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Estates General
Louis ignored the problem until he had no money left and hIs solution was to tax nobility. Representatives from all three estates gathered to approve this new tax. Each estate had one vote. -
National Assembly
On this day they gathered in the National Assembly to vote and they concluded that they will end with absolute monarchy and start to govern as a representative democracy. And this was the first cautious move of revolution. -
Tennis Court Oath
The third estate delegates locked themselves in the tennis court until they had written a new constitution. This was important because it showed how determined they were to begin again and to make al citizens equal. -
Storming the Bastille
People used gun powder and then bombed the bastille, as also took control and walked around streets with the faces of the dead guards on sticks. This showed how they were not going to take orders from anybody and it was one more significant act of the start of revolution. -
Great Fear
Noblemen expressed how they loved liberty and equality. They joined other members of the National Assembly and vanished the privileges of feudalism and made commoners equal to nobles. This was important because it now shoes that all people had the same rights and that the law applied to all the same. -
Louis Tries To Escape
Advisers warned Louis that he and his family were in danger. The royal family tries to leave France and goes to the Austrian Netherlands. They end up returning to Paris. The kings attempt to escape increase his enemies. -
Legislative Assembly
The national assembly completed the new constitution in which the king agreed. The constitution said that the government was now a limited constitutional monarchy. It created a legislative body, which had the right to create laws and as also to agree on war or decline. -
France at War
The Prussian commander had threatened to wreck Paris if they did something to the royal family. On this day revolutionaries invaded the Tuileries were the royal family was and killed guards and imprisoned Louis, Marie Antoinette and her children. -
Guillotine
Louis was now a common citizen and prisoner. Jacobins blame Louis for betrayal of the country. The convention found him guilty and by few votes they agreed to a death penalty. The man walked up the steps and was beheaded by a machine called the guillotine. -
Reign of Terror
Robespierre became the new leader of The Committee of Public Safety and it's goal was to protect the revolution from it's enemies. He govern France as a dictator and this period of time was called the reign of terror. This was important because it shoed how France yet again fell in the hands of a bad and untrustworthy leader.
