A timeline of the French Revolution

By jacob meador

  • Start of the revolution

    Bad harvest and wars that lead deep in expenses forced King Louis XVI to join the meeting of the three states in order to raise taxes.

  • Tennis Court National Association

    Resolves to not disband until it has a written constitution.

  • Bastille Stormed

    Bastille stormed and taken by a Paris mob.

  • Jacobin Club

    Nobles in national assembly renounce feudal rights.

  • Declaration of Man

    Assembly issues Declaration of Rights of Man.
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    King Louis is moved.

    King Louis brought from Versailles to Tuileries palace in Paris.
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    King flees

    King flees to Austria, is caught at Varennes