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Louis XVI summons
may 5,1789 Louis XVI summons Estates -general for its first meeting since 1614 -
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french revolution
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troops storm
parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the bastille, a royal fortress that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the bourbon monarchs -
Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen
the representatives of the french people, organized in national Assembly, considering that ignorance, forgetfulness or contemptof the rights of a man are the sole causes of public miseries and the corruptionof goverments. -
Varennes fligt
The flight to varennes was the royal family's failed attempt to escape paris in june 1791 -
new constitution
King Lous XVI of france accepts the french constitution of 1791 named new constitution -
tuileries palace
on august 10th 1792 a little more than three years after their attack on bastille the people of paris laid siege to another royalist symbol.this time the target was the tuileries palace, the official residence of louis XVI and the home of the legislative -
King luois XVI Execution
1793 King Louis XVI executed -
law of suspect
the law of suspect is passed, authorizing the creaton of revolutionary tribunals to try those suspected of treason against the republic and to punish those convinced with death -
marie antoinette beheaded
nine months after the execution of her husband, the former king louis XVI of France, marie-antoinne follows him to the guilotine -
robespierre
robvespierre, the committee of public safety and jaybin club denounce the hebertists and dantonists on framed up charges and execute all the popular leaders. robespierre becomes virtually the dictator. -
robespierre overthrown
maximillen robespierre, the architect of the french revolution's reign of terror, is overthrown and arrested by the national convention. -
napoleon
on october 5 1795 napoleon was in paris when a large angry parisian mob of royalists tried to attack the ruling national convention at the tuileries palace. vicomte paul de barras, who had been at toulon and was impressed by napoleon's military -
the convention
the convention dissolves itself in favour of a dictatorship of the directorate
