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Seven Years War
The last major conflict before the French Revolution to involve the great powers of Eaurope. -
Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
A french military leader that overthrow the government and was the first to have total power. -
American Revolution
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Coronation of King Louis XVI
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"What Is the Third Estate?"
Joseph Emmanuel Sieyes publishes a pamphlet that tells how they thought the Estates should be organized. His ideas that the common people was a complete nation by itself and didn't need the clergy and aristocracy(rich and nobles) influenced the events of the French Revolution. -
Reveillon Riots
one of the first violent outbreaks in the french revolution. -
Convocation of the Estates General
A meetng between all three estates called by King Louis XVI to try to solve the government's financial problems. -
Tennis Court Oath
an important event during the first days of the french revolution. the oath was a pledge signed by 576 members from the third estate-generals to switch absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy -
Seizure of Church Property
The new government of France declared that all church property belonged to France and ordered it to be sold at a public auction. -
Storming of the Bastille
a state prison was attacked by an angry aggressive mob -
The August Decrees
Nineteen laws or rules that were declared to try help calm the Estates. They later led to the Assembly creating "the Declaration of the Rights of Man." -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
a document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights -
Women's March on Versaille
the march begin among women in the marketplaces of Paris who on the morning were nearly rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread -
Flight to Varennes
a significant episode in the French Revolution during which the king Louis XVI of France, his wife Mary Antoinette and their immediate family attempted unsucessfully to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution -
Champ de Mars Massacre
on this day the national constituent assembly issued a decree that the king Louis XVI would remain king under a constitutional monarchy -
Declaration of Pillnitz
a statement issued at Pillnitz castle .. it declared the support of the Holy Roman Empire and of Prussia for King Louis XVI of france against the french revolution -
Emigration of Nobles
a emigre is a person who has migrated out..french refugees former members of the nobility,catholic royalist sympathizers,or anti-republications who were expelled by the decree and the law of suspects following the French Revolution -
Proclamation of the First French Republic
The government of France assembled on Sept. 21, 1792 and ended monarchy. The next day they started the French Republic. -
Execution of King Louis XVI
Louis XVI was voted guilty of conspiracy and attacks on public safety. The deputies voted for the death penalty as his punishment. -
Rise of the Committee of Public Safety
The convention created this committee to maintain order within France and protect the country from external threats because they were unable to create an army oout of the upset peasants. -
Reign of Terror
This was a 10 month time period in which people that were thought to be enemies of the French Revolution were beheaded by the thousands! -
Execution of Maximillian Robespierre
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Directory Era
The time period when five directors held the highest powers in French government. They tried to end the revolution but was the second to last stage of it. -
The Third Estate declares itself to be the National Assembly
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White Terror
A movement against the French Revolution started by a group in south France called The Companions of Jehi.
