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King Louis XVI calls forth the Estates General together for the first time in a long time. Featuring the clergy, the noblility, and the rest of France together. -
The Third Estate became the National Assembly and protested on the tennis court of the Estate General building after a failed attempt to take it over. -
Marked the beginning of the French Revolution, in which the monarchy was overthrown and a republic set up based on the ideas of 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité' -
Is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution. -
The Women's March on Versailles was an important event at the start of the French Revolution. It gave the revolutionaries confidence in the power of the people over the king. -
King Louis knew his reign was over. Therefore, the family tried to get out of France by escaping to Austria. But they were caught. Austria wanted France to support their King and became a bit angry when they didn’t. -
With the Republic’s establishment in France, King Louis XVI was brought to court for his crimes and was executed using the guillotine -
Fought for power during the times of French Constitutional Monarchy. During the execution of Louis XVI, the Girondins wanted to exempt Louis XVI from execution, while the Jacobins wanted him to be executed in order for the Revolution to be successful. -
Was a period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution. -
Maximilien Robespierre, one of the most prominent leaders in the French Revolution and the key figurehead in Reign of Terror, is executed along with more than a dozen of his allies. -
It is a violent, illegal, unconstitutional seizure of power by a political faction, military, or a dictator. -
His coronation ceremony took place in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, with incredible splendor and at considerable expense. -
Common people of lower class who became radical and militant partisans of the French Revolution in response to their poor quality of life and minimal government representation. Most important ideas were social equality, economic equality, and popular democracy, as well as their want to abolish monarchy, nobility, and Roman Catholic Clergy. They provided principal support behind the radical factions of the Paris commune and enforced policies and regulations of the revolutionary government.