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Estates General meeting
This assembly was summoned by Louis XVI as a complete reform of the tax system was needed because of France’s political and financial situation. It was composed of three estates: the clergy, nobility and commoners, who had the power to vote for new taxes and to make reforms in the country. This was one of the things that marked the start of the French Revolution. -
National Assembly
The third estate, who were the representatives of the French people, created the National Assembly for writing a new constitution and the first estate accepted to join it. -
Storming of the Bastille
This was a royal fortress and prison in Paris, attacked by a crowd of revolutionaries. This event marked the beginning of the French Revolution. -
The End of Feudalism
Abolition of feudalism and the privileges of the nobility and the clergy by the National Assembly. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
This was declared by the National Assembly which proclaimed the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity. -
The Women's March on Versailles
A group of Persian women walked 20 km to Versailles and complained about the high price of bread and they even got the National Guard to join them. -
Storming of the Tuileries Palace
This took place in Paris by the people, that led to the fall of the French monarchy and the imprisonment of the royal family. -
Abolition of the monarchy
France became a democratic republic. -
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Reign of Terror
The Jacobins wanted to eliminate the Girondins and after the Death of Marat they were put on trial for treason. This started a period of extreme violence in which thousands of people were executed by the Revolutionary Tribunal. -
Death of Louis XVI
After he was found guilty of treason, he was guillotined. -
Death of Robespierre
He was the leader of the radical Jacobins. Many leaders of the revolution thought that he behaved like a tyrant, so he ended up arrested and guillotined ending the Reign of Terror.