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FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Meeting of the Estates General
Meeting of the Estates General were the three states met to analyze France´s problems is called by Louis XVI (16) in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan. Estates-General: The first assembly were the delegates from the three states atended to analze the problems of France. -
Voted to establish the National Assembly
Voted to establish the National Assembly in effect proclaming the end of absolute monarchy and the beginning of representative government.-leads to the Tennis court Oath. -
Storming of the Bastille
Storming of the Bastille. On July 14, a mob searching for gunpowder and arms stormed the Bastille, a Paris prison. The mob overwhelmed the guard and seized control of the building. The angry attackers hacked the prison commander and several guards to death, and then paraded around the streets with the dead men´s heads on pikes. -
Old regime, feudalism, estates=DEAD
Throught the night of August 4 1789, noblemen made grand speeches, declaring their love of liberty and equality. By morning, the Old Regime was dead, meaning Feudalism has ended, divisions between estates ended to. -
Bread Riot
In October 1789, thouthand of Parisian women rioted over the rising price of bread. Brandishing knives, axes, and other weapons, the women marched on Versailles. First they demanded that the National Assembly take action to provide bread. Then they turned their anger on the king and queen. -
Flight to Varennes
The royal Flight to Varennes during the night of 20th of June 1791, was a significant episode in the French Revolution during which King Louis XVI of France, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris. Emigres: Nobles and others who had fled France hoped to undo the revolution and restore the old regime. -
King louis XVI ascended throne, is guillotined
January 21, 1793: King Louis ascended the French throne, and was executed with the guillotine. guillotine: A method of killing people in a “humane way” where a heavy blade was released to the person´s neck, slicing it emidiately. -
Jacobins order a draft of 300,000 people
February, 1793: To reinforce the French army, Jacobin leaders in the Convention took an extreme step. At their urging, they ordered a draft of 300,000 French Citizens between ages 18-40. Jacobins: Jacobins were the people who were mostly involved in the governmental changes in september 1792 qne were part of a radical political organization. -
Robespierre is arrested & executed
Members of National Convention turn on Robespierre, demanding his arrest and and execution. The Reighn of Terror, the radical phase of the French Revolution, ended on July 28, 1794 when Robespierre went to the guillotine. Reign of Terror”: The dictarorship of Maximiliam Robespierre was feared by the people because he was the leader of the Jacobins, and everyone against him was in risk of being killed. -
New plan of government
during the year 1795: Moderate leaders in th National Convention drafted a new plan of government. It placed power firmly in the hands of the upper middle classand called for a two-house legislature and an excecutive body of five men, known as the Directory. Some of them were corrupt and made themselves rich at the country´s expense. This was the time period for their troubled country to have time for order.
