-
Meeting of the Estates General
This was when the 3 Estates grouped together to discuss tax problems and find a way to solve it, and this had not been done since 1614. -
Tennis Court Oath
This was when the Third Estate (the commoners) had broken off from the Estates-General after a debate with the other two about how they should all vote. They then called themselves the National Assembly, and took an oath to not disperse until France was under a new constitution. -
The Storming of the Bastille
Fearing that the other 2 Estates would overthrow the third, it led to the Great Fear of July 1789, when the peasants were in a panic. On the 14th, the people seized the Bastille, a symbol or royal tyranny. -
Declaration of Rights
Due to the Great Fear, the nobles and bourgeois were were frightened of the revolting citizens. On August 26, 1789, they created the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen, promoting liberty, the right to resist oppression, inviolability of property, and equality. -
March on Versailles
A mob of 7,000 angry working women traveled in the rain from Paris to Versailles to receive food for Paris, as they were dangerously low. -
Reign of Terror
This entailed the arrest of at least 300,000 suspects, 17,000 of which were sentenced to death and executed while more had died in prisons or were immediately killed without trial. The government created an army of more than one million men at the same time. -
The Rise of Napoleon and Creation of an Empire
On November 9, 1799, Bonaparte became the leader of France as its "first consul." -
Napoleon's Empire Collapses
Because of the Continental System, the Peninsular War, and the invasion of Russia, Napoleon's empire collapsed, which was shown as 3 major mistakes that led to his grip on Europe weakening. -
The Congress of Vienna
It was a conference of ambassadors of European states to provide a long-term peace plan for Europe by setting issues from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.