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Tennis Court Oath
the 3rd estate of the Estates General met in a commercial tennis court and swore an oath declaring they would remain until France had a constitution. -
Storming of the Bastille
The royal prison and towering figure of the oppression of the King and royal order. -
October Days/Women's March to Versailles
A women of 7,000 marched to the Palace in Versailles demanding the price of bread and food for the people. -
Flight To Varennes
Royal family attempted to escape revolutionary France to Austria. -
Champ de Mars Massacres
A group of people gathered to sign a petition for a republican constitution. -
Storming of the Tuileries
The popular movement (sans-culottes) marched into the Kings Tuileries Palace and demanded that he wear the red bonnet as a symbol of the revolution. -
The formation of the Insurrectionary Commune
the 48 local councils of Paris merged into one radical body - a virtual parliament. They demanded to be recognised as the governing body/parliament for the working people. -
Overthrow of the Monarchy
The Insurrectionary Commune organised 20,000 people for a demonstration against the King. -
September Massacres
caused by the imminent threat of invasion by Austrian/Prussian forces and the paranoia and terror as a result -
Republic is declared
The National Convention was set up, elected by universal male suffrage to provide a new constitution after the deposition of the King.