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King Louis calls the Estate
The noblility was not happy with his attempt to tax their estate. Nobility wanted to pass the cost again on the Third Estate. -
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National Assembly
3rd Estate declares themselves the National Assembly. -
Tennis Court Oath
3rd Estate held a meeting of their own at the Tennis Court after getting locked out of the meeting. They promised not to disband until they had written the French Revolution. -
Great Fear begins
Peasants rose against their lords, the gathering troops around Paris provoked unsurrection and peasants tried to overthrow the third estate. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
17 articles served as the preamble to the Contstition of the 1793 and 1795. People gained liberty, equality, the inviolability of property, and the right to resist oppression, All men were equal before the law. -
March to King
Women marched Louis XVI to Paris with the help of the National Assembly. They forced the royal family back to Paris where they took up residence at the Taileries. They Demanded Bread from the king queen. -
King stop!
The king got stopped at Varennes after trying to flee the country where he hoped to initiate a counter-revolution -
Execution of king louis
After six weeks of debate in the National Convention, with the Girondins wanting clemency for the king, whereas the Jacobins wanting to execute him. On January 21, 1793, the French government sent its former king to the guillotine. -
Robespierre killed
Robespierre was arrested on July 27 and executed the next day. In month of Thermidor in the new French calendar, Robespierre was deserted by his supporters, accused of being a tyrant. Robespierre wanted to extend emergency powers, but others felt that the emergencies were over and wanted to return to regular administration. -
Napoleon
Upon returning from Egypt, Napoleon took advantage of the political turmoil in France plaguing the Directory. Napoleon was able to overthrow the Directory in a bloodless coup d'etat. He became First Consul at this time.
