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Enlightenment
people started to question the king and the social heirarchy. -
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7 years war
This war was between the great powers of Europe. They were hoping to win against Britain and Prussia and expand their colonial possessions. However, they lost this war and ended up in financial debt. -
King Louis XV death
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Estates General Summuned
King Louis XVI summoned the estates general to help with the financial debt France was in. However, all they decided to do was tax the poor even more. -
National Assembly and Tennis Court Oath
a revolutionary assembly was created by the third estate, some important members included: Robespierre Georges Danton. They meet on a tennis court and pledged to not stop meeting until they make a new constitution. -
Storming of the Hotel In Valides and Bastile
A large crowd raided a military hospital and got lots of rifles and weapons. However they had no ammunition so they stormed the Bastile. -
Jean-Paul Marat and Violence
The writings of Jean-Paul Marat were very popular among revolutionists and rural violence his breaking out. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was a highly influential declaration that guaranteed equal rights to all men. -
Women's March to Versailles
7,000 women Decided to march to Versailles where the king lived to protest their food crisis. The crowd tries to kill the queen but she escapes. However, the king agreed to accept hs new position sharing power with the revolutionary government -
Flee to Austria
King Louis XVI and Antoinette attempted to flee to Austria to initiate a counter-revolution. However, they were stopped and recognized so they returned to Paris and the king's powers were reduced to a simple figurehead. However, many radicals were unhappy that there was still a king so they protested but the revolutionary guard fired apon them. This split the revolutionist into two groups, the radicals, and the moderates. -
War on Austria
Fearing that other countries would attack France they declared war on Austria. Prussia also joined against France and sent them a threat saying "if the king was killed they would burn Paris to the ground", this, however, only angered the people. causing them to raid the king's palace and he took refuge in the legislative assembly where they demoted his position as king entierly. -
Sepetmber Masacares
During the September massacres, many prisons were raided due to fear of them rebelling. over 1,600 people were tried and executed on the spot including women and children. -
The French Republic
The National Convention declared the French Republic. Lots of ideas of democractic and equality were being implemented, the new republic was also erasing as many signs of monarchy as possible. The cult a reason was created to replace the church and many religious treasures were destroyed. -
Death of the King
Robespierre and many radicals wanted the ex king to be dead because they believed it was the only way for the revolution to survive and to prevent him from being put back on the throne. The former King was found guilty for treason after being put on trial. However, the moderates only wanted to deport the king so they voted and the radicals won by one vote. so the king was killed by guillotine and Marie Antoinette would suffer the same fate soon after. -
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Conscriptions and counter revolutions
Many other countries had joined the war effort against France. This made the legislative assembly to make a new conscription law that forced all religions to have a certain quota of men to fight the war. however, some of these regions were still very conservative and against the revolution. This caused many regions to start counterrevolutions. -
Jean-Paul Marat Death
With everything going badly in France Jean Marat blamed the moderates and called for them to be executed. this leads the conservatives to call for the arrest of Marat. it ended with all moderates in the government being arrested which left the radicals in full power. Meanwhile, in Caen, a woman of the same Charollote Corday was extremely angered by the violence of the revolution and the radicalization. Charlotte wanted to bring peace to France so she went to Paris and murdered Marat. -
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The Reign of Terror
Robespierre created the committee of public safety to protect France from its enemies which were like a 12-member dictatorship. The revolutionary Tribunal was also created to streamline trying suspected enemies of the revolution. on September 1793 Robespierre announced that "Terror is the Order of the Day". Many spies and secret policemen were everywhere listening to everything. anyone who was suspected to be against the revolution was tried. as a result many people were sent to the guillotine. -
Robespierre Death
after over 40,000 deaths Robespierre saw himself as a god and was eventually voted to be sent to the guillotine ending the reign of terror. -
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Thermidorians/White Terror
A more moderate group called the Thermidorians replaced the radicals. They wanted to restore peace and stability to France and people now turned against the radicals. They created a new constitution that also prevented power from falling into one person's hands. -
Royalists and Napoleon
Royalists saw this as an opportunity to protest for an insurrection but they were quickly put down by Napolean and were promoted to general. Napoleon then defeated Italy and forced Austria to sign a peace treaty.