Chapter 18 The French Revolution Chapter 18 The French Revolution.
French Revolution
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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