Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these events of the French Revolution in order.
- The night of 4 August abolishes seigneurial privilege
- The Declaration of the Rights of Man is adopted
- The Tuileries is stormed and the monarchy ends in practice
- The third estate swears the Tennis Court Oath
- The Estates General meets for the first time since 1614
- Louis XVI is executed
- The Bastille falls to a Parisian crowd
Hints
- Five of these fall within four months of one another.
- The Estates General in May 1789, the oath 20 June, the Bastille 14 July, 4 August, the Declaration 26 August, the Tuileries 10 August 1792, the execution January 1793.
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- The Estates General meets for the first time since 1614
- The third estate swears the Tennis Court Oath
- The Bastille falls to a Parisian crowd
- The night of 4 August abolishes seigneurial privilege
- The Declaration of the Rights of Man is adopted
- The Tuileries is stormed and the monarchy ends in practice
- Louis XVI is executed
Why
The compression of 1789 is the striking thing: a fiscal meeting in May has become a national assembly by June, a popular insurrection by July, and the abolition of an entire legal order by August. Everything from 1792 onward happens at a slower pace against far greater resistance.
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