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Nobility forces King Louis XVI to call the Estates General into session
The king was in trouble. The nobility was not happy with his attempt to tax their estate. Nobility wanted to pass the cost once again on the Third Estate. -
Estate-General meets in Paris
King Louis XVI calls body into session to approve a new tax on the 3rd Estate. Had not met in 175 years. -
3rd Estate refused to abide by the kings one vote for each estate order
Heard rumors that the king hired foreign soldiers to punish them. -
Tennis Court Oath
Pledge signed by 576/577 people. Joseph Martin Dauch didn't sign because it wasn't sanctioned by the King. -
The Storming of the Bastille
3rd Estaters invade the Bastille for cannons and guns to overrule the king for spending all of France's money. -
Great Fear Begins
Peasants armed themselves in self-defence and attacked houses -
National Assembly abolishes Feudalism with August Decrees
Eliminated feudal deus that peasants owed; landowners eliminated first estate's legal privleges. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Defines the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. -
Women of Paris March to Versailles for Bread
Mob of women grew into thousands. Ransacked the city for weapons and marches into the palace of Versailles.
Cause: high price and scarcity on bread -
Royal Family's Flight from Varennes
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and family try to escape Paris in order to start a counter-revolution -
New Constitution adopted
Established popular sovergnity -
Beginning of Legislative Assembly
Provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law making -
Brunswick Manifesto warns that Royal family must not be harmed or else...
50,000 troops from Australia were sent to France borders. -
Storming of the Tuileries
Demanding of abolition from moarchy. 100/950 Swiss guards survived. -
French Monarchy is officially abolished
Revolutionary Gov't votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the first Republic. Royal family imprisoned. -
French defeat foreign invaders who are attempting to preserve the monarchy
France turns the tide of the war and takes the offensive against the invaders. -
The execution of King Louis XVI in Paris
Killed with the guillotine. -
Committee of Public Safety Established
Protects the republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion. -
Law of Suspects passes-Beginning of the Reign of Terror in France
Individual freedoms which led to revolutionary paranoia. -
End of the Reign of Terror- execution of Robespierre
Death toll greater than 10,000. -
National Convention is dissolved and the creation of the Directorate
Only men who owned property were allowed to own land.
Passed financial reforms, improved trade; although wasn't an effective government. -
Napolean named First Consul
Napolean became dictator. The people willingly gave up some freedoms so that Napolean could bring peace off. -
Coronation of Napolean Bonaparte as Emporor of France
Wanted to tell the world that he took his power, no one gave it to him.
