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The Creation of the National Assembly
National Assembly, French, any of various historical French parliaments or houses of parliament. From June 17 to July 9, 1789, it was the name of the revolutionary assembly formed by representatives of the Third Estate. -
The Tennis Court Oath
the tennis court oath was an assembly of the French Estates, which called them the national assembly, and they vowed not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require. -
Storming of the Bastille
The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. The prison contained just seven inmates at the time of its storming but was a symbol of abuses by the monarchy; its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution. -
The National Assembly Abolishes Feudalism
The National Constituent Assembly, acting on the night of August 4th1789, announced, "The National Assembly abolishes the feudal system entirely." It abolished both the seigniorial rights of the Second Estate (the nobility) and the tithes gathered by the First Estate (the Catholic clergy). -
The Declaration of the 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. -
Womens March on Versailles
On this day in 1789, an angry mob of nearly 7,000 working women, armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets, marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles in what was to be a pivotal event in the intensifying French Revolution. -
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is published allowing the French government control of the Church. Due to badly needed money, the government starts to sell church land. That caused the immediate subordination of the Catholic Church in France to the French government. -
Flight to Varennes
The Flight to Varennes was when King Louis XVI and his wife tried to escape Paris to initiate a counter-revolution. -
War between France and Austria
On Apr. 20, 1792, France declared war on Austria. The French armies lacked organization and discipline, and many noble officers had emigrated. The allied Austrian and Prussian forces under Charles William Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick, quickly crossed the frontier and began to march on Paris. -
The September Massacres
The September massacres were a mass of killings during the month of September. It is sometimes called the "First Terror" of the french revolution. -
The Execution of King Louis XVI
One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. -
The Creation of the Committee of Public Saftey
The Committee of Public Safety was set up on April 6, 1793, during one of the crises of the Revolution, when France was beset by foreign and civil war. The new committee was to provide for the defense of the nation against its enemies, foreign and domestic, and to oversee the already existing organs of executive government. There were 12 members on the committee, which were elected by the National Convention for a period of one month and were eligible for reelection. -
The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat, born on May 24, 1743,near a small town in Switzerland, he died July 13, 1793, in Paris, France, French politician, physician, and journalist, a leader of the radical Montagnard faction during the French Revolution. He was assassinated in his bath by Charlotte Corday, a young Girondin conservative. -
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The Reign of Terror
The Revolutionary government decided to make “Terror” the order of the day and to take harsh measures against those suspected of being enemies of the Revolution (nobles, priests, hoarders). In Paris a wave of executions followed. In the provinces, representatives on mission and surveillance committees instituted local terrors. The Terror had an economic side -
Execution of the Queen
Born on November 2, 1755, in Austria, Marie Antoinette helped provoke the popular unrest that led to the French Revolution and to the overthrow of the monarchy in August 1792. She became a symbol of the excesses of the monarchy and is often credited with the famous quote "Let them eat cake," although there is no evidence she actually said it. As consort to Louis XVI, she was beheaded nine months after he was, on October 16, 1793, by order of the Revolutionary tribunal. She was 37 years old. -
The Execution of Maximillian Robespierre
The Execution of Maximilian Robespierre came to symbolize both the brutality and idealism of the French Revolution. He was described by his contemporaries as either a tyrannical dictator or a revolutionary democratic leader.he died by a guillotine from all of the chaos. -
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The Creation of the Directory
The Directory, group of five men who held the executive power in France according to the constitution of the year III (1795) of the French Revolution. They were chosen by the new legislature, by the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients; each year one director, chosen by lot, was to be replaced. -
Napoleon Gains Control
When the French Revolutionary ended, Napoleon Bonaparte makes Paris a dictatorship. The government puts him in the spot as the dictator. As the government was Bankrupt, Napoleon founded a way to get the government more money and it was by taxing the people of Paris.
