French Revolution Timeline

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  • The Estates General

    King Louis XIV Called a meeting between the estates to get a new tax passed because of the debt the country had accumulated.
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    Moderates Phase

    The beginning phase of the French Revolution

  • The National Assembly

    A meeting where the estates disagreed on how to vote over the issues. The third estate wanted a vote by head so each persons vote counted, while the others wanted a vote by order to easily stop reforms from being made.

  • The Tennis Court oath

    The third estate was locked out of the national assembly meeting room, so they assembled at a tennis court and made a new constitution.

  • The Storming of the Bastille

    The revolutionarys revolted by attacking the old prison and stealin weapons.

  • The Great Fear

    The event where the revolutionaries stormed the houses of the very wealthy, kicked them out, and took all their possestions.

  • Feudalism Abolished

    The aristocracy gave away their privelages in hopes that they could calm all the revolts that were happening.

  • The Declaration of the rights of Man

    A document that was similar to enlightenment philosophies that emphasized mans equality and their rights they had.

  • March on Versailles

    The Revolutionarys take Louis XIV from Versailles and force him to sign the declaration of the rights of man.

  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy

    The Church and clergy was made under the control of the government. Citizens got to elect the clergy.

  • France Goes to War Against Austria

    France declared war against Austria whom they weren't friendly with, and also Frances ally Prussia.

  • Mobs from Paris attack the Tuileries

    The mobs in Paris attacked the tuileries where the king was being held.
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    The Radicals Phase

    The Middle of the revolution

  • The September Massacres

    Revolutionaries got nervous that prisoners in Paris would try to revolt, so they and many other nobles were killed during this period.

  • The execution of Louis XIV

    The revoulutionaries, with influence from the Jacobins, Guillotined their king.
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    Counter Revolutionary phase

    The last part of the revolution

  • Napoleon becomes Consul

    Napoleon used his success as a general and leader to deal his way into power in the French Government.

  • Napoleon ends the H.R.E

    Napoleon ended the holy romanempire along with its electing of popes to solidify his absolute power.

  • The Battle of Waterloo

    Napoleons army was sot down by their own cannons in retreat from this battle. The Treaty of Paris was forced to be signed and Napoleon was eventually exiled (for a second time) to his death.