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Begin the Napoleonic Era
The beginning of the Napoleonic Era started with a suppression riot in Seurre, Burgundy -
King Louis Calls the Estates General
The Estates General meeting was a huge opportunity for the poorest people of the Third estate to finally be heard by the King. The double representation was seen as a huge victory and a hope for a change was growing.
On the first days of the meeting, the King and his delegates announced the principles of the meeting and the Third Estate discovered that the double representation was in fact a sham. It was decided that the votes will be hold by orders, 1 vote for each estate and not by head. The d -
Start of the Revolution
The estate has begun there meeting in Versailles on May 5, 1789. Then the third Estate declared itself as a “National Assembly” which was representative by the people. This was a new National Assembly to include the other two estate. King Louis XVI attempted to shut down the national Assembly.
The tension has increased because of massive crop failures that has led to food shortages. In paris the streets have been filled up with mobs, the king has decided to use force. -
Tennis Court Oath
The third estate were locked out of a meeting at the Estates general, so they went to a nearby tennis court
occurred on june 20, 1789 in Versailles, France
The tennis court oath was a historic oath taken by the third estate that declared that they were not to disband until a new French constitution was adopted
The Third Estate declared itself the National Assembly. Louis then legalized the National Assembly under the Third Estate but then surrounded Versailles with troops and dethroned Jacques -
Storming of the Bastille
Paris, France on july 14th of 1789
A group formed of craftsmen and salesmen decided to fight back and ran to the Invalides to steal some weapons. The mob stole 28,000 riffles there, however no powder was to be found.The crowd knew that a pile of powder was stocked in the Bastille, so they decided to attack it.
The king met some of the men inside but the rest attacked and resulted in many deaths, but a win for the people of France. -
The Great Fear in the Countryside
The Great Fear started at the beginning of the French Revolution. The whole countryside was worried ever since the worsening grain shortage since the spring. There were rumors of militias hired by the nobles to protect the new harvest and prey on the villages.The Great Fear in the countryside started on July 19, 1789 through August 5, 1789. The peasants ransacked and destroyed aristocratic property and feudal obligations, as well as cases of violence against aristocrats. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizens was passed by the National assembly, and was written long before the French Revolution was over. They believed that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are sole cause of public ignorance, neglect, or corruption of governments. The Declaration of the Rights of Man, along with the Bill of Rights in the United States, have been hugely significant for the world as a whole. It has helped to create the idea that people everywh -
The Bread March on Versailles
On October 5, 1789, rumors spread in Paris that the royals were keeping all the grain. Becoming enraged and incited by revolutionaries, a hungry mob of 7,000 knife-wielding fishwives and their husbands decided to march on the Palace of Versailles. -
The Constitution of 1791
This Constitution of 1791 was the first ever written Constitution of France that would represent everyone in the nation. The idea of the constitution was to to finally have a constitution and establish sovereignty, following similar steps taken by the USA. The constitution had adopted some ideas that were rather controversial- the creation of a French constitutional monarchy. The main controversy was the level of power to be granted to the King of France in such a system. -
Execution of King Louis XVI
The execution of King Louis XVI took place on the 20th of January 1793, by guillotine. It happened in the "Revolution Square" as named so by the people. It was closesly followed by the execution of Marie Antionette. -
Execution of Marie Antionette
Marie Antionette was executed on the sixteenth of October in 1793, by means of guillotine. Her last words were "Pardon me, sir. I meant not to do it." to her executioner, whose foot she had stepped on whilst getting up on the block.
