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The royal treasury is empty.
Due to the lavish lifestyle and careless spending of the royal family, the royal treasury is empty and the nation is bordering on bankruptcy. This is important because it was the build up to the revolution -
The revolution begins.
The King opens the meeting of the Estates-General with the nobility, clergy andd the third estate. The third estate refuses to meet seperately from the other two estates but are eventually pressured into doing so. Further resentment is harbored. -
The tennis court oath
On the orders of Louis XVI, the meeting hall of the Third Estate is closed and locked. At the suggestion of Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the deputies gather instead in the indoor tennis court, where they swear not to separate until they have given France a new Constitution. This was known as the tennis court oath. -
The National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly.
three days ago, thirty members had convened in order to write the new constitution of france. this is important because the third estate is taking matter into their own hands. -
The Siege and Surrender of the Bastille
A large armed crowd besieges the Bastille, which holds only seven prisoners but has a large supply of gunpowder, which the crowd wants. After several hours of resistance, the governor of the fortress de Launay, finally surrenders; as he exits, he is killed by the crowd. The crowd also kills de Flesselles, the provost of the Paris merchants. This is a symbol of victory and power, and further goes to show the incompentency of the leadership -
The Assembly proclaims freedom of religious opinions.
The assembly abolishes the totalitarian method and allows for people to make their own decisions and form their respective opinion on matters such as religion -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, drafted largely by Lafayette. The Declaration was drafted by the Abbé Sieyès and the Marquis de Lafayette, in consultation with Thomas Jefferson.[2] Influenced by the doctrine of "natural right", the rights of man are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself. It became the basis for a nation of free individuals protected equally by the law. -
Clergy Oath
The Assembly decrees that all members of the clergy must take an oath to the Nation, the Law and the King. A large majority of French clergymen refuse to take the oath. -
The Royal Family flees Paris
The royal Flight to Varennes was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI, his queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution at the head of loyal troops under royalist officers concentrated at Montmédy near the frontier. They escaped only as far as the small town of Varennes, where they were arrested after having been recognized at their previous stop in Sainte-Menehould. -
Storming of the Tuileries; Downfall of the King
The National Guard of the insurrectional Paris Commune and revolutionary fédérés from Marseille and Brittany attack the Tuileries Palace. The King and his family take refuge in the Legislative Assembly. The royal family is imprisoned in the temple. and then king louis XVI is executed a year later on january 21st 1793