French Revolution

By Traiday99
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    French Revolution

  • Estates-General

    Estates-General
    A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan.

  • Bastille

    Bastille
    The storming and fall of the Bastille.

  • National Assembly

    National Assembly
    The National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

  • Flight to Varennes

    Flight to Varennes
    Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette fled from their palace disguised as servants of the Russian Baroness de Korff.

  • New Constitution

    New Constitution
    King Louis XVI accepts the new constitution. He will sign it tomorrow.

  • The Attack on the Tuileries

    The Attack on the Tuileries
    More than two thirds of the Swiss Guard were slaughtered, many of them hacked to death by axe-wielding sans culottes.

  • Execution of Louis XVI

    Execution of Louis XVI
    Louis XVI is sentenced to the guillotine.

  • The Law of Suspects

    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

    The Queen’s Defense
    Seven months after the execution of the King, shortly after the declaration of "Revolutionary Government," the Convention turned to the rest of the royal family. Fearing that Marie Antoinette and her son, the nominal King, would provide rallying points for royalists within France and abroad, a Revolutionary Tribunal indicted Marie Antoinette and her children for treason. Two attorneys were assigned to prepare her defense.

  • Committee of Public Safety executed

    Committee of Public Safety executed
    Hébert and nineteen of his faction were guillotined.

  • Robespierre overthrown in France

    Robespierre overthrown in France
    Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention.

  • Versaille

    Versaille
    Women lead delegation to King in Versaille demanding bread. After scuffles, they are fobbed off by the King.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

  • National Convention

    The Convention nationale was a single-chamber assembly in France from 20 September 1792 to 26 October 179