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Estates General Convened by King
The Estate General of 1789 was a first meeting summoned by King Louis XVI to propose solution to his government's finanical problem. -
Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath was a result of the graving discontent of the Third Estate in France in the face of King Louis XVI's domination. -
Storming of the Bastille
On the morning of July 14, 1789. A group formed of craffsmen and salesmen decided to fight back and ran to the invalides to steal some weapons. The crowd knew that a lot of powder was stocked in the Bastille, and a prison that represent the king's absolute and arbitrary power. -
National Assembly decress abolition of feudalism
A major event of the French Revolution, the National Constituent Assembly abolish feudalism, sweeping away both the seigneurial right of the second estate and tithes gathered by the First Estate. -
Declaration of the rights of Man and the Citizen
A document drafted by Emmanuel Sieyès , adopted by the Constituent Assembly on Aug. 26, 1789, and embodied in the French constitution of 1791 as a preamble. Its framers were much influenced by the American Declaration of Independence and by the philosophes.The French declaration listed the "inalienable rights" of the individual.The rights to "liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression" and the rights to freedom of speech and of the press were guaranteed. -
Women's March for Bread
A crowd of women demanding bread for their families gathered other discontened parisians, including some men, and marched toward Versailles arriving soaking not from the rain. -
Abolition of nobility and titles
The National Assembly decrees that hered itary nobility it forever abolished consequently, the title of Prince,Duke,Count,Marquis,Viscount,Baron,Knight,Lord,Squire. Noble and all other similar shall nerther be accepted by, nor bestowed upon anyone whomsoever -
Black citizens of French colonies granted equal rights
The society og Friends of black was a group of French men and women, mostly white, who were abolitionists. In February 1794, the National Assembly legislated the Universal Emancipation decree, which effectively freed all colonial slaves. -
Beginning of Legislative Assembly
The legislative of Frence from Oct 1 1791 to Sep 1792. It provide the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the Natioanl Corstituent Assembly and of the National Convention -
Execution of King Louis XVI
It was a major event of the French Revolution. king Louis XVI was guillotind. His death means the end of monarchy. -
Jacobin masses storm the Tuileries Palace, massacring the Swiss Guard, and the King imprisoned
A mob marched on Tuileries palace and slaughtered the guards, King Loius,Queen Marie Antoinette demoted to commoners were throw into prison. -
Committee of public Safety
The committee of public safety created by National Convention, and contain committee of the General Defence and assumed its role of protecting the newly established republis against foregin attacks and internal rebellion. -
Beginning of the Regin of Terror
A period of terror that began when the French revolution entered the phase of political conflict namely between the political factions of the Girondins and Jacobins The guillotine became the method of setttling disputes. The Law of Suspects allowed the creation of tribunals to try and execute anyone who disagreed with the French Repulic. -
End of the Reign of Terror
Robespierre is arrested and executed ending the phase known as The Terror. -
Creation of the Directorate
Napoleon's amblition continued to grow, capitalizing on his status as a nation hero, he decided to seize political power. -
First Consul
A group of the three consuls called the consulate would replace the directory as the government of France, and menbers voted Napoleon in charge as First Consul. -
Napoleon consecrated as Emperor
As Napoleon ruled his empire, he also strength ended the power of France's central goverment.
