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The Estates-General was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm.
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The Tennis Court Oath was a an event during the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General
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The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the morning of 14 July 1789. The medieval prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris.
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The estates of the realm were the broad social orders of the hierarchically conceived society.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789.
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Riots for food.
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The royal Flight to Varennes was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, his queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris.
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The National Constituent Assembly dissolved itself on 1 October 1791. Upon Robespierre's motion it had decreed that none of its members should be capable of sitting in the next legislature.
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The Legislative Assembly declares war on Austria and Russia
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In Revolutionary France, the Legislative Assembly votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the First Republic.
