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The French Revolution Started
The French Revolution started in 1789 when the peasant and everyone but the queen and the king started to die of starvation and neither the queen of the king did anything so they got mad -
The Third Estate declares the National Assembly
The failure of the first estate the third estate assembled and went against the first estate -
Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath demanding certain rights from the king
the third estate said they would not disable until a new French constitution had been adopted -
The Storming of the Bastille
The Storming of the Bastille took place in Paris, France on This violent attack on the government by the people of France signaled the start of the French -
The National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
the French National Constituent Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution -
Attempt to flee France they are captured and returned to France
during the night was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, his queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution -
The Legislative Assembly is formed
The National Assembly played a major role in the French Revolution. It represented the common people of France (also called the Third Estate) and demanded that the king make economic reforms to insure that the people had food to eat. -
The guillotine becomes the official method of execution
The guillotine, which came to symbolize the French Revolution, was first used in Joseph Ignace Guillotine, the guillotine was meant to be a humane form of capital punishment because it reduced suffering. During the Revolution -
The National Convention is established
It formed following the end of the Legislative Assembly and would later be replaced by the Directory. The National Convention was extremely important to the events of the French Revolution Second, the first major act of the convention was to abolish the absolute monarchy and to transform France into a republic -
The First French Republic is founded
The resulting Convention was founded with the dual purpose of abolishing the monarchy and drafting a new constitution. The Convention's first act, on 10 August 1792, was to establish the French First Republic and officially strip the king of all political powers -
King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine
One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris On January 21, he walked steadfastly to the guillotine and was executed -
The Committee of Public Safety will rule France during the Reign of Terror
The Committee of Public Safety , created in April 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793, formed the de facto, interim, and executive government in France during the Reign of Terror a stage of the French Revolution.
