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- The storming of the Bastile
- The Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- The Woman's march at Versailles
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- WERE STARVING!!!!. OUR CHILDREN OUR DYING. PLEASE AT LEAST SPARE US SOME BREAD
- The Trial and Execution of Louis XVI
- Assassination of Marat
- The Reign Of Terror Begins
- Marie-Antoinette is Guillotined
- Arrest and execution of Robespierre/ End of the Terror
- THE TERROR IS OVER!!!!!
- Directory comes into power
- What do we do? There dying?
- Napoleon Bonaparte Overthrows the Directory/End of revolution
- On 14 July 1789, a state prison in Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison became a symbol of the monarchy’s oppressive rule. This event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that resulted.
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is arguably one of the most important papers of the French Revolution. It was signed in August 1789. This document explains a list of rights, such as freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and separation of powers. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was also inspired by the declaration of independence.
- On October 4, 1789, a mob of women demanding bread for their starving families marched toward Versailles. They were determined to take the King back to Paris and this complicated things for the King. The King agreed to meet with a few of the women and promised to distribute all the bread in Versailles to the crowd
- In December 1792 the National Convention sent Louis XVI to trial. The former king was presented with 33 charges, . After weeks of testimony in the court room , all 693 of the National Convention’s officials voted towards the king’s guilt. They sent him to execution. On January 21st 1793 Louis Capet was sent to the guillotine and decapitated before thousands. The trial and execution of Louis XVI caused a sensation across France.
- On 13 July 1793, 24-year-old noblewoman, Charlotte Corday, assassinated Jean-Paul Marat who was one of the main Jacobins. Corday pulled a knife from her bodice and stabbed him in his chest. Four days later Corday was guillotined. This was and important event in the French Revolution because it was one of the many causes of the reign of terror
- This period is called the reign of terror of the French Revolution and it started on September 5, 1793. Civil war was spreading in France on all sides, the Revolutionary government made “Terror” the order of the day and took extreme measures against any enemies of the Revolution. In Paris ,executions followed. In the provinces, the revolutionaries committed local terrors. during the Terror, at least 300,000 people were arrested 17,000 were officially executed, and perhaps 10,000 died in prison.
- On 16 October 1793 Marie-Antoinette is sent to the guillotine. At a time of economic crisis in France, she lived extravagantly and told her husband to resist change of the monarchy. She allegedly responded to reportings that the French peasants had no food to eat by replying, “Let them eat cake.” The revolutionary uproar led the king and queen to attempt an flee to Austria in 1791, but they were captured by revolutionary forces and sent back to Paris.
- On 28 July 1794 Maximilien Robespierre, the creator of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror is overthrown by the National Convention. Robespierre encouraged the execution, by guillotine of more than 17,000 enemies of the Revolution. The day after his arrest, Robespierre and 21 of his followers were guillotined before a happy mob.
- When the Directory came into power on November 2 1795, it was faced with many problems such as civil war, internal corruption, and war with neighboring countries. There was also a power struggle within the directory between royalists and radical revolutionaries.The Directory failed to handle the situation the people became angry with the new government. They also had corrupt elections when they were not satisfied with the results.Their corruption and unorganized system ultimately lead to their demise.
- In November 1799, in an event known as the coup of 18 Brumaire, Napoleon Bonaparte was part of a group that overthrew the French Directory. A three-member Consulate took power, and Napoleon became first consul, making him France’s leading political figure. This Coup marked the end of the French Revolution
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