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Nobility forces king to call Estate General
Nobility was not happy with King Luis XVI decision to tax their estate. Afraid of their reaction, King Luis agreed with the nobility to pass on the tax on to the Third Estate. -
Estate-General meets in Paris.
King Luis XVI summoned Estate-General to propose solution to his government's finanical problem which was to pass on the tax meant to be for Nobility on to Third Estate. the Estate general had not met in 175 years. -
3rd Estate refused to abide kings one vote
Sense First and Second Estate's voted together on matter's which always resulted in the Third Estates loss, the third estate demanded that King Luis XVI should eliminate the proccess of the old voting method and adapt new one's. Fed up the third estate finaly put thier foot down and refused to abide king Luis XVI, which resulted in them being locked out of the meeting. -
Tennis court oath
King Luix XVI felt the Third Estates General overstepped their boundaries and locked out the Third Estate of the meeting Hall . Third estate, not to be defeated held meeting in Tennis Court. Din't leave until constaution was writen for france. king relented and allowed representative to have a vote. -
the storming of the bastille
A large mob gathered around the outside of the Bastille, which is a building similar to a fortress (held 7 prisioner at time). The mob besieged the Bastille in an attempt to force the people inside to surrender, and they succeeded. The mob were able to get a hold of the much gun powders and guns needed for their revolution. -
Great fear begins
After attacking the Bastille, French Citizens believed King Louis XVI was going to use foreign forces to put an end to the comming revolution and punish them. -
National assembly abolish feudalism
A document consisting of 19 articles The articles stated the reasons for the abolition of feudalism, and the laws that will replace them. It abolished the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate and the tithes of the First Estate. This ultimately elimated all their special previalges, such as the clergy having the power to not pay tax. -
Declaration of the rights of man
The document, very similar to the Declaration of Indepedence, declared the many reasons why the people of the Third Estate were rebelling against the monarchy and other Estates. The ideas they wanted to promote is liberty, fraternity and eqaulity among all citizen, regardless of class. -
women of paris march for bread
A crowed cosisting of about 7,000 women marched form Paris to Versailles (king palace) demanding bread and to lower food prices in order to feed their family. it was successful and KIng Luis XVI agreed to go back to Paris to live with family in Tuileries palace. -
Flight of the royal family
King Luis XVI and his queen Marie Antonette along with other family member attempted unsuccessfully to escape from paris in order to make a counter Revolution. -
New constatution adopted
After gaining power, the Third Estate adopted a new contitution which alowed them to creat a legilative assembly. The constatuion kept monarcy but limited the kings power. The constatution also allowed tax paying and at least 25 to vote. -
Beginning of legislative assembly
Legislature made up of two groups; the bourgeoisie (Feuillants) and democrats (Jacobins) to focus on political debates and forming new laws that would overide old ones. They wanted to limit kings power and to eliminate kings and his monarcy and to create a goverment where people ruled thme selfs. -
Warning of Brunswick Manifesto
Brunswick Manifesto warned the Third Estate to not harm the royal family and should the royal family be harmed an "exemplary and eternally memorable revenge" will follow. austria sent 50,000 troop to french border and in return national legislature declared war in return. -
storming of the tuileries palace
Angry mob marched in to the Tuileries palace and along the way killed off guards. King Luis XVI, his queen Marie Antoinette and other family member were captured and thrown in to prison. -
french monarchy abolished
The French monarchy was voted to be finaly abolished by the revolutionary goverment and signaled the end of the royal family rule.
first Republic was established. -
French defeat fregion invaders
France turns the tide of the war and takes the offensive against the invaders. -
The execution of King Luis
King was driven through the public street and beheaded with the guilotine. Marie antoinette was later beheaded on the same day. Mark the end of the royal family in France. -
Committee of public safty established
Committee of public safty was an executive body of France, Their roles were to prevent any civil war and other large scale problems within the country, as well as international wars. Its overall purpose was to protect the newly formed republic, and had powers in the judicial, legislative, and military. -
Begining of the reign of terror
This reffered to the period of chaos and massacre during the French Revolution. It was a political battle between two groups by the names of the Jacobins and the Girondins. The Law of Suspects allowed the creation of tribunals to try and execute anyone who disagreed with the French Repulic. -
End of reign of terror
At this point in time of caos, the revolutionaries of France gained control over the Committee of Public Safety's acts of massacre, and had their powers reduced, and Robespierre was arrested and executed. -
National convention desolved
Under the terms of the new constitution it was replaced by a bicameral legislature consisting of the the lower house called the Council of Five Hundred, responsible for drawing up legislation, and a 250 member Council of Ancients, which could accept or reject laws but not draw up their own. -
Napolean named first consul
Napolean was a French general during the French Revolution who became emperor of France after. Bringing himself as ruler, Bonaparte sought to spread the ideals of the French Revolution. -
Coronation of Napolean as emperor
Napolean was crowned emperor of france which made him the most powerful man in france. As Napoleon ruled his empire, he also strength ended the power of France's central goverment.
