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The Wedding of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
After the war with Austria, the Grandson of the king Louis XV married with a girl of Austria,The wedding meant the end of the war and rivalry of these two countries. -
King Louis XV died
After four years latter the wedding of his Grandson the king died of smallpox. -
The Tennis Court Oath
The Third Estate decided to stick with representing their right and opposed Louis XVI when he did not allow each delegate to vote.
So they met inside a tennis court where they establish the National Assembly and reasoned to draw up a constitution based on popular sovereignty. -
The Great Fear.
Political crisis and rural unrest was present in France.Peasants went hungry, grain prices rapidly increased and Peasants fought against the unjust regime. -
National Constituent Assembly
Was formed during he first stages of the French Revolution and the nobles surrender their feudal rights. -
The fall of Bastille
When rumors spread about royal troops occupying Paris, many Parisians gathered outside the Bastille, a medieval fortress used as a prison to demand weapons and gun poweder. The mob broke through the barriers, They finding no weapons. This event was a symbol of tyranny and a symbol of the French Revolution. -
The King Louis ans Marie Antoinette and Their family Try to Escape.
King Louis XVI of France, along with his wife Marie Antoinette decided to escape their embarassing situation in Paris.Louis received threats from abroad.They were seen as traitors to the revolution. -
New constitution of France.
it was the first written constitution in France -
War between Austria and France.
Although the French fared poorly at first, the armies became more successful as the war progressed. -
Jacobins Invaded the Tuileries
Many members of Jacobin clubs were also deputies and used the meetings to organize forces and plan tactics.The most notorious deputy connected with the Jacobin club is Robespierre -
National Convention
The Convention voted to abolish the monarchy and declare France a republic. They wanted to dissolve old order. They took lands and titles away that belonged to the nobility,They wanted to have the whole control. -
The King Died.
The King was sent to the guillotine, where he was beheaded,He was sent to the guillotine, where he was beheaded.This was significant because people were now making decisions and held the power... -
Marie Antoinette is executed
The queen Marie Antoinette was executed because she sat back and watched when her people were starving. -
Robespierre died
Robespierre sent his friends Danton and Desmoulins to the guillotine for believing in something that Robespierre did not. -
The Directory
The Directory helped silence riots, like the san-culottes with increasing bread prices.They made a mistake when they turned to Napoleon Bonaparte for help in advancing their ideas when he ended up becoming ruler of France and the leaders did not always succeed in solving problems. -
Congress of Vienna
Tha main goal of the decision makers was to establish a balance of power and protect the system of monarchs.This would help create peace and Balance the power in France. -
A hundred Days
Napoleon escaped his exile on Elba with his intentions of ruling France again when Louis XVIII was renewed as king.Opposing armies met near the town of Waterloo in Belgium -
Waterloo..
The United Kingdom, Russia, Austria, and Prussia organized their armies to defeat a French army under the control of Napoleon. when Napoleon wanted to be emperor again This defeat ended Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French and this was exiled him again, this time to an island called, St. Helena.
