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Time line 1770-1780

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  • 1794 BCE

    The end of the Rule of Terror

    As the executions of the Terror became worse, many people relized that it could not continue. Enemies of Robespierre organized to overthrow him. He was removed from the power and he was executed the next day.
  • 1793 BCE

    The king's arrest and execution

    The whole royal famiy was arrested. The king was guillotined.
  • 1789 BCE

    The Tennis Court oath

    The representatives of the Third Estate called themselves National Assembly and produced the following oath.
  • 1789 BCE

    The Declaration of the Rights of Man

    The Assembly adopts this important document, wich was inspired by the American Declaration of Independence.
  • 1789 BCE

    The Storming of the Bastille

    Joined by some of the king's soldiers stormed the Bastille, a small but key fortification that could attack popular neighbourhoods.
  • 1789 BCE

    The Declaration of the Rights of Man

    It was a document that affirmed the rights of man to liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.
  • French Revolution

    Was a period of major social upheaval that began in 1787 and ended in 1799. It sought to completely change the relationship between the rulers and those they governed and to redefine the nature of political power.
  • National Assembly decrees.

    Women's march to Versailles in demand
    of bread. The King gave them bread, but after this march,
    the king was forced to accept all the National Assembly
    decrees.
  • Church Reforms

    Secularization of the
    Clergy and a Civil Constitution for the Church (which
    included the voting of bishops) .
  • Constitution (political liberalism)

    It defined France as a Constitutional monarchy. It established divion of powers. Reoresentatives would be elected by censys suffrage.
  • The Dictorate

    Was the name of the goberment that ruled France during the final stage of the French Revolution. The goverment was based of a new constitution.
  • Period: to

    Absolutism restoration and liberal revolution