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French Revolution
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Estates-General
A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan. -
Bastille.
The storming and fall of the Bastille. -
National Assembly
The National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man -
Louis XVI
Louis and his family were promptly detained and hustled back to Paris under guard. The flight to Varennes, though minor in itself, signed the death warrant for bourgeois dreams of a French constitutional monarchy. The king had attempted to flee the revolution and could no longer be trusted. His working alliance with the National Constituent Assembly and his acceptance of the Constitution of 1791 were exposed as fraudulent. - See more at: http://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/flight-to-varenne -
French Constitution of 1791
created after the collapse of the Absolute Monarchy of the Ancien Régime. One of the basic precepts of the revolution was adopting constitutionality and establishing popular sovereignty. -
fall of french monarchy
the fall of the French monarchy after storming the Tuileries Palace by the National Guard of the Insurrectional Paris Commune and revolutionary fédérés from Marseilles and Brittany. King Louis XVI and the royal family took shelter with the Legislative Assembly, which was suspended. -
King Louis XVI executed
One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. -
Reign of Terror
was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and The Mountain, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution". The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine (2,639 in Paris),[ and another 25,000 in summary executions across France. -
Marie-Antoinette
Marie-Antoinette tried and executed. -
Robespierre
Robespierre, the Committee of Public Safety and Jacobin Club denounce the Hébertists and Dantonists on framed-up charges and execute all the popular leaders. Robespierre becomes virtually the dictator. -
Arrest of Robespierre.
Convention calls for arrest of Robespierre. Robespierre attempts insurrection which flops, is arrested and executed. After about 150 of his supporters are done away with, the Terror is over. -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Royalists attempt a coup and Napoleon Bonaparte makes his name suppressing the move with grapeshot. The popular party gains strength, Gracchus Babeuf is its spokesperson, holding running meetings at the Pantheon. -
Convention
The Convention dissolves itself in favour of a dictatorship of the Directorate.
