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Meeting of Estates
A meeting of the Estates-General was called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan. It includes the First and Second Estate (Nobility/Landowners and Clergy) and the Third Estate (lower class), which had more members but were poor. There's a discussion about meeting as all Estates or collectively to vote. Meeting collectively gives the Third Estate a decided majority while meeting as individual Estates give the smaller upper estates the power. They go for the latter. -
Tennis Court Oath
The Third Estate is kicked and meet on the tennis court. A few of the liberal nobles and many clergy join them and swear the Tennis Court Oath: "We won't separate until constitutional regime was established." -
King
The king agrees to their demands - the Tennis Court Oath, but also surrounds his palace with guards. -
July 7th-13th
The National Assembly appoints a committee of thirty members to draft a constitution. The National Assembly proclaims itself the Constituent National Assembly, with full authority and power to decree laws. Demonstrations and speeches take place at the Palais-Royal. The electors of Paris form a standing committee and a citizens' militia. -
Fall of Bastille
The storming and fall of the Bastille. -
July 17 - August 3
The period of the Grande Peur. Peasants start robbing and burning some of the mansions of the rich and burn records of money owned. -
Declaration of Rights
The Declaration of the Rights of Man was issued by the National Assembly. -
Women Killing It
The women of Paris invade Versailles. Parisians, led by a large number of women march upon Versailles and force the Royal Family back to Paris, where they take up residence at the Tuileries. Louis XVI is considered by many a "prisoner" in Paris. The Assembly, still in Versailles, declares, in the spirit of constitutional monarchy, its inseparability from the king. -
HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK LOUIS
Louis XVI and his family were arrested while trying to flee from France. -
War on Austria
France declared war on Austria. It's believed that Austria is intending to invade to help the king regain the monarchy since the queen was from Austria. -
Guillotine
Louis XVI sentenced to the guillotine. -
God is Gone
Churches are closed. The republican armies were now in command, and the Terror became identified with ruthless and centralized revolutionary government, Any dissidence was classified as counter revolutionary, and Monteguards and extremists were guillotined early in 1974. Robespierre tries to associate it with virtue and make the republic a morally united patriotic community. -
The END
The fall of the Directory heralds the end of the French Revolution.