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King Louis XVI is now in rule of france.
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France declared war on British aiding the united states with soldiers and supplies
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an assembly of representatives from all three estates to aprove a new tax in Versailles.
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The delegates of the Third Estate agreed to Sieye's idea by majority. National Assembly passed laws and reforms in the name of the French people.
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The third estate delegates found themselves locked out of their meeting room, so they broke down the door of an indoor tennis court and drew up their new constituiton there.
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a mob searching for gunpowder and arms stormed the Bastille, a Paris prison. This act became a great symbolic act of revolution to the French people.
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The beginning of the Great Fear rolled in to france and it was a wave of sensless panic. Peasants became outlaws and stormed noble's houses
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King Louis and the royal family make an attempt to flee france to austrian netherlands.
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King louis XVI accepte the national assembly's new constitiuiton for France which created a limited constituitonal monarchy.
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France didn't like what was going on and decided to declare war.
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The legislative assembly was set aside and called for a new legislature, the new body went into office september 21.
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King Louis XVI role of king was reduced to citizen and prisioner and guided by radical Jacobins he was tried for treason.
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King Louis XVI was guilty of treason and by a very close vote was sentenced to death.
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Robespierre is elected leader, and governed france virtually a dictator.
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Members of the national convention turned on him and demanded his arrest and execution, this ended the reign of terror.
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Napoleon take the leadership role of first consul and assumed powers of a dictator