July 4 1789- Storming of Bastille- see your research. know that France lost their governor, secretory of state, and mayor of Paris
July 17- The Great Fear- the peasantry revolt against the feudalism and a number of urban disturbances and revolts. Many members of the aristocracy flee pairs to become emegres- someone who has migrated out of an area voluntary......emigrant
August 26- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is adopted by the assembly- is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of realm as universal
Legislative- late 1789- emigres are required to return back to Paris with the threat of death if they didn't return, the king is still scared to return so he removes the idea that hey have to come back, This allowed for new blood (3rd estate) to become part of the legislative assembly
Women's March on Versailles- also known was The October March, The October Days, or simply the March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution, The march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris who on the morning of October 5 1789 were rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread, the market women and their various allies grew into a mob of thousands and encouraged by revolutionary agitators, they ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the palace of Versailles, the next day the crowd compelled the king, his family and most of the French Assembly to return with them to Parsi, these events effectively ended the independent authority of the King
August 10 1792 and September Massacres in 1792
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