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French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799. -
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National Assembly
During the French Revolution, the National Assembly, which existed from 13 June 1789 to 9 July 1789, was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General; thereafter it was known as the National Constituent Assembly, though popularly the shorter form persisted. -
Tennis Court Oath
The members of the French Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath. -
Storming the Bastille
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. -
Declaration of the Rights of the Man
The Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen of 1789, set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution. The Declaration was drafted by General Lafayette, Thomas Jefferson, and Honoré Mirabeau. -
Legislative Assembly
The Legislative Assembly first met on 1 October 1791, elected by those 4 million men – out of a population of 25 million – who paid a certain minimum amount of taxes. Under the Constitution of 1791, France would function as a constitutional monarchy. -
National Convention
Late in August 1792, elections were held, now under male universal suffrage, for the new National Convention, which replaced the Legislative Assembly on 20 September 1792. -
Execution of Louis XVI
The execution of Louis XVI, by means of the guillotine, a major event of the French Revolution, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution in Paris. The National Convention had convicted the king in a near-unanimous vote and condemned him to death by a simple majority. -
Committee of Public Safety
Reated in April 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793 formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror, a stage of the French Revolution. -
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Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror, or The Terror, is the label given by most historians to a period during the French Revolution after the First French Republic was established. -
Constitution of 1795
French constitution established during the Thermidorian Reaction in the French Revolution. Known as the Constitution of Year III in the French republican calendar, it was prepared by the Thermidorian Convention. It was more conservative than the abortive democratic Constitution of 1793. -
French Directory
The Directory or Directorate was a five-member committee which governed France from 1795, when it replaced the Committee of Public Safety. On 9 November 1799, it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by the French Consulate. -
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Directory
The Directory or Directorate was a five-member committee which governed France from 1795, when it replaced the Committee of Public Safety. On 9 November 1799, it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by the French Consulate. -
Emperor of France
Nepolian became the emperor of France and was loved by the French, and was known as an absolute ruler. -
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Age of Napoleon
The Napoleonic era begins roughly with Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état, overthrowing the Directory, establishing the French Consulate, and ends during the Hundred Days and his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
