french revolution timeline
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- May 5, 1789
- June 20, 1789
- July 14, 1789
- The king of France, Louis XVI (1754 - 1793), had been having enormous money problems for years. On the one hand, he was financing his luxurious lifestyle at the Palace of Versailles, and on the other hand, France's military involvement in the American War of Independence (1775 - 1783) had created large debts. On May 5, 1789, he invited the three
- August 26, 1789
- , or by estate, in which case the two privileged orders of the realm might outvote the thirdThird Estate on May 5, 1789. They were immediately divided over a fundamental issue: should they vote by head, giving the advantage to the Versailles met at Estates-GeneralThe
- October 5, 1789
- French Revolution, a royal fortress and prison that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This dramatic action signaled the beginning of the BastilleParisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the
- June 20, 1791
- The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man, in order that this declaration, being constantly before all the members of the Social body
- The Women’s March on Versailles was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. On the morning of October 5, 1789, women were near rioting in the Paris marketplace over the high price and scarcity of bread. Their demonstrations quickly became intertwined with the activities of revolutionaries, who were seeking liberal political reforms and a constitutional monarchy for France.
- French constitution created by the National Assembly during the French Revolution. It retained the monarchy, but sovereignty effectively resided in the Legislative Assembly, which was elected by a system of indirect voting
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