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The Estates-General meets at Versailles.
This assembly was composed of three estates the clergy, nobility, and commoners, who had the power to decide on the levy of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country. -
The storming of the Bastille prison.
People feared that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France's newly constituted National Assembly, led a crowd of Parisians to besiege the Bastille successfully -
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The Moderate Phase
The moderate phase of the French Revolution was the period of mostly liberal but moderate reforms from 1789 to 1791 during the French Revolution that turned France into a Constitutional monarchy. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is adopted.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution. -
The monarchy is overthrown and the First French Republic is established.
This proclaimed the abolition of the monarchy and established the French Republic. -
Jacobins attacked the royal residence in Paris and arrested the king
On the domestic front, meanwhile, the political crisis took a radical turn when a group of insurgents led by the extremist Jacobins attacked the royal residence in Paris and arrested the king on August 10, 1792. -
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Radical Period
The overthrow of the Legislative Assembly and suspension of King Louis XVI, turning France into a republic, -
The Jacobins seized control of the National Convention
The Jacobins seized control of the National Convention from the more moderate Girondins and instituted a series of radical measures, including the establishment of a new calendar and the eradication of Christianity. -
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The Reign of Terror.
The Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety. -
Robespierre was executed
Robespierre and a number of his followers were arrested at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris. The next day Robespierre and 21 of his followers were taken to the Place de la Révolution (now the Place de la Concorde), where they were executed by guillotine before a cheering crowd. -
Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power.
coup d'état that overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte. -
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Napoleonic era
Napoleon's armies conquered the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, occupied lands, and he forced Austria, Prussia, and Russia to ally with him and respect French hegemony in Europe. -
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of France.
Napoleon and Joséphine were crowned Emperor and Empress of the French in 1804 at Notre-Dame de Paris in Paris. It marked "the instantiation of the modern empire" and was a "transparently masterminded piece of modern propaganda".