dipity

By Austin Jones and Zach Scannapeico

Created by austinpowers1734 on Jan 10, 2011

Last updated: 01/11/11 at 12:45 PM

Tags: Tennis court oath

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Jan 10, 2011 12:28 PM

• Reign of Terror
  Jul 1793

  The committee of Public Safety's chief task was to protect the Revolution from its enemies. The extension of civil war and the advance of foreign armies on national territory produced a political crisis

• National Governement takes office
  Feb 1793

  The French army won against the Austrians and Prussians at the battle of Valmy. Had a enormous army 800,000 strong.

• The Jacobins take control
  Sep 1792

  Marat called for the death of all those who continued to support the king. The Jacobins was a club of radicals, and they supported the national assembly, not the king. They took control of Paris and imprisoned many nobles.

• Womens March
  Jul 1, 1792

  The legislative Assemble declared war. Massive mobs attack the Royal family. 20,000 men and women invaded Tuileries, and took the family captive. They were demonstrating for the lower bread prices. With a variety of allies, the mostly female crowd moved to the royal residence at Versailles where they made their demands to the King and Queen.

• France's Government Changes
  Sep 1791

  The government became a legislative assembly. Sans-culottes began to exert their power in the streets.

• Louis's Attempted Escape
  Jun 21, 1791

  The National Assembly restructured the relationship between the Church and the State. King Louis began pondering his fate as a monarch, and he was warned that it was no longer safe for him in France. Louis was caught trying to escape, and it increased the influence of his enemies.

• The Great Fear
  Oct 5, 1789

  The great Fear was a wave of senseless panic that basically turned peasants into outlaws. They all gathered pitchforks and ruined any documents that nobles had bounding them to pay feudal dues.

• Declaration of Rights of Man
  Aug 29, 1789

  The National Assembly adopted a statement of revolutionary ideals, it stated that all men are born free and remain free and equal in rights. The Declaration included liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression as rights.

• Storming of Bastille
  Jul 14, 1789

  Rumors went around quick in France. People were saying that King Louis was intent on using military force to dismiss the National Assembly. Other rumors suggested that foreign troops were on their way to Paris to massacre French Citizens. On July 14th, a mob took over the Bastille, which was a big Prison, and killed the commanders of it and held their heads high on pikes.

• Tennis Court Oath
  Jun 20, 1789

  The third estate Delegates were locked out of their meeting room, so they broke down a door to an indoor tennis court and decided that they were not to leave until they had a new constitution.