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French Revolution
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Necker is Fired
French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of Louis XVI, a post he held in the lead-up -
Louis XVI crowned
King Louis XVI crowned -
Tennis Court Oath
pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution -
National Assembly
deal with France's financial crisis, but promptly fell to squabbling over its own structure -
Storming of the Bastille
medieval fortress and prison in Paris -
Great Fear
Rural unrest had been present in France since the worsening grain shortage of the spring, and fueled by the rumors of an aristocrat "famine plot" to starve or burn out the population, peasant and town people mobilized in many regions -
Decleration of the Rights of Men and Citizens
The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments -
Women's March on Versailles
women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of 5 October 1789, were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread -
Constitution of 1791
first written constitution in France -
National Convention
single chamber assembly in France from 21 September 1792 to 26 October 1795 -
Execution of Louis XVI
Louis XVI Executed -
excution of Marie Antoinette
Execution of Marie Antoinette -
Committee of Public Safety
National Convention and then restructured -
Reign of Terror
period of violence -
napoleon's Coup d' etate
French coup of 1851, see The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon -
Paris Commune
ocialistic government that briefly ruled Paris -
Estate General
general assembly representing the French estates of the realm -
Declaration of War against austria
formal act by which one nation goes to war against another -
Constitution of 1795
national constitution of France
