French Revolution

1788: Financial Crisis

May 5, 1789: The meeting of the Estates General

June 20, 1789: Tennis Court Oath (Creation of National Assembly)

July 14, 1789: The Storming of the Bastille

July/August 1789: The Great Fear

Aug. 4, 1789: Nobles give up privileges, end of feudal old regime

Aug. 27, 1789: Declaration of the Rights of Man

October 4, 1789: Women’s March to Versailles

Nov. 1789, July 1790: Church Reforms- Confiscation of Church Lands Resolves Financial Crisis

June 20, 1791: The Flight to Varennes (Louis XIV & family attempt to leave France)

April 1792: Legislative Assembly declares war on Austria and Prussia

August 10, 1792: 2nd time mobs storm Tuileries Palace, imprison King & family (end of monarchy)

• Sept 2:Danton speaks out against those who oppose revolution

• Rallying cry in streets: “Let the blood of traitors flow…”

• By Sept. 7, 1000 dead

September Massacres (1792)

January 23, 1793 The Execution of Louis XVI by guillotine

1793-1795 Reign of Terror (thousands of suspected anti-revolutionaries executed)

"Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.“"Softness to traitors will destroy us all."- Maximilien Robespierre

1795-1799 The Directory (weak and ineffective committee gov’t)

• The people are tired of chaos, want stability• Bonaparte is a war hero

1799- Coup d’etat by Napoleon Bonaparte

Long term effects• Conservative reaction• Decline of French power• Spread of

Enlightenment ideas• Growth of Nationalism• Rise of International

Organizations• Revolutions in Latin

America

Immediate Effects• End of ancien

regime• Execution of

Monarchs• War with First

Coalition• Reign of Terror• Rise of Napoleon

Effects of Revolution