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the estates General meeting- Bastille Day
Meeting that reunited an equal number of reprentatives from each Estate to solve this serious political crisis -
Storming of the Basyille
The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the hidtory of human civil rights. -
Flight to Varennes
Royal family's failed attempt to escape Paris in June 1791 -
King formally accepts Constitution .
King Louis XVI accepts the new contitution.he will sign it tomorrow. -
The Attack on the Tuileries
The National Gard and mob of Parisians invaded the residence of the royal family [Tuileries inParis]. -
Execution of Louis XVI
Louis was arrested, interned in the Temple prision with his family, tried for high treason before the National Convention, convicted in a near-unanimous vote, and condemned to death by a slight majority. His execution made him the first victim of the Reign of Terror. His wife Marie Antoinete was guillotined on 16 Oct. -
The Law of Suspects
Authorized the creation of revolutionary tribunals to try those suspected of treason against the Republic and to punish those convicted with death -
The queen's Defense
A Revolutionary Tribunal indicated Marie Antoniette and her children for treason. -
Robespierre becomes dictator
Robespierre, the Committe of Public safety and Jacobin Club denounce the Hebertist and Dantotists on framed-up charges and execute all the popular leaders. Robespierre becomes virtually the dictator -
Robespierre overthrown in France
Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the NAtional Convention. -
Vendemiaire
13 Vendemiare Year is the name given to a battle between the French Revolutionary Troops and Royalist forces in the streets of Paris -
The Convention disolves itself in favour of a dictactorship of the Directorate.
The Convention disolves itself in favour of a dictactorship of the Directorate.