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Financial Crisis Begins
Churchs, and Aristocrats payed no income tax. -
Nobles and Church lose power
Commoners do not listen to Nobles and Churches. -
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French Revolution
Financial Crisis Begins -
Bastille Day
Day of independence. Towns people storm castle. Bastille Day celebrations are held in French communities and the Institut de France around the world. -
Bill of Rights
Called Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. It was ratified on August 26. 1789. The first article is: Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on common utility. -
Womens March
Fueled by rumors of a reception for the King's bodyguards on 1 October 1789 at which the national cockade had been trampled upon, on 5 October 1789 crowds of women began to assemble at Parisian markets. The women first marched to the Hôtel de Ville, demanding that city officials address their concerns. The women were responding to the harsh economic situations they faced, especially bread shortages. -
Royal family tries to flee
Royal tries to flee from Nobles in disguise as commoners. They are not successful. Thrown in jail. -
Napoleon became emporer
-France run by modern directory
-Threatned
When he made himself emperor, Napoleon clearly rejected the republican form of government. Here he tries to claim that hereditary government is necessary in a large state. The presence of the pope at his coronation seemed to confer legitimacy on the act. -
Louis XVI beheaded
Killed by the means of a guillotine. Convicted for treason before the National Convection. His wife was beheaded later in the year. -
Creation of Guillotine
The guillotine was invented by Joseph Ignace Guillotin, a professor of anatomy in Paris. This method was considered more humane as the victim only felt a small breeze on his neck before his head was cut off. It was used throughout the French Revolution. -
Robespierre was Guillotined
"The of Robespierre" began on March 30. Guillotined without trail. On the same day, his brother Augustin, Couthon, Saint-Just, Hanriot, and twelve other followers, among them the cobbler Antoine Simon, the jailor of Louis-Charles, Dauphin of France, were also executed.
