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Events of the Revolution (put them in a timeline)

These are the Events of the French Revolution that you will have to put in the timeline:

Monarchy

Estates-General

  • Meeting of the Estates General (May 1789)
  • Voting problem
  • The Third Estate continued alone: new name -> The National Assembly is proclaimed.
  • The king ordered the closure of the Meeting room
  • Tennis Court Oath (20th June 1789)

National Assembly (Constitutional Monarchy)

Constituent Assembly (1789-1791)

  • 9th July 1789 The National Assembly decided to write a Constitution
  • Storming of the Bastille (14th July 1789) (Mass of the streets from Paris)
  • La Grande Peur (August 1789) (People from the countryside) ->
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen -> Abolition of Feudalism
  • Flight to Varennes (June 1791).

Legislative Assembly (1791-1792)

  • Division between Jacobins and Girondins.
  • War against Austria, 1792 (International opposition). Austrian and Prussian troops were moving closer to Paris.
  • Riots of August 1792 (Storming of the Tuileries). The Second French Revolution.

First Republic

Convention

Girondin Convention (1792-93)

  • Massacres of September. 1,500 people were assassinated while they were in prison.
  • The National Convention is proclaimed (September 1792)
  • Trial against the King (December 1792)
  • War Against many European countries (Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, Spain…)
  • Anthem of the Marseillaise (song for the war).

Jacobin Convention (1793-95)

  • The Jacobins controlled the Convention
  • Levée en masse (24 feb 1793)
  • Counter-Revolutionary movement (War in the Vendée) (Internal Opposition)
  • Reign of Terror and dictatorship or Robespierre (40,000 people were guillotined).
  • July 1794: Thermidorian Reaction. Coup d’état of the Girondists.

Directory (1795-1799)

  • The Convention was replaced by the Directory. (The government is held by five directors -> directory)
  • Execution of Robespierre and persecution of the Jacobins, (period known as the white terror).
  • Moderate Republican Government
  • There were Wars against European countries, which were defeated by Napoleon.
  • Unstable period: opposition from royalists and jacobins
  • Napoleon is seen as a triumphant general.
  • November 1799: Coup d’état of Brumaire by Napoleon (18 Brumaire Year VIII). The new era of Napoleon has started with the Consulate.

Consulate (1799-1804)

  • Napoleon became first consul with two consuls appointed by him.
  • Appearance of a democratic system, but in fact it was a dictatorship.

Empire (1804 - 1814)

  • Napoleon is crowned emperor on 2nd December 1804.

Restoration (1814)

  • After the defeat in the battle of Leipzig Napoleon is sent into exile and the Bourbons are restored back in France.

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