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Louis XVI takes throne at age 19, weak leader, and married 14 year old Marie Antoinette. -
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Timeline Of The French Revlution
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Louis XVI's government about to go bankrupt, Poor harvest. National Assembly is formed -
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People pf Paris storm the Bastille, a much hated prison that symbolized autocratic rule. Revolution had begun. -
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National assembly adopted the Decleration of the Rights of Man and of the citizen. Guaranteed the rights of the liberty, property, sercurity, and resistance to oppresion to all people. -
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Great Fear Period, Peasants were fearful because nobles hired outlaws to terorize them.
Peasants rioted stormed Versailles and demanded Louis and Marie to go make to Paris -
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National Aassembly disbanded so new Legislative Assembly can take over. Createsa constitutional monarch, King gave Assembly power to create French Law. -
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Revolution Leaders Trurened on each other. Legislative Assembly forms Radicals, Moderates, and Conservatives. -
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Austria and Prussia who supported Louis XVI sent troops to Paris -
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20,000 Parisians invaded the Royal Palace, Louis Marie and their children imprisoned -
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National Convection abolishes monarchy and declared France republic. men vote and women cant. Men hold office, woman given rights -
December 1792- June 1793
Louis no longer king, became treason guilty. Sentenced to death -
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Louis XVI executed by the guillontin -
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Great Britian, Holland, and Spain joined Prussia and Autria and fighting France National Assembly draft 300,000 French citizens into the army -
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Maximilien set out to gather power into his own hands becomes leader of the commitee of public safety. He decides who should be the enemy -
July 1793- July 1794
Robespierre governed France neasrly as a dictator, this was called the Reigns Of Terror.
Approximately 3,000 were executed in Paris and all together 4,000 -
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Marie executed Revoultionary courts declare death sentences challenge Robespierre -
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The National Committee turns on Robespierre claiming that he is a tyrant . -
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Robespierre was executed -
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moderate leaders in the National convection draft a new Constitution creates two house legislature
Napolean Bonaparte choosen to lead France armis
