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Gathering of Estate Generals
This was the gathering of all the Estate Generals, which was the first in 175 years, to disscus the current issues in France, but when the Generals of the Third Estate refused to follow the King's orders to vote once per estate the third estate was kicked out and they decided to make their own legislation. -
Tennis Court Oath
After the Third Estate was banned from the gathering of the estate generals, they gathered in the the Tennis Court and sighned a pledge of their own. This group of Third Estatesmen were considered the National Assembaly. Also, this was one of the first sighns of Revolutionary Authority. -
Storming of the Bastille
A large mob of third estatesmen were searching for wepon supplies such as gun powder. In this search they went to the prison Bastille that was previously a military fort. When they were refused supplies by the commander of the prison they killed him and stormed the fort. This fort was a symbol of tyranny and the people were often imprisoned their for speaking out against the monarchy. So the people of France taking over the fort was almost symbolic. -
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National Assembaly decrees abolition of fuedalism
This when the newly formed 3rd estatesmen had gotten riden of the system that allowed the relationship between second estate and third estate in which the third estate could hold land for service or labor on the land. -
Decleration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
This was a fundemental document during the French Revolution that basicly gave a deffintion to every man in society, as a man and as a citizen. They were given freedom of speech, religon, and of the press, and it also stated that all men are equal. This applied to all men except slaves, and it also did not apply to women. -
Women's March for Bread
A crowd of about 7000 women, tired of watching their children going hungry, marched to the palace of Verailles and broke in, demanding food. But King Louis XVI then agreed to leave to the family palace in Tuileries. -
Abolition of Nobility and Titles
The National Assembaly had dispaned all nobility posistion including the Romen Catholic Clergy, who were demoted to Public Employees, and now had to follow and be judged as normal citizens. -
Black Citizens of French Colonies granted equal rights.
The Society of the Friends of the Blacks, were a group of abolitionists, who were mostly white men and women who push for the abolishment of slavery, which was grantted to them by the National Assembaly. The Document was called the Universal Emancipation Decree, which freed all the slaves. -
Beginning of Legislative Assembly
This was the start of a new form of government created by the National Assembly that had mostly changed voting laws. But it also kept the Monarchy, but severly limited the king's power. -
The Storming of the Tuileries Palace
A large mob marched tword the Tuileries Palace where the crowd then killed all the gaurds, also known as the Swiss Gaurd, And then kidnapping King Louis XVI, Queen Marie-Antoinette and their children. -
Execution of King Louis XVI
After being tried for crimes against France, King Louis was sentenced to death by decapatation from a device known as a guillotine. Thousands stood and watched as he was executed. -
Committee of Public Safety Established
The Committee of Public Safety was a department branched from the government with the sole purpose to protect the newly formed republic from not only forgin invaders, but from radicals hall bent on changing the government to fit their wants. -
Beginning of the Reign of Terror
This marked the beginning of what was known as the reign of terror. This was multiple political disputes between the Girondins and the Jacobins. But to settle these disputes, the Guillotine was used, The Law of Suspects allowed the creation of Tribunals to try and execute all who disagreed with the new French Republic. -
End of the Reign of Terror
The arrest and execution of Robespierre marked the end of the reign of terror. -
Creation of the Directorate
This was the executive branch of the government which was a body of five "Directors" who ran France right after the convention. -
Napoleon Named "First Consul" now the new Dictator
While Napoleon's popularity was rising, a mob of armed supportors of Napoleon surrounded the Directory Legislative and forced them to tranfer all their power to Napoleon. Making him the new and official Dictator. -
Napoloen concentrated as Emperor
Napoleon wanted to make his new power official and biological, meaning it stays in his family like monarchy, so he submitted what he called "Plebiseite" which was a question that asked all voters if they wanted France to be an Empire, the public voted yes and that made him the new Emperor.
