The French revolution

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  • The start of the French rev

    The Estates-Generals, decide to meet up at Versailles to decide whether to count by head or to give each estate equal votes.
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    The French revolution

  • commotion on differences start to erupt

    The dispute over votes in the Estates-General leads deputies of the Third Estate to declare themselves the National Assembly. Along with some members of the clergy they threaten to proceed without the other two estates.
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    National Assembly phase

  • Tennis court Oath

    Royal officials decide to lock the National Assembly out of their regular meeting hall members of the assembly occupy the king’s indoor tennis court. They take what comes to be known as the Tennis Court Oath, promising not to disperse until they give France a new constitution.

  • King Louis VXI

    King Louis The XVI who has no backbone urges the other two estates to join the state assembly, Which then takes the official title of the NCA however he begins to gather troops with the intention of dispersing the body.

  • Storming the Bastille

    Amid the Great Fear of July 1789, when Parisians were panicked about the possibility of the aristocracy overthrowing the Third Estate, a large crowd seizes the Bastille prison, which is a symbol of royal tyranny.
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    The DRMC

    The DRMC was introduced by the national assembly who then the king refuses to sanction it, resulting in Parisians marching to Versailles and forcing the royal family back to Paris.
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    Legislative Assembly

  • French revolutionary wars

    The French declare war on Austria. For the next seven years, the hostilities known as the French Revolutionary wars continue between France and various European powers.
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    An Assembly

    The national convention decided to abolish the monarchy and established a republic
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    Convention Phase

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    Directory phase

  • Louis XVI death

    Louis the XVI is executed for treason.

  • Marie Antoinette

    Marie-Antoinette is executed by guillotine.To Wich The Reign of Terror is overseen by Maximilien Robespierre.

  • arrest of Maximilien Robespierre

    Robespierre is executed while arrested signaling the end of the Reign of Terror. Soon after, the National Convention is dissolved, making way for a government consisting of a five-person Directory and a bicameral legislature.

  • Napoleon Bonaparte

    overthrows Directory and declares himself first consul, or leader, of France. later becomes emperor.

  • Directory Phase

    Adoption of the constitution of year III