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Estate General convened by King
The First meeting in 175 yrs that the king had announced to have. All Representatives of the each Estate wrote a notebook on this event known as a cahier. -
Tennis Court Oath
This is a result of the king locking the 3rd Estate out of the meeting of the Estate-General. The 3rd Estate where they vowed to stay until they could have representatives to vote. -
Storming of the Bastille
The people of the lower class and 3rd Estate were in desperate momenets and were starving because of the low finances France had. The 3rd Estate demanded change but the King & Queen refused. 60,000 workers stormed the Bastille; some were killed and the king no longer had power to control the situation. -
National Assembly decrees abolition of feudalism
Third Estate verified their own powers and voted themselves to be apart of the National Assembly. After the King ordered closure of the assembly to keep what control he had and the assembly agreed not to seperate until given a constitution. -
Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen
Written by Marquis de LAfayette it was mostly made up of human rights. Giving all people equal rights to whatever race or estate they are. -
Women march for Bread
Rioting over high price and scarcity of bread. The market women grew into a mob of thousands they ransacked the city armary and marched to the royal palace at Versailles -
Abolition of nobility and titiles
The National Assembly decrees that hereditary nobility is forever abolished. A citizen may assume the real name of his family, nor may use the coats of arms. -
Black citizens of French colonies granted equal rights
The society of the Friends of the Blacks was a group of French men and women, mostly white, who were abolishists. In Febuary the assembly deceed thtat all colonial slaves were to be freed -
Beginning of Legislative Assembly
It was driven by two opposing groups which were Constitutional monarchy and Democratic faction. Primarly the moderate members of the Bourgeoise -
Execution of King Louis XVI
He was found guilty of high treason and excuted by guillotine. He was the only king in France to be excuted -
Jacobin Massees Storm the Tuileries Palace
a mob stormed the Tuilerires palace to take King Louis XVI and inprison him. The Swiss guards tried to stop the mob but all were killed in the process and anyone else that tried to hepl the king. Eventually found him in Legislative Assembly and inprisoned him. -
Committee of Public Safety Established
The Committee had gained control over the city after the Reign of terror began to protect from enemies of foregin, dosmestic, and to look out for the governments that already exist. -
Beginning of the reign of terror
A period of time where the French revolutionary war was having political conflict between the political factions of the Girondins and Jacobins. -
End of the Reign of Terror
Robespierre is arrested and excuted ending the phase known as the Terror -
Creation of the Directorate
A body of five Directors that held excutive power in France following the convention and preceeding the Consulate. -
First Consul
Napoleon named him self the " First Consul of the life by himself head of the conservative, authoritarian, autocratic and centrailized republican government of france -
Napoleon Consecrated as Emperor
Napoleon was offered the title to become emperor. He planned his cordonation with plan and had his ceremony in two parts from Tuileries and ended in Notre Dame.
