French revolution timeline

  • Convening the Estates- General

    Convening the Estates- General
    Louis XVI summons Estates-General for its first meeting since 1614. The Estates-General was a French congress that consisted of Three estates.
  • Tennis Court Oath

    Tennis Court Oath
    A pivotal event. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General .
  • Storming of the Bastille

    Storming of the Bastille
    The Bastille was a prison that only held seven inmates. It was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob, The mob was not there for the prisoners but for the ammunition that the stores held inside the prison walls. The mob charged after the prison governor refused to comply and eventually took over the prison and killed the governor.
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    The Great Fear

    a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate.
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

    Declaration of the Rights of Man
    a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights
  • The Womens March to Versailles

    The Womens March to Versailles
    an angry mob of nearly 7,000 working women – armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets – marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles in what was to be a pivotal event in the intensifying French Revolution.
  • Louis and Marie try to flee France

    Louis and Marie try to flee France
    Louis and Mari fled to Versailles because they wererforced to move to Tuileries Palace where they couldnt hide the supplies of Bread.
  • Constitution of 1791

    Constitution of 1791
    French constitution created by the National Assembly during the French Revolution. It reatined the monarchy.
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    National Convention

    The National Convention was an assembly that gonverned France during the most critical period of the French Revolution.
  • Directory takes power

    Directory takes power
    Thery made up the French government and they had 5 people in the executive and 250 people in the Legislative.