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  • storming the Bastille

    storming the Bastille
    They stormed the bastille not to free any prisoners but to get ammunition and arms they say they stole over 30,000 pounds of gunpowder
  • women march on versailles

    women march on versailles
    The women’s march happened on In october 5 1789 that day over 7,000 women that marched dueto them paying too much for bread they had to pay 88 percent of their wages and they pay too much texes.
  • louis XVI Moves to Paris

    louis XVI Moves to Paris
    On 5 October 1789 a mob descended on Versailles and demanded that the royal family decamp to Paris. The King was transferred to the Tuileries Palace, before attempting to flee in June 1791. Arrested in Varennes, he was brought back to Paris.
  • Louis tries to escape

     Louis tries to escape
    The royal Flight to Varennes French: Fuite à Varennes during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI o
  • France Declares War on Austria and Prussia

    France Declares War on Austria and Prussia
    Eight months later, following a vote of the revolutionary-led Legislative Assembly, France declared war on Austria on 20 April 1792; Prussia, having allied with Austria in February, declared war on France in June 1792.
  • Louis XVI Executed

    Louis XVI Executed
    Ultimately unwilling to cede his royal power to the Revolutionary government, Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. He was guillotined on January 21, 1793.