Dec 29, 2009

French Revolution, The | Chronology

1789
May 5: The Estates-General convenes at Versailles.

June 17: The third estate declares itself the National Assembly of France.

June 20: The members of the new Assembly swear to the socalled Tennis Court Oath.

June 27: The king requests that all three estates meet again and votes be counted individually rather than by group.

July 14: Paris’s Bastille fortress surrenders to an angry mob.

Late July: The so-called Great Fear spreads through the countryside, igniting widespread peasant unrest...