French Revolution Timeline

By janessa.scott
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    French Revolution

  • King Louis XVI calls a meeting of the estates general

  • Tennis Court Oath

  • The storming of the Bastille

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man & Citizen

  • Royal family forced to leave Versailles by mob of women demanding bread

  • National Assembly issues a new constitution creating a constitutional monarchy

  • Execution of Louis XVI

  • The reign of terror begins

  • Execution of Robespierre

  • Reign of terror ends

  • Rule of directory begins

  • Napoleon’s takeover of the directory in a coup d’etat

  • Battle of Trafalgar

  • Napoleon abdicates and goes into exile to the island of Elba

  • Battle of Waterloo