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The Great Fear
The Great Fear was a general panic which took place between July 17 and August 3, 1789 -
Estates General
The Estates were summoned by King Louis XBI to propose solutions to his Governments financial problems. -
Tennis Court Oath
The Third Estate, which represent commoners meet on the Jeu de Paume, an indoor tennis court, in defiance of King Louis XVI’s order to disperse. In these modest surroundings they took a historic oath not to disband until a new French constitution had been adopted. -
National Assembly
On June 17, with talks over procedure stalled, the Third Estate met alone and formally adopted the title of National Assembly -
Fall of Bastille
Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This caused the French Revolution. -
Women's March
On this day in 1789, an angry mob of nearly 7,000 working women armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles in what was to be a pivotal event in the intensifying French Revolution. -
The Flight to Varennes
The flight to Varennes was the royal family’s failed attempt to escape Paris. -
The Death of King Louis XVI
Being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine.
