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The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General. -
Louis XVI opened the session with a speech in which he reviewed the circumstances that had led to the convocation, and what he expected from the Estates General. -
When the Third Estate gathered to meet on June 20th, they found the doors to their meeting hall locked and guarded. Fearing a royalist conspiracy, the Third Estate responded by gathering in a nearby tennis court. There they pledged not to disband until the nation had drafted and implemented a constitution -
The Third Estate wanted to have equal rights to the other two estates. Sent forces to arrest Third Estate after they were locked out of their meeting place and relocated to the Tennis Courts. Once Louis XVI heard this, he sent forces to arrest them. -
Peasants all across France were struggling under his rule and sided with the revolution more than with Louis XVI. The revolutionaries forced Louis XVI and his family to return to Paris and removed the little remaining authority he still had. -
He ordered the three estates to meet together as the National Assembly and vote, by population, on a constitution for France.
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a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob -
After a long period of debate about how the new constitution will work, the French Revolution takes a radical turn when revolutionaries arrest the King -
Following the King’s execution, France goes to war with various European powers. -
A new regime – the Directory – takes power in France in 1795.