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Execution of Robespierre
Having carried the day in the Jacobin Club, Robespierre rose to speak the next day in the Convention, where he attacked members of the Committee of Public Safety and Committee of General Security, until now his closest collaborators, for their extreme use of the Terror. He also hinted that such "terrorists" should be purged from the Convention. -
Louis XVL Calls the Estate General
Louis's attempts to control it resulted in the Tennis Court Oath and the declaration of the National Constituent Assembly on 9 July. Within three short months, the majority of the king's executive authority had been transferred to the elected representatives of the people's nation. The storming of the Bastille on 14 July served to reinforce and emphasize this radical change in the mind of the masses. Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_Louis_XVI_call_the_estate_generals_in_1789#ixzz2 -
Third Estae Form Nation Assembly and take Tennis court oath
The Third Estate, which had the most representatives, declared itself the National Assembly and took an oath to force a new constitution on the king. Initially seeming to yield, Louis legalized the National Assembly under the Third Estate but then surrounded Versailles with troops and dismissed Jacques Necker, a popular minister of state who had supported reforms. -
Storing Of Bastile
The storming of the Bastille prison on July 14th 1789 was an event that paved the way to further civil disorder and upheaval in France. It is from here on that the revolution took on a snowball effect slowly spilling over the whole of France and transforming what was still then an oppressive monarchist regime. -
March On Versailles
a large group of French women came together in the central marketplace of Paris. What followed was the March to Versailles, one of the most violent episodes that occurred during the French Revolution. The March to Versailles was staged in an effort to obtain bread and force the high prices of bread down. Versailles was known as a royal paradise, reserved for the royal families and their entourages. Versailles was a symbol of the excessive luxuries available only to the king and his family. -
Execution Of Louis Xvl and Main Antoinettle
On January 20th, 1793, the National Convention condemned Louis XVI to death. The next day he met his fate. His journey began in a carriage along with an English priest named Henry Edgeworth, who wrote down everything that happened that day. -
Start Of Reign Of Terror
The Reign of Terror was the short but bloody period during the French Revolution (1789–99), a movement that resulted in the overthrow of the monarchy, a government ruled by a king or queen. The Reign of Terror began in 1793 and ended in July 1794.
