, proclaimed themselves the National Constituent assembly -
Storming of the Bastille
The contradictory behaviour of the king sparked the anger of the people and a crowd of armed men went to the fortress of the Bastille and assaulted leaving behind 100 dead with this act, with which the revolution had made a breakthrough, it is usual to start the French Revolution -
Anti-feudal revolt
National Assembly entirely destroy the feudal system, after hundreds of thousands of peasants were launched against monasteries and castles burning documents that allowed the lords to demand rents and labour services. With this document were abolished tax liens served all personal and ecclesiastical tithes. The ancient regime was so determined -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
This document defined the principles on which it wanted to set up the constitution. The paper was inspired by the American Declaration of Independence and in fact began with these words: "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights" -
Civil constitution of the Clergy
The Constituent Assembly decides the confiscation and sale of ecclesiastical property. The following year, the clergy was framed in the state through the Civil Constitution of the Clergy -
Flight to Varennes
The king disguised as a pet escapes and comes in Varennes, on the border with Belgium, but was recognized and arrested. It starts, the idea of transforming the Republic in France -
The massacre of the Field of Mars
Fogliani proclaim martial law and the Fayette order to fire on the people in the field of Mars reunite killing 50 people -
French constituition
The constitution of 91 represents the transition from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy. Are left to the king certain prerogatives, including the power to veto laws proposed by the assembly of all -
Execution of Luis XVI
Found guilty of high treason, King Louis XVI was condemned to be beheaded.
