French Revolution

  • Estates General Meets

  • Tennis Court Oath

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    National Assembly

  • Jacques Necker dismissed as finance minister

  • Storming of the Bastille

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    The Great Fear

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

  • Women's March on Versaille

  • Nancy Mutiny

  • Flight to Varennes

  • Declaration of Pillnitz

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    Legislative Assembly

  • Brunswick Manifesto

  • Storming of the Tuileries Palace/Insurrection

  • Lafayette flees France

  • Battle of Verdun

  • September Massacres

  • Battle of Valmy

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    National Convention

  • Battle of Jemappes

  • Louis XVI executed

  • Committee of Public Safety formed

  • Jean-Paul Marat assassinated

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    The Reign of Terror

  • Marie Antoinette executed

  • Jacques Pierre Brissot executed

  • Maximilien Robespierre executed