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Summoning of the States-General
Louis the sixteenth summoned the esates general to help with the econimic crisis that was plagueing France by his own frivilious spending. -
Third State declares itself the National Assembly
The third estate which held 98 percent of the population declares it's new federal power. -
The Stroming of the Bastille
The peasant class stromed the fortified prison the Bastille looking for gunpowder to begin the French Revolution -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Written documents declaring all men equal. -
Louis XVI executed
The current Monarch of France was executed by the people for crimes against France. -
Maximilien Robespirre assumes leadership of the committee of Public Safety
One of the prime voices of the Revolution claims the mantle of the leader of the most pwoerful group in France at the time. -
Robespierre is guillotined
Robespierre is killed after he becomes widely unpopular. -
Napoleon Bonaparte coup d' etate
The French general Napoleon Bonaparte initiates a cue and takes control of the government. To many this is the end of the "French Revolution". -
Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power
The prodigal Corisican general takes power in the French government becoming emperor.
