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King Louis XVI calls National Assembly
In July 1787 Comptroller-General Lomiene de Brienne, asked the Parliament du Paris to register the tax on property of all three estates. The Parliament refused and France entered a year of intense conflict between the royal government and the parliaments. On July 5, 1788, Louis XVI gave in to the demands of the nobility and issued an edict calling the Estates General to meet in May 1789. -
Tennis Court Oath
The National Assembly which is created by people from the third estate was created on June 10 1789. The National Assembly was and assembly of "the people" not of the estates. In an attempt to stop the National Assembly Louis XVI ordered the closure of the Salle des États. This is where the assmebly would meet. -
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the french revolution
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Storming of The Bastille
A mob stormed the bastille, prison in Paris known as the Bastille which represented royal authority "power" in the center of Paris. While the prison only contained seven prisoners at the time of its storming, its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution, and it subsequently became an icon of the French Republic. -
The Declaration of Man and Citizen
The Declaration of the Right of Man and Citizen was announced. Earlier in August 1789, the National Assembly had written its first act, abolishing feudalism, and therefore liberating peasants from "seigniorial obligations" The Assembly announced a document that showed ideas of hope and of the enlightenment the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen -
Louis XVI recognizes National Assembly
The king formally recognizing the national assembly Following the violent up rises in the rural areas and the storming of the Bastille, France seemed to be falling into chaos, Louis XVI had little alternative but to recognize the National Assembly. -
Passing of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
The nationalization of Church lands was the first step in state control of the Church. On July 12, 1790 the National Assembly passed the Civil Constitution of the Clergy to bring the clergy under government control. Clergy would now be elected by all citizens and their salaries paid by the state. The clergy were required to swear an oath of allegiance to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. -
Louis XVI desperate move
The king tried to leave in a desperate move on June 20th, 179, he tried to flee to Austria with his family. He was later stopped at the boarder, he was sent back to Paris. Public opinions which earlier had been willing to accept and even love the king as a constitutional monarch, now began to turn against him. -
Luois XVI gets executed
The former Louis XVI, now simply named Citoyen Louis Capet was executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793 on the Place de la Révolution, former Place Louis XV, now called the Place de la Concorde. After he was executed, some of the citizens who witnessed the beheading ran forth to have their clothes soaked in the King's blood, dripping from his head. -
Reign Of Terror
During this time, as the violence escalated between the Girondins and the Jacobins over the struggle for power, it resulted in the execution of 16,000 French citizens who were deemed to be "enemies of the revolution". Those sent to the guillotine include Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Princess of Lamballe. The Reign of Terror came to an end with the execution of Robespierre in 1794. -
Robesspiere's Death
Robespierre, who accused of setting himself up as a dictator, was arrested in July 1794. He was later executed that month along with with twenty-one others in a public ceremony. The Jacobin rule ended.
