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Estates General Called
In pre-revolutionary France, the clergy, nobles, and commoners gathered in the Estates-General in 1789. A meeting held by King Louis XVI to examine taxes and provide the go-ahead for the state to settle its obligations. -
National Assembly Formed
In the midst of the chaos of the Estates-General, which Louis XVI held in 1789 to address the growing French economic crisis, the National Assembly was established. Unfortunately, the Estates-General failed because the three estates could not agree on how to vote. -
Tennis Court Oath
The peseants got kicked out of their normal meeting area. and went two doors down and found a new meeting place.at the tennis court, they wanted to demonstrate the idea that the people of the country, not the king, held political power. -
The Storming of the Bastille
An irate and hostile mob invaded the Bastille, a state prison on the eastern edge of Paris. One of the important events of the Revolution that followed, the event established the prison as a symbol of the monarchy's assertive power. -
Constitutional Monarchy
After the Ancien Régime's absolute monarchy fell, France's first written constitution, the Constitution of 1791, established a constitutional monarchy. -
Becoming a republic
As there was more food shortages and food prices sky rocketed a group of the public “stormed” the kings palace and demanded lower prices and food. -
King Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette beheaded
After king Louis was convicted he was sentenced to death by the French national convention.later his wife was also sentenced to death but she was held with her kids and other ladies that were awaiting punishment for about 2 mounted -
Reign of terror
As the revolution continued there was a time when many masseurs where happening and many insistent people died because they were suspected of being enemies. They were killed by execution mainly nobles priests and horders. -
Reign of terror ends
At the end of the reign of terror Robespierre was arrested and then sentenced to death. All the prisoners in the prisons where let out and the “killing spree” was over. Over 300,000 suspects where arrested and 17,000 were killed 10,000died in prisons awaiting trial or simply did not get a trial and were left to dye