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Estates-General Meeting
The people of the Third Estate voted to establish the National Assembly, proclaiming the end of absolute monarch and the beginning of a representative government. -
National Assembly
The people of the Third Estate voted to establish the National Assembly, proclaiming the end of absolute monarch and the beginning of a representative government. -
The Bastille
a mob searching for gunpowder and arms stormed in the Bastille, a Paris prison. The seized control of the building and paraded in the streets with the dead men’s heads on pikes. -
Feudalism Dead
Feudalism ended, divisions between estates ended. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen -
Riot at Versailles
thousands of Parisians women rioted over the rising price of bread, they marches on Versailles. -
New Constitution
Civil Constitution of the Clergy adopted, The king accepts a new constitutions. -
Family tried to escape
The royal family tried to escaped from France to the Austrian Netherlands. They were apprehended and returned to Paris under guard. They were emigres -
Louis approves new constitution
the National Assembly completed the new constitution which Louis approved. it created a limited constitutional monarchy. it stripped the king of much of his authority. -
Austria, Prussia and France war
Austria and Prussia urged France to return Louis as an absolute monarch and the Legislative Assembly responded by declaring war. -
France becomes republic
The people abolished the monarchy declaring France a repuplic.
