Chapter 1 Dates Flashcards
1788-1790
Massive harvest failure, this leads to problems as there is already very little money for everyone and a harvest failure leads to higher prices in bread which the poor can’t afford because there is so much tax. This makes the third estates (where most of the poor were) very angry and in a way mean they have less to lose.
20th June 1789
The tennis court oath, this was an act of defiance against the three estates. King Louis had arranged for the Estates-General to meet, this was where people from each estate meet and vote don matters but wasn’t fair because the clergy and nobility always outvoted the third estate and it was the same number of people for each estate. However The third estate found themselves looked up of this meeting so they went to a nearby tennis court where this swore they would force an new constitution on the king and they called themselves the National Assembly. It’s idea was that the power would be divided in a fair way. The nobility and clergy begin to aping at this.
14th July 1789
The storming of the bastille. This was when the third estate stormed the Bastille, a prison and weaponry, apparently to free prisoners. The prison was more of a sign of the dictatorial rule and burning and smashing the building was a defiant act. Some peeps say this is the turning point of the revolution. They also burnt the feudal
papers which were the papers listing which taxes were overdue. Some people also say the storming of the Bastille was just to get weapons.
June 20–21, 1791
Louis tries to flee France but gets caught at the border because he is recognised. He was going to flee to Austria because he has connections ( Marie Antoinette) there and then he could recapture his country. The people now hate him because he is seen as a traitor and a coward and abandoning his people. The guy who recognised him recognised him in Varennes. The King now lives in Paris so that the revolutionaries may keep an eye on him.
21 January 1793
Louis the sixteenth is executed.
1794 28th June
Robespierre is executed this is the end of the reign of terror and the end of the bloody French Revolution. Robespierre was the leader of the end French Revolution and had many people killed. He was overthrown just a day before.
5 of September 1793 to the 28th of July 1794
The red terror was a time in France where everyone was suspected of plotting against the revolution and many were killed for treachery. The period began after king Louis the 16th death and its first victim was Marie Antoinette. It’s leader was Robespierre who was the leader of the committee of public safety and was the most powerful man in France. The red terror and the French Revolution ended with Robespierre execution.
9th of November 1799
Napoleon Bonaparte uses soldiers to drive out the five hundred form their meeting place. A new government is formed where Bonaparte became the forts consul but in practice became the dictator.
1795-1799
France is governed by the committee of five directors and the assembly of five hundred. But neither are very good and people still want more reforms for the poor.
