French Revolution Timeline

  • The Estates-General Meeting

    The Estates-General Meeting
    Louis XVI summoned the Estates General due to increased political dissent by mainly the third estate
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    The French Revolution

    A time of political and societal change in France over 10 years
  • The Tennis Court Oath

    The Tennis Court Oath
    King Louis locked them out of their meeting hall, so they met on the Versailles Palace tennis court and they wouldn't stop meeting until France had a constitution
  • The Storming of the Bastille

    The Storming of the Bastille
    A mob of angry French citizens and soldiers attacked the Bastille, which inspired other revolutionary movements in France for social and political reforms.
  • The Great Fear

    The Great Fear
    A wave of panic over the French countryside where peasants and townspeople attacked manorial houses.
  • The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

    The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
    Stated how every man is born with natural rights, liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
  • The execution of King Louis XVI

    The execution of King Louis XVI
    He wouldn't give up his royal power for the revolutionary government so he was guillotined because of treason
  • The Reign of Terror

    The Reign of Terror
    Public executions and thousands of mass killings of counter-revolutionary 'suspects', which was organized by the Committee of Public Safety.
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    The Reign of Terror

    Public executions and thousands of mass killings of counter-revolutionary 'suspects', which was organized by the Committee of Public Safety.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte’s Coup d’etat

    Napoleon Bonaparte’s Coup d’etat
    Overthrew the directory in France, which made way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte. It's viewed as the end of the French Revolution.
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    The First Empire (Napoleon)

    He crowned himself emperor of the French, but his reign ended after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo
  • Congress of Vienna

    Congress of Vienna
    A political meeting to redraw the borders of European nations after the Napoleonic Wars
  • Battle of Waterloo

    Battle of Waterloo
    It marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars after Napoleon's French army lost the battle