French revolution
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- We have no freedom!
- Storming of the Bastille
- I'm tired of the terror!
- We need equal rights!
- King Louis XVI excecuted
- Louis XVI will be executed by the guillotine
- First day of the reign of terror
- We shall make terror on the order of the day!
- Hooray!
- Not sure if this is such a great idea...
- On June 17, the Estate Generals declared themselves to be a National Assembly, with the power to govern France. They started designing a constitution. The king took steps to stop the Assembly from meeting, which angered the people of Paris. On July 14, a mob destroyed the Bastille, a fortress and prison that symbolized royal power. The revolution had moved into the streets.
- Committee of Public Safety re-established
- 11 members of the committee of public safety after being re-established with Robespierre in the center.
- On January 21st, 1793, King Louis XVI of France was publically executed by the guillotine at Place de la Revolution in Paris. The reason King Louis XVI was executed because in August 1792 King Louis and his wife Marie Antoinette tried to escape France as they were being held captive. But on their way there they were spotted and arrested. This made the national convention to put King Louis into trial. And with a 1 vote difference, it was decided that King Louis XVI would be sent and killed by the guillotine because of conspiracy with foreign powers and being a traitor.
- Maximillien Robespierre excecuted
- The reign of terror shall now come to an end. Maximilien Robespierre will be executed by the guillotine
- On September 5th, 1973, the reign of terror began when a group of Parisian radicals within the national convention petitioned in the national assembly for “terror on the order of the day”. The reason the government wanted to terrorize and cause fear within the French people is so that they could suppress counter-revolutions and also scare off enemies outside of France which was Austria and Prussia at the time.
- Napoleon Bonaparte becomes consul of France
- Long Live Consul Napoleon Bonaparte
- On September 6th, 1793, the Committee of Public Safety was re-established as a form of government. During the reign of terror, Maximillien Robespierre was the main figurehead in the Committee of Public Safety and the committee had a lot of power in French society during the reign of terror. Where the purpose of the Committee was to arrest and execute those who are the enemies of the revolution. This meant counter-revolutionaries were the main target. The Committee would also raise new armies and assure food supplies to the people and the army.
- At the later stages of the reign of terror, Maximillien Robespierre started to lose a lot of his past influence and authority in French society and within the national convention. This is because the people think that Robespierre has too much power and his radical ideas made a lot of people die. In the final days, Robespierre was prosecuted and eventually arrested by the people as they wanted to end his reign of terror. On July 28, 1794, Robespierre was executed and his death marked to the end of the reign of terror, where he was the last victim of his reign of terror.
- In 1799 Napoleon, a skilled army commander, seized control of France in a coup d’état, bringing an end to representative government. Napoleon ruled as a dictator. Yet he also retained—in theory if not always in practice—many of the gains of the revolution, including citizens’ equality, individual liberty, and protection of property rights. In 1804, he put forward a law code that safeguarded these ideals. It became known asthe Napoleonic Code. That same year, Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France. Prussia and Austria, were France's enemies during the revolution, where those countries didn't want revolutionary ideas to spread to their country because they were a monarchy. The French emperor thus extended his control and influence over much of the continent. Napoleon also spread revolutionary French ideas and institutions. One of them, popular sovereignty, held that a people should govern itself. Even after Napoleon’s reign ended, in 1815, the French Revolution continued to inspire Europeans who valued liberty and equality. They challenged the authority of monarchies, seeking to replace them with republics.
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