1788: Financial Crisis May 5, 1789: The meeting of the Estates General.

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