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Meeting of The Estates General
King Louis XVI decided to bring back banker Jacques Necker who was previously the general of finance. Necker then said to call the Estates general. On May 5th 1789 all three estates came together and to come to a financial solution. They tried to decide how they were going to vote. This argument ended when the third estate formed a national assembly, which they invited the other 2 groups to join to go against the king. This was the start of the French Revolution. -
Tennis Court Oath
Days after the national assembly(third estate) was formed they found themselves locked out of the meeting hall so they went to a near tennis court. They then made an oath that the group would be undissolvable until they created a new constitution. The king soon heard about this and they held a gathering which ended in the third estate being to powerful and the king having to recognize them. -
The Storming of the Bastille
King Louis XVI dismissed Jacques Necker after blaming him for the failure of the estates. Necker was very well liked by the people so this started in uproar. On July 13th 1789 Revolutionaries raided Paris town hall for weapons. The next day citizens alongside the national assembly stormed the Bastille. This gave the revolutionaries lots of power and everyone now knew that they were not to be messed with. -
Declaration of Rights
The declaration of rights was created with inspiration of the american "natural rights" by Lafayette who also worked with Thomas Jefferson. King Louis XVI was forced the except these declaration of right of man and of the citizen. -
March on Versailles
There was a food crisis in France and nothing was being done to solve it so the woman of France with families decided to march to Versailles. The national guard protected the thousand of people who joined in. Soon King Louis XVI took responsibility for the situation and immediately sanctioned the August Decrees and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. King Louis XVI and his family were then imprisoned. -
Reign of Terror
Robespierre and the Jacobins made economic and political threats to France to try to reclaim the nation but it turned bloody. Paris turned to executions. Robespierre had people excited for having beliefs seemed to be counterrevolutionary. -
The Rise of Napoleon and Creation of an Empire
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military leader and emperor who took over much of Europe. In 1799 he seized political power and France and crowned himself emperor. He then went to war with many other European nations and expanded his empire. -
Napoleon’s Empire Collapses
Napoleon and his army went to Russia to Punish Alexander from removing Russia from the continental system. But the deadly Russian winter decimated his army. Affairs in France became unstable and he tried to get a new army but was defeated again. He was then exiled to the isle of Elba. -
The Congress of Vienna
In September of 1814 The Congress of Vienna began. It was a congress of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian Klemens Metternich, and held in Vienna from November 1814 to June 1815. This congress tried to come up with a peace plan for Europe. They also talked about different french revolutionary war issues.
