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the national assembly
the third estate took action and established its own govt. -
storming of the bastille
Necker was fired and the king sent soldiers to control the movement, and the people took it the wrong way and revolted and stormed the bastille -
the great fear
a peasant revolt where the peasants destroy the countryside -
Period: to
war with Austria
France goes to war with Austria -
the legislative assembly
the legislative assembly was the next stage of the french revolution -
the radicals take over
Paris mobs stormed the Tuileries (wasnt really october 2nd) -
the guillotine is first used
Dr. Joseph Guillotin invented the guillotine as a more humane method of execution, but that backfired horribly because they overused it in the french revolution fi -
the national convention
first me on september 21, 1792 and abolished monarchy and switched everyone to calenders -
the committee of public saftey
created to keep from having a rebellion in 1793 -
the execution of the king
Louis XVI was convicted of treason -
Period: to
the reign of terror
lots and lots of executions happened -
napoleon becomes emperor
in 1804 napoleon crowns himself emperor
