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Estates General Meeting
The meeting was called for the first time in 175 years because of economic crisis in France. King Louie's initial intention was to try and raise taxes, but instead the meeting sparked revolution. -
National Assembly Formed
When the deputies representing the third estate arrived s the Generals Estate Meeting the realized they were locked out, and so they decided to make the national Assembly as they represented the majority of France's population (97% of the population was from the third estate). -
Tennis Court Oath
When the people of the National Assembly were forming, they searched for the nearest large space to meet. What they found was a tennis court and there they made an oath to never stop meeting until the constitution changed. -
Storming of Bastille
The first act of revolution was the storming of Bastille where the people of the third estate tore the Bastille, a prison apart brick by brick, destroying a symbol of the government and its history as well as releasing political prisoners and taking gunpowder . -
Declaration of the Rights of Man Written
Much like the American Declaration of Independence, The Declaration of the Rights of Man Written declared that everyone was to have the natural rights and evoked power from the king and gave it to the National Assembly. -
Legislative Assembly makes laws in France
The assembly gathered to make laws in France while King Louis was still in power but weakened by the revolution. The people that would meet at the assembly were divided in three groups based on their values and beliefs: The conservatives, the moderates, and the radicals. -
Execution of King Louis XVI
After King Louis and Marie Antoinette were caught trying to escape France they were put on trial and it was decided that King Louis would be executed with the guillotine. -
Committee of Public Safety governs France
The Committee of Public Safety was a group of 12 people lead by Robes Pierre who ruled France as a collective dictatorship during the revolution. -
The Reign of Terror
A part of the revolution lead by Robes Pierre that involved in tens of thousands of executions to instill fear in the enemies of the revolution. -
Dechristianization
Robes Pierre was afraid of the power of the Church, so he got rid of it, took it's wealth, and started his own religion. -
Execution of Maximilien Robespierre
Robespierre created a new list of enemies that he wouldn't tell who was on it. Everyone was afraid that they were on it, so they arrested him and executed him before he got a chance to read the list, which ended the Reign of Terror. -
The Directory controls France
The Directory ruled as a temporary government after the end of the revolution and lasted about 5 years until Napoleon took power. -
Napoleon takes over in a coup d’etat
Napoleon was the general of the France military which took over France. Napoleon then crowned himself emperor. -
Napoleon signs Concordat with Catholic Church
The Concordat was an agreement Napoleon made with the Catholic Church that restored the position of the Church in France but also didn't let the Church have a say in national affairs. -
Napoleon creates the Napoleonic Code
The Napoleonic code was Napoleon's comprehensive system of laws that gave France a uniform set of laws and eliminated many justices but also limited liberty and individual rights. -
Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France
With the support of French voters, Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France which signaled that he was more powerful than the Church as the Church is usually the one to crown the emperor. -
Napoleon dies after he is banished to island of St. Helena
When Napoleon began to lose, people began to like him less and less and he was eventually banished to the island of St. Helena where he died.
