Impacts of the French Revolution

By erin_buckwinkel
  • Louis XIV

    Louis XIV

    Spends $100 million to build palace at Versailles
  • Louis XIV

    Louis XIV

    Louis XIV dies leaving France debt

  • Enlightenment

    Age of Reasons reaches its heights
  • Louis XVI

    Louis XVI

    Louis XVI married Austrian Marie Antoinette
  • Louis XV

    Louis XV

    Louis XV dies also leaving France in debt from wars fought during his reign; Louis XVI takes over.
    People of France are poor and hungry
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    Is written and the colonists win American Revolution in 1781

  • Estates- General

    Peasants mad about new tax plan; Louis calls first meeting of Estates- General in 175 years
  • The Third Estate

    The Third Estate

    declared themselves the National Assembly and made the Tennis Court Oath.
  • National Assembly

    National Assembly

    Fearing Louis would force to dismiss the National Assembly, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille; tore it down. The Great Fear started shortly after.
  • Declaration of Rights of Man

    Declaration of Rights of Man

    Written to garentee freedoms of equality, press, religion, and justice.

  • Royal Family

    Tries to escape, but were caught and arrested
  • Guillotine

    Guillotine

    Was introduced

  • Maximillien Robespirre

    Is slowly gaining power
  • Antoinette

    Antoinette

    Is ececuted by guillotine
  • Jean-Paul Marat

    Jean-Paul Marat

    A member of a radical political group Jacobins, is stabbed in a bathtub by Charlotte Corday
  • Robespirre

    Robespirre

    Robespirre is executed by guillotine ending radical phase of revolution.