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Period: 2021 BCE to 2022 BCE
1793
January 21, 1793. Execution of Louis XVI. After being tried and condemned by the Convention, and all the maneuvers of the moderates to save his life failed, the king was guillotined in the Plaza de la Revolución at ten o'clock and twenty-two minutes. The roll of drums prevents your voice from being heard. The executioner raises his head before a shocked crowd, who learned that same morning of the murder of the deputy Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau by a former bodyguard. -
Period: 2021 BCE to 2022 BCE
1780s
The situation worsened in the 1780s, after a series of bad harvests, which produced a rise in prices, especially bread. -
Period: 2021 BCE to 2022 BCE
1789.
June 20, 1789. Oath of the Jeu de Paume. -
Period: 2021 BCE to 2022 BCE
1789
July 14, 1789. Storming of the Bastille. -
Period: 2021 BCE to 2022 BCE
1789.
August 26, 1789. The National Constituent Assembly of France approves the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. 17 articles that broke with absolutism equalizing all citizens before the law and establishing popular sovereignty. -
Period: 2021 BCE to 2022 BCE
1789.
October 5, 1789,The march on Versailles was an event that took place from October 5 to 6, 1789 at the Palace of Versailles within the framework of the French Revolution. ... The protesters quickly joined the revolutionaries demanding liberal political reforms and a constitutional monarchy for France -
Period: 2021 BCE to 2022 BCE
1791
On the night of June 21, 1791, Louis XVI and his family left Paris in secret, in a carriage bound for the border. When they had almost reached the finish line, they were recognized and arrested. -
Period: 2021 BCE to 2022 BCE
1791
The French Constitution of 1791, the first written constitution in French history, was promulgated by the National Constituent Assembly on September 3, 1791 and accepted by Louis XVI. It contained the reform of the French State, leaving France configured as a constitutional monarchy. -
Period: 2021 BCE to 2022 BCE
1792
The day of August 10, 1792 was an insurrection, during the French Revolution, which ended the monarchy of Louis XVI, so it is also -
Period: 2021 BCE to 2022 BCE
1792
The coalition began with the invasion of French territory by Austria and Prussia, and as an offensive response France declared war on the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria on April 20, 1792, a war that was soon joined by the Kingdom of Prussia, Great Britain, Spain and other states.