French Revolution

  • Representatives from the three Estates meet at Versailles

  • Louis XVI calls for the Estates General to meet

  • Louis XVI calls for the National Assembly to meet and create a constitution

  • Louis XVI had the Third Estate locked out of the Estates General meeting

  • Third Estate takes the Tennis Court Oath

  • The people of Paris storm the Bastille

  • The women of Paris arrest Louis XVI and take him back to Paris

  • Reign of terror begins

  • Directory takes power in France

  • Napoleonic Era Begins