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June 1791
Since the Revolution had begun, the royal family had to escape because people were trying to kill them. In October the royal family had to evacuate to the Tuileries Palace after Versailles had been attacked by another mob. They increasingly felt themselves prisoners and by 1791 they decided that they must escape the capital. -
August 4th 1789
One of the main events of the French Revolution was to take out the feudalism, and the old rules, taxes and privileges left over from the age of feudalism. The National Assembly announced on this day: "The National Assembly abolishes the feudal system entirely."It took away both the rights of the Second Estate and the tithes gathered by the First Estate. -
May 5th 1789
A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan. There was a meeting with representatives of each Estate, and even though the Third Estate represented almost all the population, they voted and the First and Second Estate won with their idea of leaving it the way they wanted. -
June 17th 1789
King Louis the XVI closed out the Third Estate of any decision making, they found that unfair and they had no voice. They named themselves the National Assembly on this day to help those who did not have a voice and have a group against the rulers f France and the corruption. -
July 14th 1789
The Storming of the Bastille was in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and political prison; the Bastille represented royal authority and was a political symbol to the French. The attack was a symbol of abuses by the monarchy; its fall was the when the French Revolution began to form. The people attacked it in a form of protest. -
August 27th 1789
The National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man. It was passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a important document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. It was to give rights to men and respect their human rights. -
September 1791
The French Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France, created after the end of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime. The National Assembly began drafting a constitution. The Declaration of the Rights of Man, eventually became a big part of the constitution adopted on 3 September 1791 -
April 1792
In 1792, Europeans suspected about France. They had seen the how they overthrew Louis XVI and were worried that revolution would spread to their countries.On April 20, 1792, the Legislative Assembly (France's governing body, formed in 1791) declared war on Austria. -
August 1792
The Insurrection of 10 August 1792 was one of the ending events in the history of the French Revolution. The storming of the Tuileries Palace by the National Guard of the insurrectional Paris Commune and revolutionary fédérés from Marseille and Brittany resulted in the fall of the French monarchy. The royal family took shelter with the Legislative Assembly, which was suspended. -
September 1792
The September Massacres were a lot of killings in Paris and other cities in 1792, during the French Revolution. There was a fear that foreign and royalist armies would attack Paris and that the inmates of the city's prisons would be freed and join them. Other countries started to declare war on France after the fall of the absolute monarchy.
