This chronology cover the main events and structure of our topic time period 1774-1815.
This second phase 1789 to 1792, the early modernising and reforming period of French Revolution from the Storming of the Bastille to the creation of the Republic in 1792.
The role of the Estates General and the king and the creation of the National Assembly and the Tennis Court Oath are the first topics to be examined. We’ll then judge who were the Sans-cullottes and the Parisian mob and their role in creating change in the revolutionary period.
The end of this topic will be the increasing radicalisation of the Revolution as a response to several failures and the war all culminating in the creation of the First French Republic.
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The French Revolution: from Monarchy to Republic, 1789–1792
• The calling of the Estates General and the creation of the National Assembly
• The importance of the Parisian crowd and peasant risings
• Reforms leading to the establishment of the Constitutional monarchy in 1791
• The radicalisation of the Revolution: the impact of religious change, the war againstAustriaandPrussia, the growing dominance of the sans-culottes
• The creation of the Republic