1789: Major Events Of The French Revolution

The Major Events of the French Revolution are Call of the Estate General which was in May 5, 1789. The French Revolution began on account of King Louis XVI. France was losing a plenty of cash and was very nearly on the state of bankruptcy. The Tennis Court Oath that was on June 20, 1789. On 17 June 1789, the Third Estate, drove by Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, started to call themselves the National Assembly. Another occasion is The Storming of the Bastille which was on July 14, 1789. The Bastille is a French jail which is situated in Paris, France. On the afternoon of the fourteenth of July 1789 the Bastille was raged by an irate and forceful crowd. The new French constitution drafted by the National Assembly in 1789 set up the rule of popular government