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Louis calls the Estates-General
To enlist their support in raising taxes to help deal with France's dangerous financial problems.
Nobles were ended and the power and abuse of the Catholic Church -
Tennis Court Oath
Beginning of the French Revolution
The meeting of the Estates-General.
Disagreements between King Louis XVI and the three estates.
Three estates took an oath to make a constitution and limit the powers of king -
Attacks on prisons
Storming of the Bastille.
This prison had long been seen as a symbol of the oppressive regime of King Louis XVI, and its fall is regarded as central to the French Revolution and the establishment of the First Republic. -
Storming of the Basille
Motivated by citizens needing ammunition.
Beginning of the French Revolution
France's first republic -
Declaration of Rights of Man
Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on common utility.
It was a freedom of speech -
March of Versailles
The power was no more in the hands of the Louis XVI.
They demandes what they wanted -
Louis Trial
Subsequent execution of the king.
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Robespierre comes to power
He had his power base in the Jacobin Club, the most important of the revolutionary clubs where people debated events.
No significance -
The Terror
Provisional government
It was the closest France had and, over the next year, it marshalled the nation's resources to meet and defeat the many crisies -
Robespierre Killed
Robespierre and his followers were guillotined.
The period known the Terror came to an end.
Characteristic of the dawning modern world
