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Meeting Of The Estates-General
King Louis XVI did the Meeting Of The Estates-General .In France the people were divided into three different groups the 3 estates general was given only one vote the Royal family above them all. The First Estates was the Roman Catholic with 1% population and the 2nd Estates was the nobility the wealthy old families with a 2% population and 3rd Estate is everyone else the peasants and wealthy merchants was the largest group a 97% population. The 3rd Estae was lock out of the meeting. -
National Assembly Tennis Courts Oathe
In May 5,1789 - 1791 The National Assembly Tennis Courts Oath, the third estate they pledged to not disband until a constitution was created. This started the beginning of the political French Revolution. -
The Great Fear
In June and August 1789 was the Great Fear the peasants rioted the countryside. They burned homes and monasteries and any building that contained records of public debt. -
The Storming of the Bastille
The Storming of the Bastille was the beginning of the physical revolution and the demonstrators, led by Amaria Cahila of the Third Estate in France, had earlier stormed the hotel des invalids to gather arms but with out powder or shot and when to the Bastille were the gunpowder was stored there. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Declaration of the Rights of Man was written it was the ended exemption to taxation, freedom of speech and equal right for all man and this lead the woman to the Declaration of rights. -
The Women’s March
The Women’s March on Versailles (Bread riots) Over 20,000 women grabbed weapons and marched to Versailles. The women were outraged over poor conditions and marched to Versailles to force the king to move Paris. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Woman
The Declaration of the Rights of Woman Olympe de Gouges wrote the declaration of the rights of women. Women could inherit property, but only because doing so weakened feudalism and reduced wealth among the upper classes. Divorce became easier but only to weaken the Church’s control over marriage. -
The De-Christianization
The De-Christianization program was the adoption of a new Republican calendar to 10 day week no more Sundays. Banned the public exercise of religion. Destruction of religious and royal states. -
The Thermidorian Reaction
The “Thermidorian Reaction” was on July 26 Robespierre gives speech illustrating new plots and conspiracies. July 27 the convention arrests Robespierre and in July 28 Robespierre is tried and guillotined. -
The End of the French Revolution
The End of the French Revolution .Napoleon Bonaparte, coming to power through a coup d’etat who would end the ten years period (1789-1799) known as the French Revolution.
