French Revolution Timeline

By Robert25
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    French Revolution

  • Meeting of Estates General

  • Third Estate declares itself National Assembly

  • Tennis Court Oath

  • Fall of the Bastille

  • Assembly adoptes the Dec. of the Rights of Man and Citizen

  • Parisian women march on Versailles

  • Tricolor is declared national flag

  • Black citizens granted equal rights

  • Royal Family attempts to flee France

  • National Guard fires on crowd protesting restoration of king

  • France declares war on Austria and Prussia

  • King Louis's trial begins

  • King is executed

  • France declares war on England and the Netherlands

  • The Terror begins

  • Revolutionary courts declare death sentence on challengers of Robespierre

  • Marie Antoinette is executed

  • Robespierre is executed

  • France adopts a new constitution

  • Napolean becomes a leader