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Meeting of the Estates General
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Fall of the Bastille
The angry unemployed and hungry Parisians mob attacked and king louis surrendered. -
Tennis Coart Oath
Voted to establish the National Assembly - leads to the tennis court oath. -
French Revolution Starts
Revolution starts due to unhappy 3rd estate was very unhappy with the over taxation -
Feudalism is ended
divisions between estates ended. -
Decleration of Rights of Man
The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man, in order that this declaration, being constantly before all the members of the Social body, shall remind them continually of their rights and duties; in order that the a -
Legislative Assembly
legislature of France from 1 October 1791 to September 1792 during years of the French Revolution. provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between. -
Execution of Louis XVI
The rebellion has been going very strong, and then King Louis XVI tried to flee the country. -
16,000 people were guillotined.
Many radicals were executed along with moderates. Most leaders of the French Revolution were now either dead or had fled the republic. The execution of popular Committee member George-Jacques Danton and Robespierre proclaiming himself as the leader of a new religion of the Supreme Being caused much resentment. -
Reign of Terror by Jacobins
Marie Antoinette was killed by the guillotuine. People mostly wanted to kill her because she was spending too much money on herself.
