1789 ⟶ Third Estate Calls for Joint Meeting of Estates-General
June 10: At the suggestion of Sieyès, the Third Estate deput...
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1789
🗣️ Third Estate Calls for Joint Meeting of Estates-General
🏛️ Third Estate Deputies Refuse Separate Assembly, Demand Joint Session
May 6: The Deputies of the Third Estate refuses to meet separately from the other Estates, occupy the main hall, and invite the clergy and nobility to join them.⟶
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🏛️ Jean Sylvain Bailly Elected Leader of Third Estate
June 3: The scientist Jean Sylvain Bailly is chosen the leader of the Third Estate deputies.⟶
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🤝 Clerical Deputies Join the Third Estate
June 13–14: Nine deputies from the clergy decide to join the meeting of the Third Estate.⟶
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🏛️ Third Estate Declares National Assembly
June 17: On the proposal of Sieyès, the deputies of the Third Estate declare themselves the National Assembly. To ensure popular support, they decree that taxes need only be paid while the Assembly is in session.⟶
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🤝 Clergy Joins Third Estate in National Assembly
June 19: By a vote of 149 to 137, the deputies of the clergy join the assembly of the Third Estate.⟶
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