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A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan.
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The storming and fall of the Bastille.
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The end of feudalism and serfdom in France is announced by the National Assembly
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Louis XVI and his family are arrested while trying to flee from France.
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King Louis XVI accepts the new constitution. He will sign it tomorrow.
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fall of the French monarchy after storming the Tuileries Palace by the National Guard of the Insurrectional Paris Commune and revolutionary fédérés from Marseilles and Brittany
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King Louis XVI executed
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The Queen’s Defense
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The Kościuszko Uprising
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Robespierre overthrown in France
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Royalists attempt a coup and Napoleon Bonaparte makes his name suppressing the move with grapeshot. The popular party gains strength, Gracchus Babeuf is its spokesperson, holding running meetings at the Pantheon.
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The Convention dissolves itself in favour of a dictatorship of the Directorate.