A event in 1788 created during the The Enlightenment.
Cause
- Upper class royalty living lavish lifestyle
- Lower class working hellish conditions
- French in a poorer state after the Seven Years War
- Monarchy starts to tax the poor for arbitrary conditions
- Collection of natural disasters make farm conditions poor
Events
- Poor start to riot
- Estates of Realm hold a meeting, unfair reprsentation of the poor
- Poor create a National Assembly - their own government, locked down by the upper class
- Financial minister that wanted to change things was dismissed
- Revolution creates a national guard, many french guard converts to revolutionary side
- July 14 1789, raiding military hospital to get weaponry
- Revolution raid the Bastille to get weaponry
- National assembly creates Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- Women demanded audience with king in Versaille, king moved to Paris
- King let into revolutionary demand
- King and queen flee to Austria, caught
- Revolutionary protest, revolutionary national guard fires upon own revolutionaries causing massacre
- Revolution is split into radicals and moderates
- French goes to war with Austria, fails
- King and queen arrested
- The Enlightenment moves
- Aristocrats and clerics massacred
- King and queen is beheaded
- Conscript for war with Prussia, small groups grow disparate and create their own militaries
- Moderates overthrown
- Main radical figurehead killed, start of Reign of Terror
- Maximilien Robespierre killed, end of reign of terror
- Moderates take rise
- Napoleon overthrows moderates