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Meeting of the general estates
King Louis XVI agreed to call the Meeting of The Estates General. This is a traditional meeting of the 3 estates. The first estate is 1% of the population.The second estate is 2% of the population. The third estate was 97% of the population. The Royals where above them all. King Louis XVI called this meeting because he needed to raise taxes. The Third estate wanted each delegate to have a vote, but they where only allowed one vote. They broke away and renamed themselves The National Assembly. -
National Assembly tennis court oath
National Assembly Tennis Court Oath, After the King disagreed with the third estate, and the third state was locked out of their own meeting they left and went to a near by tennis court, and pledged to not disband until a new constitution was created. This was the beginning of the political french revolution. -
The Great fear
The Great Fear, between June and August 1789 peasants rioted the countryside, they burned homes,and monasteries and any building that contained records of public debt. -
The storming of bastille
The Storming of The Bastille, on July 14, 1789 the storming of the bastille was the beginning of the physical revolution. The demonstrators led by Amaria Cahila of the third estate in france stormed in to The Hotel Des Invalides to gather arms but it didn’t have gun powder. So they went to the Bastille to go get ammunition and gun powder and stole it. -
Declaration of the mens rights
On August 1789, the Declaration of The Rights Of Men was written. This ended the exemption to exemption to taxation freedom of speech and equal rights for all men. This lead to the writing of The Women’s Right Declaration. -
Bread Riot, March on Versailles
Women and some men March on Versailles(Bread Riot). Over 2,000 women grab weapons and march to Versailles because the are outraged with poor conditions. They reach Versailles and the King gives them all their bread but it wasn’t enough. They go force and capture the King and imprison them in paris. -
Declaration of The Rights Of Women
On September 191, Olympe De Gouges argued in her Declaration of The Rights of Women. She wrote that declaration. She says that all women are equal citizens and should benefit from government reform just as men did. Women could now divorce and inherit property. -
De-Christainization program
The De-Christianization program was the adoption of a new republican calendar, 10 day weeks, no more Sundays, no more days of worship, new names for the months, new non-religious holidays. They turn cathedrals into “Temples of Reason”. The radicals arms no God, No religion, No King, No constitution. -
Robespierre is executed
Robespierre is trued and guillotined, this is the end of the Reign of Terror. -
Arrest of Robesspierre
The convention arrest Robespierre for being anti-revolutionary. -
End of French Revolution
The directory takes over after Robespierre’s execution. the people of France are poorer and more frustrated. it would be a military leader Napolean Bonaparte coming to power through Coup D’etat who would end the ten year period (1789-1799) also known as the French Revolution.
