French Revolution; Julia Harrison, Jaden Jenkins, Ashlynn Skerbinc, TJ Brown, Justin Walsh

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  • The Enlightenment Begins

    Started by philosophers and was a cultural movement that went throughout the 18th century. The movement was to reform society into less relying on religion and more on reason.

  • House of Bourbon

    House of Bourbon is a European house of freench orgin; a branch of the capitain dynasty.

  • Marie Antoinett

    She was the 15th znd penultmate child of holy emporer frincis she married louis.

  • Guillotin

    During the 1700's, executions in France were public events where entire towns gathered to watch. A common execution method for a poor criminal was quartering, where the prisoner's limbs were tied to four oxen, then the animals were driven in four different directions ripping the person apart. Upper-class criminals could buy their way into a less painful death by hanging or beheading.

  • The 3 estates

    Clergy
    Nobility
    commoners
    First estate divided into hiigher and lower clergy
    Second estate was the French nobility
    Third estate was divided into urban and rural.

  • Changes

    Began in Great Britian
    Average income grew
    Spread throughout western Europe, Northern America, Japan and eventually throughout the world
    Major turning point in history

  • Seven years war (French and Indian war)

    It took place between 1756 and 1763. It afffected Europe, North and Central America, West Africa , India ,and the Phillipeans.

  • Maximilien de Robespierre is Born

  • Development of Jacobins Club

    The famous and influential club during French Revolution. Known for the implementation of "The Reign of Terror" and was estimated to have 420,000 members.

  • March Of Versailles

    Began among women in the places of paris on the morning of may 14 1789.

  • Storming of Bastille

    Ctizens suffering from the extreme taxations attacked the medieval fortress/prison, creating fires and a turning point of the French Revolution.

  • declaration of rights of man

    the represenitive of the french people, constituted into a natonal assembly.

  • national assembly

    The political debate and revolutionary law-making.

  • The Committee for public safety.

    Created in April 1793 by national convention it assumed its role of protecting newly establised rewly establishe republuc against foriegn attach.

  • Reign of terror.

    In June 1793, the French Revolution enters its most violent and turbulent phase when the Jacobins seized control of the National Convention from the more moderate Girondins and instituted a series of radical measures, including the establishment of a new calendar and the eradication of Christianity. They also unleashed the bloody Reign of Terror (“la Terreur”), a 10-month period in which suspected enemies of the revolution were guillotined by the thousands. Many of the killings were carried out

  • Maximilien de Robespierre is Guillotined

    After being arrested for rebellion he was guillotined without trial and was said to be a "bloody dictator", but was called "incorruptable" by supporters and had a big part in "The Reign of Terror." He died at the age of 36