The French Revolution

  • Estates-General Meeting

    Estates-General Meeting
    First meeting since 175 years ago of the estates-general where France needed money
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    French Revolution

  • National Assembly

    National Assembly
    Voted to establish the National assembly in effect causing the end of absolute monarchy and the beginning of representative gov. Leads to Tennis Court Oaths
  • The fall of Bastille

    The fall of Bastille
    The prison (Bastille) was destroyed
  • End of Feudalism

    End of Feudalism
    Feudalism is ended and the divisions of estates ended
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of citizen

    Declaration of the Rights of Man and of citizen
    The National Assembly agreed on a statement of revolutionary ideals making the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of citizen
  • Bread Riots

    Bread Riots
    Parisian women made riots of the overpriced bread with knives, axes, and other weapons in the Versailles Bread riots.
  • Year 1790

    Year 1790
    They were building a new form of government because most of the people were not happy with absolute monarchy and they eventually changed it to republic government Assembly reforms France
  • The royal family

    The royal family
    The royal family tried to escape to the Austrian Netherlands
  • New Constitution

    New Constitution
    The National Assembly completed the new Constitution, King Louis approved it and it created a limited constitutional monarchy and created a new body the Legislative assembly
  • War on Austria and Prussia

    War on Austria and Prussia
    Legislative assembly declared war on Austria and Prussia
  • No more Monorchy

    No more Monorchy
    The National conventions took office, no more monarchy