French revolution

  • Military and financial aid for USA

    The declaration of independence of the USA and its constitution defended the inalieable right of the citizenes, separation of powers, equally and freedom of all the individuals and right to choose a goverment.
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    Phases of the french revolution

    The main threat for the Revolution was that the king and privileged classes did not acept the changes proposed by the National Assembly for a great social equality.
  • The Tennis Court Oath

    Representatives of the 3rd estate met in the Tennis Court and proclamed themseleves the National Assembly. They swore to be assambled to write a constitution for french men. The Assambly was Supported by people in Paris.
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    Economic and Financial crisis

    The main causes of the economcal crisis are related to bad harvests, rise in prices, lack of money...
  • Enlightment

    The burgeoisie took the enlightenment prinples to defeat the absolutism and the Estates of the realm. New forms to organize the society and the goverment With the french revolution.
  • Estates General and votes per estate

    Each Estate in the Estates General received one vote as a whole group. The First and Second Estates often agreed on issues and would out-vote the Third Estate, two to one.
  • Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen.

    The national Convention Assembly made some legal reform: feudal rights were abolizhed (pesantry) and teh Declaration of the Rights of Man and the citizen.
  • The great fear

    The Great Fear was a wave of panic that swept the French countryside in late July and early August 1789. Fearful of plots by aristocrats to undermine the budding French Revolution, peasants and townspeople mobilized, attacking manorial houses.
  • Constitution

    Constitutional monarchy, popular sovereignty, separation of powers limited male suffrage (men with certain wealth, in a census)
  • The storm of the Bastille.

    The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, when revolutionary insurgents attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armoury, fortress and political prison known as the Bastille.
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    Constitutional monarchy

    Moderate bourgeoisie proporsals: end of the Ancient Regime, a parlament by census suffrage and a constitution.
  • The flight to Varenes

    The royal Flight to Varennes during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant event in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, Queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris to Montmédy, where the King wished to initiate a counter-revolution by joining up with royalist troops.
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    Legislative Assambly

    New constitution: end of privileges, guilds...
    The members sat aqcording to their idealogy.
    The king had the right of vote.
    The National Guard was created to defend the Revolution.
    The Austrians and the aristocracy were a real threat.
    The solve the financial problem: church properties were sold.
    Civil Constitution: established the separation Church-state. Worried about the actions of the National Assembly. the king and the queen, looked for help outside, specially in Austria.
  • Preventive war

    France declared preventive war on Austria that invaded France
  • The execution of the king

    King Louis XVI was sentenced to death by guillotine by the revolutionary government of the Convention, on January 21, 1793, declared guilty of "conspiracy against public liberty and attack on national security."
  • The terror

    Was a climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution which saw the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary 'suspects' between September 1793 and July 1794.
  • Jacobin Convention

    Was the most extermist period. It was written a new constitution that recognised a universal male sufrage. The executive power was applied by the Committee of public safety led by Maximiliane Robespierre
  • The Girondin Convention

    The National Convention voted to abloish the monarchy and make France a republic. The radical Jacobins demanded that Louis should be judged for treason. It was proved that Louis was plotting with foreign troops to crush the revolution.
  • The social republic

    Some nations disliked the spread of Revolution (mainly Austria anad Prussia) Known events the common people (sans-culottes) attacked the Tuileries Palace and took the royal family. The Republic was declared New assembly is presented, elected by universal male suffrage: the National Convention
  • Socyal Republic

    Radical bourgeoisie (sopported by popular classes), republic, more equality (universal male suffrage + social laws)
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    Conservative Republic

    New moderated liberalism
  • Constitution

    A new goverment, of more moderate burgeoisie: the Directory. It included an elected legislative and a executive branch with five directors, to avoid dictatorship.