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Storming of the Bastille
Bastille was stormed by an angry and aggressive mob. The Bastille only held seven prisoners at the time but the mob didn’t come for them. They came for the huge ammunition storages that were kept in the prison. The governor was then was killed with his head put on a spike for everyone to see. -
Tennis Court Oath
On 17 June 1789, the Third Estate, led by Honoré Gabriel Riqueti,
began to call themselves the National
Assembly. On the morning of 20 June, the deputies were shocked to discover that the chamber door was locked and guarded by soldiers. Immediately fearing the worst and anxious that a royal attack by King
Louis XVI was imminent, the deputies congregated in a nearby indoor tennis court where they took a solemn collective oath "not to separate -
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French Revolution
The French Revolution started because the 3rd estate was sick of being the only people that paid taxes, lack of food, financial problems, etc. That started the French Revolution because it introduced the riots and everything else. Then the French Revolution ended due to the fall of Napoleon, his lose was the biggest during the war causing death to nearly over 500,000 men. After that France was invaded and conquered, that banished Napoleon and monarchy stayed, that was the end of the FR. -
Royal Family attempts to flee
The royal family attempted to flee Paris to Varennes. King Louis XVI realised that things were becoming too dangerous for them because of the Revolution. When they were caught in Varennes the trust of the revolutionary government to them faded completely and the revolutionary government became hostile towards to royal family. -
Napoleonic code
it was drafted by a commission of four eminent jurists and entered into force on 21 March 1804.The Code, with its stress on clearly written and accessible law, was a major step in replacing the previous patchwork of feudal laws. Historian Robert Holtman regards it as one of the few documents that have influenced the whole world. Even after the fall of Napoleon the Napoleonic Code sticked around and did everything it was meant to do after Napoleon was gone. -
Congress og Vienna
It reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. It began in September 1814, five months after Napoleon I’s first abdication and completed its “Final Act” in June 1815, shortly before the Waterloo campaign and the final defeat of Napoleon. The settlement was the most-comprehensive treaty that Europe had ever seen. -
Stop of Nationalism
After the fall of Napoleon, they stopped Nationalism and put a king back on the throne to rule