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Bad Farming
Bad harvest that lead to food shortages and unemployment in 1787 and 1788 -
Tennis Court Oath
Third Estate boldly declared National Assembly to draft a constituion. Known as the Tennis Court Oath for having meetings in an indoor tennis court to avoid the eye of the Government. -
Storming of the Bastille
The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. It was governed by a man named Marquis de Launay. A huge angry mob rushed the Bastille looking for gun powder and prisoners that had been taken by the disliked King Louis XVI.The mob stole 28,000 riffles but there was no powder. There weren't many prisoners in the Bastille at the time only 7 people were freed. The same night 800 men started to destroy the Bastille. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" were passed by the National Assembly. This presented to the world the ideals and principles of the Revolution, and justified the destruction of a government based upon absolutism and privilege, and the establishment of a new regime based upon the inalienable rights of individuals, liberty, and political equality. -
New Constitution
The New Constitution set up limited monarchy and allowed only men over 25 who paid a certain amount of taxes to vote. -
constitution of 1791
Preamble: The National Assembly, wishing to establish the French Constitution upon the principles it has just recognized and declared, abolishes irrevocably the institutions which were injurious to liberty and equality of rights. Neither privilege nor exception to the law common to all Frenchmen any longer exists for any part of the nation or for any individual. -
Louis' Execution
King Louis XVI was exicuted because on January 15, 1793, 361 of the 700 deputies of the Convention voted to execute him. He was accused of High Treason and Crimes against the State. -
Reign of Terror
a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution." The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine. Ending on the 28th of July 1794. -
Voted to end Robespierre
Enough votes were gathered to have Robespierre put to rest. -
Jacobins fall powerless
After Robespierre's deathe the "Jacobins" were rended powerless in which the middle class leader took control, causing the law of the 22 to be repealed. -
Conquered the Netherlands
the French had the largest army ever seen in Europe and it conquered the Austrian Netherlands. -
The Directory
To control executive responsibilities and appointments, a group known as the Directory was formed. Though it had no legislative abilities, the Directory’s abuse of power soon came to rival that of any of the tyrannous revolutionaries France had faced. -
Napoleon's Coup d'etat
This overthrew the French Directory, replacing it with the French consulate. Coup d'etat simpily means a strike against the state.
