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National Assembly
The Third Estate was not happy with the Estates General and formed the National Assembly when joined by the First and Second Estates to form a true representative body. This was the first act of the revolution. -
Storming the Bastille
An attack of a Paris prison by Parisian radicals to get weapons to defend themselves and the newly formed National Assembly from the King. -
The Great Fear
Rumors were spread that nobles were hiring outlaws to attack peasants. The peasants retaliated by attacking manor houses and the nobles. -
DOROMAC
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was a document guaranteeing Natural Rights. Life, liberty, and Fraternity became the battle cry of the revolution. -
The Ladies
A march on the Palace of Versailles where the women demanded bread. They broke into the palace, killed the guards, and threatened the queen. -
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
The State seized Church land which upset the French people further. -
Flight to Varennes
King Louis and his family fled to Austrian controlled lands in disguise. -
Constitutional Monarchy
A limited constitutional monarchy is created with the approval of the King -
War
France declares war with Austria and Prussia because they declared Louis should return as an absolute monarch -
September Massacres
Mobs storm Paris and murder over 1000 prisoners afraid they are going to join and aid the foreign invaders -
National Convention
Dissolved the Constitution of 1791 and the Legislative Assembly and create a new constitution with the National Assembly as legislative body -
Death of Louis XVI
Louis is found guilty of treason and executed via guillotine -
Death of Marat
Stabbed to death in his bathtub by a member of a rival political party who was hoping to stop the bloodshed -
Reign of Terror
Enemies of the revolution were executed by the guillotine -
Directory
New constitution was drafted by the National Convention
