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Louis XVI calls estate general
He calls the estate general because Louis XVI's financial crisis brought on the spending of Louis XIV and XV and Louis XVI's debt spending to finance the American Revolution. At the esate general meeting The Third Estate asked for double the representatives and to vote by head, not by estate so that the First and Second Estate couldn't form a voting block that prevented any legislation the benefited the Third Estate from passing. -
Stormnig of the bastille
The Storming of the Bastille was the Parisian people assault on the Bastille, which was a Paris prison, on July 14, 1789, during the French Revolution. It was caused by Necker’s dismissal on July 11, 1789, which made the people of France extremely angry and starning the storming of the Bastille on July 14. -
Woman's March on Versailles
In the morning a large group of French women came together in the central store of Paris. What followed was the March to Versailles, one of the most violent scenes that happen during the French Revolution. The March to Versailles ocurring in an effort to obtain bread and force the high prices of bread down. Versailles was known as a royal paradise, save for the royal families . -
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King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are executed
EXECUTION In November 1792 , evidence of Louis XVI's counterrevolutionary intrigues with Austria and other foreign nations was discovered, and he was put on trial for treason by the National Convention. The next January, Louis was convicted and condemned to death by a narrow majority. On January 21, he walked steadfastly to the guillotine and was executed. Nine months later, Marie Antoinette was convicted of treason by a tribunal, and on October 16 she followed her husband to the guillotine. -
Declaration of the rights of woman and the female Citizen
Mothers, daughters, sisters, and female representatives of the nation ask to be part of as a national assembly. Considering that ignorance, neglect or contempt for the rights of woman are the sole causes of public misfortunes and governmental corruption. -
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Reign of Terror
The French Revolution succeeded in overthrowing a corrupt and unjust system of government, but it soon ran out of control. First, aristocrats were executed, and then the revolutionaries turned on each other in a bloodbath. The Reign of terror had begun, in which the state governed by fear. -
Thermidorian Reaction
The Thermidorian Reaction was a revolt in the French Revolution against the Reign of Terror. It was triggered by a vote to execute Maximilien Robespierre, Louis Antoine de Saint Just, and several other leading members of the Terror. This ended the phase of the French Revolution.Thermidorian Reaction also refers to the remaining period untill superseded ,this is also called Thermidorian Convention. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The rights of declaration is Men are born and remain free and equal in rights.These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.. No body nor individual may exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from the nation.
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Napoleon becomes Emperor
Napoleon, one of the greatest military generals in history, rise to the ranks of the French Revolutionary Army during the late 1790s.
By 1799, France was at war with most of Europe. After becoming first consul in February 1800, he reorganized his armies and defeated Austria.
In 1802, he made the Napoleonic Code, a new french law. -
Napolean defeated at Waterloo
On on Sunday, 18 June 1815 near Waterloo, Napoleon’s armies were defeated. The defeat at Waterloo ended his rule as Emperor of the French. The Battle of Waterloo took place near Waterloo on 18 June 1815 between the First French Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Alliance of the Seventh Coalition (the United Kingdom, Prussia, Austria and others), under the main allied commanders, the Duke of Wellington and General von Blücher.
