Constitution of France
The 3rd Estate demands voting by head instead of by Estate
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
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Louis XVI Biography and Timeline — Page 2
Follow Louis XVI through 294 dated historical records for France.
Louis XVI, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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1789
Constitution of France
The 3rd Estate demands voting by head instead of by Estate.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Estates General
The 3rd Estate meets for the 1st time since 1614. The 3rd Estate demands voting by head instead of by Estate. The Estates General was organized into three estates, respectively: the clergy, the nobility, and the rest of France
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Estates General
The 3rd Estate meets for the 1st time since 1614. The 3rd Estate demands voting by head instead of by Estate. The Estates General was organized into three estates, respectively: the clergy, the nobility, and the rest of France.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Opening Address to Estates General
Louis XVI opened the Estates General and called on the assembled deputies to help resolve the kingdom's financial crisis.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Reform of Electoral System
The 3rd Estate demands voting by head instead of by Estate
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Reform of Electoral System
The 3rd Estate demands voting by head instead of by Estate.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Third Estate
The 3rd Estate meets for the 1st time since 1614. The 3rd Estate demands voting by head instead of by Estate
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Third Estate
The 3rd Estate meets for the 1st time since 1614. The 3rd Estate demands voting by head instead of by Estate.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Third Estate
The 3rd Estate demands voting by head instead of by Estate
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Third Estate
The French Revolution began in 1789 with the convocation of the Estates General
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Estates General Opens Path to Declaration of Rights
The Estates General opens the revolutionary process that leads to the National Assembly and the Declaration of Rights.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Estates General
The Estates General opened the revolutionary year that produced the National Assembly, Tennis Court Oath, Bastille uprising and Declaration of Rights.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Third Estate
The Third Estate’s challenge to the old order produced the National Assembly and a sequence of major revolutionary reforms.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Constitution of France
The commoners of the 3rd Estate declare themselves to be the National Assembly
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
National Assembly
The commoners of the 3rd Estate declare themselves to be the National Assembly
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Third Estate
The commoners of the 3rd Estate declare themselves to be the National Assembly
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Declaration of 3rd Estate
The Third Estate declared itself the National Assembly. After its meeting hall was closed, deputies regrouped in the nearby Jeu de Paume.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Declaration of 3rd Estate
The commoners of the 3rd Estate declare themselves to be the National Assembly. Closes the 3rd Estates meeting place, they re-group at the Louvre tennis court
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
National Assembly
The commoners of the 3rd Estate declare themselves to be the National Assembly
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Third Estate
The Third Estate declared itself the National Assembly. After its meeting hall was closed, deputies regrouped in the nearby Jeu de Paume.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Third Estate
The commoners of the 3rd Estate declare themselves to be the National Assembly. Closes the 3rd Estates meeting place, they re-group at the Louvre tennis court
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
National Assembly
The 3rd Estate, led by Honore Gabriel Riqueti, begin to call themselves the National Assembly
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
National Assembly
The 3rd Estate, led by Honore Gabriel Riqueti, begin to call themselves the National Assembly.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Reaction to National Assembly
Louis XVI refused to accept the Third Estate's unilateral transformation into a National Assembly.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Third Estate
The 3rd Estate, led by Honore Gabriel Riqueti, begin to call themselves the National Assembly
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Constitution of France
Members of the National Assembly swear not to disband until there is a constitution
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
National Assembly
Members of the National Assembly swear not to disband until there is a constitution
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Constitution of France
Members of the National Assembly swear not to disband until there is a constitution
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
National Assembly
Members of the National Assembly swear not to disband until there is a constitution
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Oath
Members of the National Assembly swear not to disband until there is a constitution
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Closure of Menus-Plaisirs Hall
Louis XVI's authorities closed the National Assembly's usual meeting hall before the royal session, prompting deputies to meet in the tennis court.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Constitution of France
Tennis Court Oath is both a revolutionary act, and an assertion that political authority derived from the people and their representatives rather than from the monarch himself
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Constitution of France
Tennis Court Oath is both a revolutionary act, and an assertion that political authority derived from the people and their representatives rather than from the monarch himself.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Tennis Court Oath
Tennis Court Oath is both a revolutionary act, and an assertion that political authority derived from the people and their representatives rather than from the monarch himself
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Tennis Court Oath
Tennis Court Oath, pledge signed by 576 out of the 577 members from the 3rd Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates General on 20 June 1789 in a tennis court.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath became a defining act in the Third Estate’s transformation into a national representative body.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Tennis Court Oath
on Versailles.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Third Estate Transformation Leads toward Rights Declaration
The Third Estate's transformation into the National Assembly leads toward constitutional reform and the August Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Third Estate
Tennis Court Oath, pledge signed by 576 out of the 577 members from the 3rd Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates General on 20 June 1789 in a tennis court.
Role range: 1789-1792 – 1774-1792
Records, sources and methodology
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