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Estates-General convenes
They convened on may 5 1789 because France needed financial help. -
Third estate declares itself the national assembly
The first and second assembly would not allow the third to be part of theirs. -
Storming of the Bastille
French Revolutionaries needed gunpowder and they knew where to find it. -
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen issued
National Assembly issued this. -
Louis XVI executed
Citizen Louis Capet executed formely know as Louis XVI -
Maximilien Robespierre asuumes leadership of the Commitee of Public Safety
Commitee of Public Safety established. -
Robespierre is executed.
Robespierre is arrsted and executed without trial. -
Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power
Napoleon seizes power and the national commitee is dissolved, -
Napoleon is defeated by the British at the Battle of Waterloo
Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo and that marks the end of his rule of the French.