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the timeline of the french revolution

  • general assembly means to raise taxes

    king Louis XVI gave the representative of the third assembly to raise taxes for the estates
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    national assembly government

    revolutionary government led by the third estate
  • tennis court oath

    national assembly resolves not to disband until it has written a constitution
  • Bastille and Paris

    basetille stormed and taken paris mob
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    great fear

    peasants attack noble manors
  • nobles in national assembly

    nobles in national assembly renounce feudal rights and the Jacobin club formed
  • rights of men

    assembly issues declaration of rights of men
  • king Louis and pairs

    king Louis brought from Versailles to tuileries place in pairs
  • king flees to austria

    king flees to Austria, caught in varennes
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    legislative assembly government

    constitutional government by elected officials
  • pairs mobs storms the royal places

    pairs mobs storm the royals, legislative gov. collapses, minister was killed
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    national convention government

    elected by universal male suffrage to rewrite the constitution
  • national convention

    establishes monarchy and declares french a republic
  • Revolutionary calendar

    introduced with new dyad month names
  • National convention

    condemns and executes the king
  • counter-revolutionary revolt

    revolts in the Vendee region begins
  • ''region of terror"

    committee of public safety begins
  • prince controls

    prince controls
    was put into place by government, dechristianization (ex. saints names removed from street names), administrative reforms (i.e. change in how the government operates)
  • "thermidor"

    "thermidor"
    in the month of "thermidor", robespierre is executed; Reign of terror ends.
  • Churches response

    Churches response
  • new constitution is adopted

    new constitution is adopted
    it forms a new government called the directory
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    the directory government

    new constitution has 2 houses: council of ancients and council of 500
  • government takeover

    government takeover
    coup d' 'état (gouvernent takeover) removes royalists (those faithful to the monarchy) from directory.
  • Napoleon coup

    Napoleon coup
    napoleon coup d' 'état abolishes directory and establishes consulate government; end of french revolution