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Imprisonment of Voltaire
Critics embraced his epic poem, La Henriade, but its satirical attack on politics and religion infuriated the government, and Voltaire was arrested in 1717. He spent nearly a year in the Bastille. -
The American Revolution
A colonial revolt which occurred between 1765 and 1783. -
Louis XVI is crowned
Became Louis XVI upon his grandfathers death -
Formation of the National Assembly
a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General; thereafter it was known as the National Constituent Assembly, though popularly the shorter form persisted. -
Tennis Court Oath
incomplete painting by Jacques-Louis David, painted between 1790 and 1794 and showing the titular Tennis Court Oath at Versailles, one of the foundational events of the French Revolution. -
Storming of the Bastille
occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. -
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. -
The first Constitution of France
the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime. -
The murder of Marat
a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David of the murdered French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat. -
The massacre in Lyon
was the centre of a revolt against the French government during the War of the First Coalition.