-
The Creation of the National Assembly
During the French Revolution, the National Assembly, which existed from June 13, 1789 to July 9, 1789, was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate (the common people) of the Estates-General -
The Tennis Court Oath
On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath, vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established." It was a pivotal event in the early days of the French Revolution. -
Beginning of the French Revolution
Angry French Citizens scare away 300 Swiss ans 100 German soldiers with stones -
Mob takes down 300 Swiss and 100 German soldiers
The angry mob chase away the calvary by throwing stones at them under the protection of barriers. They do this after a cannon is fired killing 4 of their men. -
Mob takes down 300 Swiss and 100 German Soldiers
They commoners are shot by cannon killing 4 of their members, enraged they start throwing stones at the calvary. -
King Refuses Offers
The commoners give the King multiple offers on them not attacking, he refuses all of them -
King Refuses Offers
The King was given alternatives by the commoners than being attacked, but he refused them all -
Storming of The Bastille
The enraged people of France raid the unconquerable Bastille, successfully ripping it to pieces. They needed gunpowder for the weapons they carried. -
Storming the Bastille
A state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed. -
King Flees to Paris, Leaving the Queen
King Louis leaves to Paris without the Queen -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights -
The Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror or The Terror, is the label given by some historians to a period of violence during the French Revolution. -
Women March on Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as The October March, The October Days, or simply The March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution -
Flight to Varennes
The royal Flight to Varennes during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, his queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution at the head of loyal troops under royalist officers concentrated at Montmédy near the frontier. -
Period: to
Flight to Varennes
The royal Flight to Varennes during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, his queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution at the head of loyal troops under royalist officers concentrated at Montmédy near the frontier -
The September Massacres
The September Massacres were a wave of killings in Paris and other cities in late summer 1792, during the French Revolution. There was a fear that foreign and royalist armies would attack Paris and that the inmates of the city's prisons would be freed and join them. -
The Execution of King Louis XVI
The execution of Louis XVI, by means of the guillotine, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution in Paris. It was a major event of the Revolution. -
The Creation of the Committee of Public Safety
The Committee of Public Safety —created in April 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793—formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror (1793–94), a stage of the French Revolution. -
The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist who became best known for his role as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution. He was assassinated by Cordet. -
The Execution of Maximillian Robespierre
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre; 6 May 1758 – 28 July 1794) was a French lawyer and politician. He was one of the best-known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. -
The Creation of the Directory
Directory, French Directoire, the French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years, from November 1795 to November 1799. It included a bicameral legislature known as the Corps Législatif. -
The French Revolution Ends
With the Rise of Napoleon the French Revolution ends -
Napoleon Gains Control
Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution (1789-1799). After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d'état, he crowned himself emperor in 1804.
