-
Estates General Assembly was Created
after bad harvests and costly wars, King Louis XVI is forced to convene the estates general assembly (meeting of representatives of the Three Estates) in order to raise taxes -
Period: to
Nation Assembly Government
Revolutionary Government led by the third estate -
Tennis Court Oath
resolves not to disband until it has written a constitution -
Bastille
Bastille was stormed and taken by a Paris mob -
Period: to
Great fear
Peasants attack nobles manors -
National Assembly
Nobles in National Assembly renounce feudal rights; Jacob Club formed. -
Deceleration of the rights of man
Assembly issues Deceleration of the Rights of Man -
King Louis
King Louis brought from Versailles to Tuileries palace in Paris -
King flees
King flees to Austria, is caught at Varennes -
Period: to
Legislative assembly
Constitutional government by elected officials -
Mobs in Paris
Paris mobs storms royal palace; Legislative Assembly government Collapse. Minister of Justice Danton kills thousands of presumed traitors. -
National Convention
National Convention Abolishes monarchy and declares France a republic. -
Period: to
National convention government
Elected by universal male suffrage to rewrite constitution -
Revolutionary Calendar
Revolutionary Calendar introduced with new day and month names -
National Convention.... Again
National Convention Condemns and executes the king -
Counter Revolutionary revolt
Counter Revolutionary revolt in the vendee regions begins -
Reign of Terror
"Reign of Terror" by committee of Public safety begins -
Price controls
Price controls put into place by the government dechristianization administrative reform -
Rosepierre executed
Rose Pierre is executed in the month of thermidor and the reign of terror ends -
Churches reopened
-
New constitution
New constitution is adopted,forming a new government called directory -
Period: to
The directory government
New constitution has two houses council of ancients and council of 500 -
no more royalists
Royalists are bansished from being apart of directory -
End of revolution
Napoleon abolishes the directory government and changing it to a consulate government French Revolution ends
