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  King Louis 16 supported american colonists in their revolution.
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  Meeting of the state general an assembly of independence from all social classes to approve the new tax on nobility (held on versailles palace)
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  Delegates of third state proclaimed the creation of National Assembly giving an end to absolute monarchy beggining representative government (tenis)
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  delegates of third state proclaimed the creation of National Assembly giving an end to absolute monarchy beggining representative government (tenis)
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  Delegates of the third state along with nobles and clergymen who favored storms met to create a new constitution (called tennis court oath)
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  delegates of the third state along with nobles and clergymen who favored storms met to create a new constitution (called tennis court oath)
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  a mob of people screening for gunpowder stormed the bastille. a prison and symbol of monarchy
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  Jacobin leader Maximilian Robespierre created the reign of terror
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  Robespierre arrested and executed