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Nobiltiy forces King Louis XVI to call the Estates General into session
The king was in trouble. The nobility was not happy this his attempt to tax their estate. Nobility wanted to pass the cost once again on the Third Estate. -
Estate-General meets in paris
King Louis XVI calls body into session to approve a new tax on the 3rd Estate. Had not met in 175 years -
3rd Estate refused to abide by the kings one vote for each esate order
3rd estates' people say they have a say in France's law. The king locked them out of the meeting room. -
Tennic Court Oath
The members of the Third Estate meet at the indoor tennis court of Versailles and pledge not to leave unitl they have written a constitution for the nation they represent. The king eventually concedes to their demands. -
Storming of the Bastille
The Bastille also served as an arsenal; and the mob actually stomed it to get their hands on weapons and gunpowder. -
Great Fear begins
Rumors of shortage of grains and harvest peasant started to go crazy -
National assembly abolishes Fuedalism with the august decrees
after great gear tax decreased and nobles give up their titles and more balanced class structure -
Declartion of the rights of men
first step to writing a constitution it gave fundamental rights to men, not only French but everyone. It didn't mention much about women or slavery -
Women of paris March to Versailles for Bread
It made the common being shine and not only have the noble people be the center of attention -
Royal Family's flight from Varennes
since the king tried to flee from paris it caused him to get his head get cut off 1793 -
New constitition adopted
a short lived document that gave the king way to much power, it helped make constittional monarchy the king still fled to jacobins. french revolution still rolling. -
Beginning of Legislative Assembly
It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making -
Brunswick Warns that Roal fam not to be harmed
Or else French civilians would be harmed. It was a measure intended to intimidate the people in Paris, it just made the French Revolution even more serious and finally led to the war between revolutionary France and counter-revolutionary monarchies. -
Storming of Tuileries Palace
The Storming of the Tuileries Palace proved effected since it dropped the french the monarchy -
French Monarchy is officially abolished
Revolutionary Gov't votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the first republic. Royal family imprisoned -
French defeat invaders who are attempting to preserve monarchy
France turns the tide of the war and takes the offensive against the invaders. -
Exucution of King Louis XVI
he was charged with treason and the last thing that set his exicution after he tried to flee in 1791 -
Committee of public safety established
it established protection against foreign attacks and internal rebellion -
Law of suspects passes Beginning of the reign of the terror in France
Immediately after the publication of the present decree, all suspects within the territory of the Republic and still at large, shall be placed in custody. -
End of the reign of terror, execution of the Robespierre
It was triggered by a vote of the National Convention to execute Maximilien Robespierre, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just and several other leading members of the Terror. This ended the most radical phase of the French Revolution. -
National Convetion is the dissolved and the creation of the Directorate
National Convention was elected to provide a new constitution for the country after the overthrow of the monarchy -
Napoleon named First consul
established himself as the head of a more conservative, authoritarian, autocratic, and centralized republican government in France while not declaring himself head of state -
Coronation of Napoleon Bonapoarte as Emperor of France
the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years
