Anonymous   prise de la bastille

The French Revolution

By ZHB13
  • Estates General Called

    Estates General Called
    King Louis the XVIth had called in the Estates General to help with the economic problem in France. This has been the first time in 175 years they needed to be called in and so this can show that King Louis XVI is not the greatest if he needed some one else do his job.
  • National Assembly Formed

    National Assembly Formed
    After the estate meeting the thrid estate had come together to form a National Assembly but King Louis the XVI had locked them out of a hall they were planning to use for the meetings. SO they just found another one wich was a tennis room.
  • Tennis Court Oath

    Tennis Court Oath
    Three days after the assembly was formed they had made the Tennis Court Oath were they vowed to not stop meeting there untill they had their consitution made.
  • The Storming of Bastille

    The Storming of Bastille
    Here the assembly had decided to storm the Bastille to reacue a few prisoners and to mainly arm themselves out of fear if anymore of their people are arrested. They also put the decapitated head of Bernard Rene Jourdan on a pike as a sign "this will happen to you if you don't give us what we want!"
  • Woman's March on Versailles

    Woman's March on Versailles
    Here we have the Womans March to Versailles were a group of 7,000 women strong along with many other followers building the numbers up 10,000. They made their way into the Mansoin of the monarch and demanned them to move inside Paris. This was also a quite gursome and violent march many guards of the palce were killed
  • Consitutional Monarchy Formed

    Consitutional Monarchy Formed
    This year a Consitutional Monarchy was fromed by the assembly to weaken and or limit the King Louis the XVI's powers
  • Overthrow the Monarchy

    Overthrow the Monarchy
    A mob led by the New National Convention decided to overthrow the monarchy and establish France as a republic.
  • The decapataion of King Louis the XVI and Marie Antoinette

    The decapataion of King Louis the XVI and Marie Antoinette
    On Januray the 21st King Louis the XVIth was decapitated. On October the 19th Marie Antoinette was also decapitated.
  • The Reign of Terror begins

    The Reign of Terror begins
    The Reign of Terror was the period in the French revolution were thousands of people who were suspeced to not be loyal to the assembly were imprisoned and beheaded.
  • The End of the Reign of Terror

    The End of the Reign of Terror
    The end of the Reign of Terror was casused by the Imprisonment and decapataion of many leaders and their supporters in the revolution because of the extreme amounts of murder that was happing.