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Louis XV burys the third estate in taxes
France needed money as they had recently lost a good bit from the wars that they had participated in. The third estate was the largest estate and were mainly poor. The king would not tax nobility as they were his friends and could not tax the church. -
Louis XVI Calls for the meeting of the estates
ouis the XVI called the Estates General meeting in 1789 to address issues of taxation. The meeting brought together representatives from France's three Estates, which were comprised of Catholic clergy, nobility and the general population. -
Third Estates creates own government called National assembly
The third estate final straw was the king unfair rules and decided to make their own government called the National assembly. They make the tennis court oath. -
Attack of Bastille
On July 13, revolutionaries with muskets began firing at soldiers standing guard on the Bastille’s towers and then took cover in the Bastille’s courtyard when Launay’s men fired back. That evening, mobs stormed the Paris Arsenal and another armory and acquired thousands of muskets. At dawn on July 14, a great crowd armed with muskets, swords, and various makeshift weapons began to gather around the Bastille. The Bastille was then tore down by hand piece by piece. -
Louis XVI signs The Decleration of the rights of Men
King Louis XVI is forced to sign The Decleration of the Rights of Men basically taking away all his power. -
Louis and Marie are marched to Paris
Louis and Marie are surrounded and are forced to go to Paris. After being captured and taken they will never see Versailles again. -
France becomes a constitutional monarchy
Laws were to be made by the National assembly, which was to be elected indirectly. Only men above 25 years of age and who paid tax were allowed to vote. They were called as active citizens and the other men and women were called as passive citizens. -
France puts it king on trial
Louis was officially arrested on August 13, 1792 and sent to the Temple, an ancient Paris fortress used as a prison. On 21 September, the National Assembly declared France to be a republic and abolished the monarchy. -
King Louis XVI executed
Louis XVI brought the French Revolution crashing down upon himself, and in 1793 he was executed. -
Committee of Public Safety made
political body of the French Revolution that gained virtual dictatorial control over France during the Reign of Terror. -
Marat killed by Charolette Corday
Jean Paul Marat, one of the most outspoken leaders of the French Revolution, is stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, a Royalist sympathizer. ... He died almost immediately, and Corday waited calmly for the police to come and arrest her. She was guillotined four days later. -
Marie Antoinette jailed
hen, the following August, Marie-Antoinette is transferred, alone, without her children or sister-in-law Madame Elisabeth, to the jail of La Conciergerie. It is located within the premises of the main Courthouse of Paris, next to the Revolutionary Tribunal. -
Marie Antoinette killed by gullotine
Mare Antoinette is beheaded on October 20th, 1793. The people of France came and watched as she was beheaded as she was one of the most hated queens of all time. -
Robespierre executed and the Directory took over
Robespierre and his allies were placed under arrest by the National Assembly. Robespierre and 21 others were guillotined without a trial in the Place de la Revolution. -
Passing of the Civil Code
Its purpose was to reform the French legal code to reflect the principles of the French Revoultion. -
Napoleon then asked to be ruler
Napoleon was asked to be ruler by the Directory as France was slowly coming to a Fall. -
The coronation of Emperor Napoleon
The coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of the French took place on Sunday December 2, 1804. It marked "the instantiation of modern empire" and was a "transparently masterminded piece of modern propaganda". -
Congress of Vienna
Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain, the four powers that were chiefly instrumental in the overthrow of Napoleon, had concluded a special alliance among themselves with the Treaty of Chaumont, on March 9, 1814, a month before Napoleon’s first abdication. -
Exile to Elba
After his defeat at the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813, Napoleon retreated to Paris where (due to a lack of support from his military marshals) he was forced to renounce his throne in April 1814. The European powers exiled him to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean. -
Period: to
100 Days
The Hundred Days, marked the period between Napoleon's return from exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815. Ironically it was a period of 111 days not 100.
