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Bad Harvests lead to food shortages
This starved people which made the people mad, it lost the country money and the people drove King Louis XVI and his family into hiding. -
Louis XVI Summons the Estates general
In the fall of 1786, Louis XVI’s controller general, Charles Alexandre de Calonne proposed a financial reform package that included a universal land tax from which the privileged classes would no longer be exempt. To garner support for these measures and forestall a growing aristocratic revolt, the king summoned the Estates-General for the first time since 1614. -
Estates General Convenes
The meeting of the estates general was scheduled for May 5, 1789; in the meantime, delegates of the three estates from each locality would compile lists of grievances to present to the king. -
Tennis Court Oath
On June 20th, 1789, the members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath, vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established". It was a pivotal event in the early days of the French Revolution. -
Bastille stormed and taken over by a mob
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris.