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Nobility forces King Louis XVI to call the Estates General into session
The King was in trouble.The nobility was not happy with his attempt to tax their estate. Nobility wanted to pass the cost once again on the Third Estate. -
Estate-General meets in Paris
King Louis XVI calls body into session to approve a new tax on the Third Estate. Had not met in 15 years -
Third Estate refused to abide by the kings one vote for each estate order
The King locking them out of their meeting, not to be defeated,the representatives meet in the Tennis Court.They swore that they won't leave the court until they had writen a constitution for France -
Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis court oath came about as a result of the fact that they were locked out of the Estates-General Meeting. The Third estate held a meeting on a nearby Tennis Court to Consider Economic Reform. Sovereign not belong to the King but the people themselves -
The Storming of the Bastille
The mob went to look for weapons, They tried to negotiate with the Bastille commander for weapons, soon the mob broke into the Bastille, the prison guard and the mob start firing to each other. The mob killed the commander and stuck his head on a long stick and paraded -
Great Fear Begins
The Third Estate they fear that the king would purnish them and end the revolution. Some people spread rumors that the king hired foreign soldiers to purnish the Third Estate. -
National Assembly abolished Feudalism with August Decrees
Eliminated all the feudal dues and services that the peasants owed the landowners. The assembly also eliminated the first estate's legal privileges -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Laid out the basic principles of the Frech Revolution- " Liberty, equality, fraternity" - took their inspiration from the English Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence and Enlightenment Philosophers. -
Women of Paris march to Versailles for Bread
7,000 women marched through the rain from Paris to Versailles for bread. Demanding bread, the mob broke into the palace force Louis to return to Paris and live with his family in the Tuileries Palace. -
New Constitution Adopted
A twelve member Constitutional Committee was struck 14 July 1789 (coincidentally the day of the Storming of the Bastille. Its task was to do much of the drafting of the articles of the constitution. It included originally two members from the First Estate. -
Beginning of Legislative Assembly
The National Constituent Assembly dissolved itself on 30 September 1791. Upon Robespierre's motion it had decreed that none of its members should be capable of sitting in the next legislature. Its successor body, the Legislative Assembly, operating under the liberal French Constitution of 1791, did not last a year and was generally deemed a failure. It left behind an empty treasury, an undisciplined army and navy, and enormous domestic turmoil -
Brunswick Manifesto warns that Royal family must not be harmed or else...
Austria and Russia issued a declaration warning against harming the French monarchs and hinting that tany such action would provoke war. Does not mean to reach as a serious threat Austria sent 50,000 troops to the French Border. The lesgislative Assembly declare war. -
Storming the Tuileries Palace
Mob marched on the Tuileries Palace and slaughtered the guards. Louis, Marie- Antoinette, and the children now demoted to commoners were thrown in prison. -
French Monarchy is officially abolished
Revolutionary Gov't votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the first Republic. Royal family imprisoned -
French Defeat foreign invaders (Austria and Prussia) who are attempting to preserve the monarchy
France turns the tide of the war and takes the offensive against the invaders -
The execution of King Louis XVI in Paris
took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution ("Revolution Square", formerly Place Louis XV, and renamed Place de la Concorde in 1795) in Paris. It was a major event of the French Revolution. After events on the 10 August 1792, which saw the fall of the monarchy after the attack on the Tuileries by insurgents, Louis was arrested, interned in the Temple prison with his family, tried for high treason before the National Convention -
Committee of Public Safety Established
The Committee of Public Safety (French: Comité de salut public), created in April 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793, formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror (1793–1794), a stage of the French Revolution. The Committee of Public Safety succeeded the previous Committee of General Defence (established in January 1793) and assumed its role of protecting the newly established republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion -
Law of Suspects passes- Beginning of the Reign of Terror in France
The Law of Suspects (French: Loi des suspects) was a decree passed during the Reign of Terror on 17 September 1793, following the French Revolution. It marked a significant weakening of individual freedoms that led to "revolutionary paranoia" that swept the nation. -
End of the Reign of Terror- execution of Robespierre
The Law of Suspects fell into disuse by July 1794 with the end of the Terror - before Thermidorian Reaction - and direction was replaced by revolutionary surveillance committees (Comité de surveillance révolutionnaire) responsible for the practical exercise of repression, with oversight by district committees.[11] The law was officially abolished in October 1795, immediately preceding the installation of the Directoire in November 1795. -
National Convention is dissolved and the creation of the Directorate
National Convention dissolved itself.Run by an executive branch of five directors.The directors were weak, caused France's troubles Continued. -
Napoleon named Fist Consul
Napoleon Bonaparte (French: Napoléon Bonaparte [napoleɔ̃ bɔnɑpaʁt]) (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution and its associated wars in Europe. -
Coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte as EMperor of France
As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815. His legal reform, the Napoleonic Code, has been a major influence on many civil law jurisdictions worldwide, but he is best remembered for his role in the wars led against France by a series of coalitions, the so-called Napoleonic Wars.
