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Meeting of the Estates General
It was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates General assembly featuring all 3 estates. It was called by Louis the sixteenth to address France's debt issues. -
Tennis Court Oath
The 3rd estate decided to break away from the Estates General and write up their own constitution. On June 20th, they found themselves locked out of their regular meeting place, so they gathered in an nearby tennis court and said that they would continue to meet until they had established a new constitution for France. -
The Storming of Bastille
When Louis XVI let the Director of General Finance Jacques Necker (a very popular figure in the community) go all mayhem broke out. The rising tension, a scramble for arms broke out, and revolutionaries raided the Paris town hall in pursuit of arms. -
Declaration of Rights
Weeks after the 3rd estates meeting the Declaration of Rights a document that gave the people a due process in judicial matters and established more freedom among the French people. -
The March of Versailles
On this day 7,000 armed women marched from Paris to Versailles chanting "Bread! Bread!" because they were starving while Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette continued to eat like kings and not care about the people's well-being. -
The Reign of Terror
A period of violence inflicted because a rivalry between two political groups the Girondins and Jacobsins and marked executions for "enemies of the revolution." Over 16,000 people died in Paris by the guillotine and another 25,000 in different parts of France. -
Rise of Napoleon and the creation of a Empire
He rose through the different French military levels and then later became the French emperor in 1804 and conquered most of Europe. -
Napoleon's Empire Collapses
Napoleon's empire fell because of these three events Continental System, the Peninsular War, and the invasion of Russia. -
The Congress of Vienna
Started on November 1814 and lasted until June 1815 was a conference of ambassadors of European states to try to create a long term peace plan for Europe after the French Revolutionary Wars.
