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Meeting of the Estates General
Louis XVI summons Estates-General for its first meeting since 1614. The Estates General emerged from a meeting that reunited an equal number of representatives from each Estate to solve this serious political crisis. Everyone met at the Palace of Versailles to debate some major problems. -
Voted To Establish The National Assembly - Leads To The Tennis Court Oath
The National Assembly was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate (the common people) of the Estates-General. -
Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath was a crucial event during the first days of the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789. The only person who did not sign was Joseph Martin-Dauch because he would not execute decisions not decided by the king. They made a makeshift conference room inside a tennis court, located in the Saint-Louis. -
Storming of the Bastille
The Storming of the Bastille happened in Paris, France. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. -
Feudalism & Divisions Between Estate Ended
One of the central events of the French Revolution was to end wit feudalism, and the old rules, taxes and privileges left over from the age of feudalism. The National Constituent Assembly announced, "The National Assembly abolishes the feudal system entirely." It ended with both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate (the nobility) and the tithes gathered by the First Estate (the Catholic clergy). -
Declaration of the Rights and of Man and of the Citizen
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is a document of the French Revolution. The Declaration was directly influenced by Thomas Jefferson, working with General Lafayette, who introduced it. -
Bread Riots
The Women's March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. The march began with women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of 5 October 1789, were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread. -
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Assembly reforms France
The French Revolution was an influential period of social and political violence in France. (1789 - 1799) The event was partially carried forward by Napoleon during the later expansion of the French Empire. The Revolution overthrew the monarchy, established a republic, experienced violent periods of political turmoil, and finally culminated in a dictatorship by Napoleon that quickly brought many of its principles to Western Europe. -
(all June) Royal family attempts to flee
The royal Flight to Varennes was a significant event in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI, his queen, Marie Antoinette, and their close family attempted to escape from Paris. Unfortunatelly they failed. They wanted to escape in order to initiate a counter-revolution at the head of loyal troops under royalist officers concentrated at Montmédy near the frontier. They escaped only as far as the small town of Varennes, where they were arrested after having been recognized. -
(all September) New Constitution - Limited Monarchy - Legislative Assembly Created
The short-lived French Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France. It was created after the collapse of the Absolute Monarchy of the Ancien Régime. -
(all April) Legislative Assembly Created
The Legislative Assembly was the legislature of France, during the years of the French Revolution. It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and of the National Convention. -
Abolished The Monarchy
In Revolutionary France, the Legislative Assembly votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the First Republic. The measure came one year after King Louis XVI reluctantly approved a new constitution that stripped him of much of his power.
