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Agricultural Recession forces landowners to increase revenue sources.
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The monarchs expensive lifestyle and an increase in military spending sends France into more debt.
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With a bad harvest and an extreme winter, food becomes more scarce and the lower class becomes more poor.
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A meeting of the Estates-General to discuss a new tax plan. The First and Second Estate have minority power, but the Third Estate has majority. Unfortunately, they meet as individual Estates, so the first two Estates choose what occurs.
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Third Estate is kicked out, but some of the liberal nobles join them. Here the Tennis Court Oath was sworn.
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The national Assembly appoints a committee of thirty members to draft a constitution. The National Assembly proclaims itself the Constituent National Assembly, with full authority and power to decree laws. Demonstrations and speeches take place at the Palais- Royal. The electors of Paris from a standing committee and a citizens' militia.
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The national Assembly appoints a committee of thirty members to draft a constitution. The National Assembly proclaims itself the Constituent National Assembly, with full authority and power to decree laws. Demonstrations and speeches take place at the Palais- Royal. The electors of Paris from a standing committee and a citizens' militia.
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The end of feudalism and serfdom in France was announced by the National Assembly.
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Louis XVI is arrested when trying to flee France
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Louis XVI is killed by guillotine.
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The Reign of Terror sentenced 20,000 to 40,000 people to death. State prisoners were also sentenced to the guillotine
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Churches close and republic armies gain command. The Terror is identified with the revolutionary government, Monte-guards and extremists were guillotined.
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A new constitution is adopted which took effect after a rising in Vendemiare was suppressed by General Napoleon Bonaparte.
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The fall of the Directory ends the French Revolution
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Parliament is purged ruthlessly, and many royalists were sent to the penal colony of French Guinea.
