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Formation of the national assembly
A revolutionary assembly formed by the third estate -
tennis court oath
The members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly -
Bastille is stormed
The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris -
Declaration of the rights of man
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. -
King Removed From Versailles
The French Revolution Ended With the Departure of the king.On October 5 Women marched to the palace. -
First use of the guillotine
Convicted felon Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person to be executed by the guillotine. -
Execution of King Louis XVI
He got his head chopped of by a guillotine. He was Executed because of treason -
Establishment of the committee of Public Saftey
Protected the newly Established Republic From foreign attacks.twelve members are given board supervisory powers. -
Republican calendar began
The revolutionary system was designed in part to remove all religious and royalist influences from the calendar -
Robespierre Killed
As the leading member of the Committee of Public Safety from 1793, Robespierre encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than 17,000 enemies of the Revolution -
Establishment of the directery
French Directorate, the French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years, from November 1795 to November 1799. -
Napoleonic code started
French civil code established under Napoleon in 1804. It was drafted by a commission of four eminent jurists and entered into force. -
napoleon becomes emperor
Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor. -
Continental system
The Continental System or Continental Blockade. -
Napoleon Exiled
French Emperor Napoleon I was exiled to Elba after his forced abdication. -
Waterloo
Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. -
Napoleon death
He died of stomach cancer.