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French Revolution

By autumnboothh

  • Louis XVI summons the Estates General

  • Period: to

    French Revolution

    https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~wggray/Teaching/His104/Lectures/Revln-Timeline.html

  • The “Tennis Court Oath”

    a famous quote made on a tennis court by members of the Third Estate in France

  • Storming of the Bastille

    violent attack on the government by the people of France signaled the start of the French Revolution

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

  • National Assembly abolishes the nobility

  • Clergy instructed to swear allegiance to France

  • Pope Pius VI condemns the Civil Constitution of the Clergy

  • Declaration of Pillnitz: Austria & Prussia express support for Louis

  • France declares war on Austria

  • Prussia declares war on France

  • Parisians storm Tuileries palace; end of Louis XVI’s power

  • French Republic proclaimed

  • France declares war on Britain and Netherlands

  • New Constitution proclaimed

  • Republican calendar adopted

  • Marie Antoinette executed

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