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Convocation of the Estates General
The Clergy, Nobility, and the general people gathered to talk about the state of France, but clergy and nobility pushed back the general population, gets them really mad. -
National Assembly of France
The people, angered by the governments choice to ignore their needs, create the National Assembly of France. Louis XVI gets mad and doesn't allow them to Assemble. -
Tennis Court Oath
With Louis XVI not allowing them to assemble where they plan, they assemble at an indoor tennis court in Versailles. There they proclaim the Tennis Court Oath-they pledge to not stop until they create a constitution of France(and establish finally that they are the National Assembly of France). -
2nd National Assembly of France
Louis XVI allows the National Assembly of France to meet again, but as they are meeting people star to notice troops emerging in Paris. Louis XVI fired his financial advisor when he suggests that Louis spend a little less money. People get paranoid about what he is planning and raid Bastille, gaining weapons and political prisoners that were kept on the grounds. -
Declaration of the rights of Man and the Citizen
The revolutionists created the Declaration of the rights of Man and Citizen, hoping for some kind of constitutional monarchy. -
Marie Antoinette is hiding grain?
A rumor starts to spread that Marie Antoinette is hoarding grain at Versailles. In responce, a group of peasant women marched on Versailles. The women are successful at getting into the building and demand that Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI move to Paris. They get their demands, and the royal family moved to Paris. -
1790
Louis and the Queen are stuck in the Tuileries in Paris, The year is full of plenty of tension. -
Champ-de-Mars Massacre
Jacobins gathering and protesting for a republic instead of a monarchy get rowdy and soldiers have to show up. tensions between the gatherers and the soldiers tighten until the soldiers shoot into the crowd, killing 50 people. -
Attempt to flee
In the fear and tension, many nobles are fleeing the country, and Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette attempt to do the same but stay within the country. However, they do not make it there. On the way there they get raided and taken hostage by angry citizens. They are then taken back to Paris. -
Declaration of Pillnitz
Leopold II (leader of Austria and Holy Roman Emporer) and Fredrick William II issue the Declaration of Pillnitz. This gets the revolutionists in France very mad as they take it very seriously.
