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The Fall of the Bastille
People say that this was the cause and the symbol of the French Revolution also. The Bastille was the king's symbol for arbitrary power. -
The French Revolution Begins
There is no clear idea of how the French Revolution began. Some sa that it was caused because of financial problems that they were having. -
Constituent National Assembly Begins
The National Assembly was just the government for France. It had included members of the Third Estate. -
The adoption of the Declaration of Rights and Man
This adoption was one of the most important to France. The declaration allowed people to have rights and new abilities. -
Adoption of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
The main purpose of this adoption was to try to restore the Roman Catholic church. Another point of this was that the government didn't have to pay for the church's fees. The church had to pay for their own, and because the government was losing money. -
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Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and their children are arrested.
Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and their children were arrested because they tried to escape France. Eventually, because of this it destroys the Constitutional Monarchy. -
The Constitution of 1791
From this Constitution it created France a Constitutional Monarchy. The legislative powers before are now their own assembly. -
Louis XVI is restored to power.
Louis XVI is restored to power from being arrested on July 20, 1791. In order from being restored he had to swear to uphold the constitution. -
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Louis XVI creates a new government.
The new government is mostly made up of Jacobins. He had made it for the fact of he wanted the government to be uniformed. -
France declares war with Austria.
The French declared war with Austria because they lacked orginization. During the war the Austrians had allied with the Russians when they fought. -
Lafayette deserts the army.
He fled during the Revolution to go to Austria. For the armies in the north General Dumouriez has taken command from then on out. -
Military conscription is decreed by the Convention
From this decreed, which had called for 300,00 citizen soldiers. This is one of the reasons for revolts agains the Republic. -
The Convention approves of the Constitution of 1793
Even though that the Convention approved of it it wasn't enforced or applied to anything. This was very influential in and during the nineteenth century.
