the french revolution
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- may 5th,1789
- June 20th , 1789
- give me back my constitution.
- , the Estates-General convened for several weeks in May and June 1789. In 1787, pressured by France's desperate financial situation,the King convened an Assembly of Notables. ... On May 5, 1789, the Estates-General convened.
- Tennis Court Oath, French Serment du Jeu de Paume, (June 20, 1789), dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the nonprivileged classes of the French nation (the Third Estate) during the meeting of the Estates-General (traditional assembly) at the beginning of the French Revolution.
- , France on July 14, 1789. This violent attack on the government by the people of France signaled the start of the French Revolution. What was the Bastille? ... By the late 1700s, the Bastille was mostly used as a state prison by King Louis XVI.
- After the storming of the Bastille, the next significant event of the French Revolution occurred on August 4, 1789. On that day, the National Constituent Assembly adopted 18 decrees or articles – The August Decrees – concerning the abolition of feudalism, other privileges of the nobility, and seigneurial rights.
- The last article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted on the 26 of August 1789 by the National Constituent Assembly, during the period of the French Revolution, as the first step toward writing a constitution for France.
- Image result for October 5, 1789Concerned over the high price and scarcity of bread, women from the marketplaces of Paris led the March on Versailles on October 5, 1789. This became one of the most significant events of the French Revolution, eventually forcing the royals to return to Paris.
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