Louis XIV spends $100 million to build palace at Versailles
Louis XIV dies leaving France in debt
Enlightenment or Age of Reason reaches its hight
Louis XVI marries Austrian Marie Antoinette
Louis XVI dies also leaving France in debt from wars fought during his reign; Louis XVI takes over. People of France are poor and hungery
Declairation of independence is written and the colonist win American Revolution.
Peasants mad about new tax plan; Louis calls first meeting of Estates-General in 175 years.
The First Estate declared themselfs the National Assembly and made the Tennis Court Oath
Fearing Louis would use force to dismiss the National Assembly, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille; tore it down. The Great Fear startsshortly after.
Declareation of Rights of Man written gauranteeing freedoms of equality, press, religion, and justice.
Royal family attempts to escape but are caught and arrested.
Guillotine is introduced
Jean-Paul Marat, member of radical political group Jacobins, is stabbed in bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
Jacobin leader Maximillien Robespierre is slowly gaining power- wants to erase Frances past; becomes leader of Committee of Public Safety and rules France for the next year like a dictater- His rule was known as the reign of terror.
King Louis is exicuted by guillotine
Marie Antoinette is executed by guillotine
Robespierre is exicuted by guillotine ending radical phase of revolution
