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 ReformsConfiscation 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)
September Massacres (1792)
• 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
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)
1799- Coup d’etat by Napoleon Bonaparte
• The people are
tired of chaos,
want stability
• Bonaparte is a
war hero
Effects of Revolution
Immediate Effects
Long term effects
• End of ancien regime
• Conservative reaction
• Execution of
Monarchs
• Decline of French power
• War with First
Coalition
• Reign of Terror
• Rise of Napoleon
• Spread of Enlightenment
ideas
• Growth of Nationalism
• Rise of International
Organizations
• Revolutions in Latin America