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Bad Harvest in 1787 and 1788
Bad weather caused widespread crop failures, resulting in a severe shortage of grain. Prices rises for bread, causing the majority to starve. These events led to food shortages, rising prices for food, and unemployment. -
Meeting of the Estates-General opened at Versailles
It started of rocky with a problem about voting. Because traditionally each estate had only one vote. Which meant that the 1st and 2nd estates could easily outvote the 3rd. The third state demanded that each deputy have one vote, that way the Third Estate would have the majority. But the King declared that he was in favor of the current system, in which each estate only has one vote. -
Parisians stormed the Bastille
A mob Parisians stormed the Bastille, an armory and prison, and dismantled it brick by brick. And Paris was abandoned to the rebels. King Louis XVI could no longer trust his troops, and so Royal authority had collapsed. And the fall of Bastille had saved the National Assembly. -
Destruction of the Old Regime
One of the assembly's first acts were to destroy the relics of feudalism, or aristocratic privileges. On August 4, 1789 the National Assembly voted to abolish the rights of landlords. As well as the financial privileges of nobles and clergy. -
Deceleration of the Rights of Man
This document was inspired by The Deceleration of Independence and Constitution. This is what the French were fighting for and received eventually after a long journey.
