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Formal opening of the estates general
When the Estates General of France finally met at Versailles on 5 May 1789 and disputes arose over the issue of voting, the members of the Third Estate were required to verify their own credentials, beginning on 28 May and ending on 17 June, when the members of the Third Estate declared themselves the sole members of the National Assembly. -
tennis court oath
Finding themselves locked out of their usual meeting hall at Versailles on June 20 and thinking that the king was forcing them to disband, they moved to a nearby indoor tennis court .There they took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France -
storming of the Bastille
storming of the Bastille, iconic conflict of the French Revolution. On July 14, 1789, fears that King Louis 16 was about to arrest France's newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille, an old fortress that had been used since 1659 as a state prison. -
The august decrees
The August Decrees were nineteen decrees issued between 4 and 11 August 1789 by the National Constituent Assembly during the French Revolution. They were eighteen decrees or articles adopted on the abolition of feudalism, other privileges of the nobility and seigneurial rights. -
The declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen
There were many proposals. The Constituent Assembly tasked five deputies – Démeunier, La Luzerne, Tronchet, Mirabeau et Redon – with examining the various draft declarations, combining them into a single one and presenting it to the Assembly. Article by article, the French declaration was voted on between 20 and 26 August 1789. -
The flight to Varennes
The royal Flight to Varennes during the night of 21 June 1791 was a significant event in the French Revolution in which King Louis 16 of France, Queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris to Montmédy -
The assembly declares war on austria
The French Revolutionary Wars began on 20 April 1792 when the French Legislative Assembly declared war on Austria. This launched the War of the First Coalition.That Francois I, king of Hungary and Bohemia, has, by his messages of March 18th and April 7th, refused to renounce this action; -
Storming of the tuileries place
The insurrection of 10 August 1792 was a defining event of the French Revolution, when armed revolutionaries in Paris, increasingly in conflict with the French monarchy, stormed the Tuileries Palace. The conflict led France to abolish the monarchy and establish a republic. -
Execution of louis 16
When a final decision on the question of a respite was taken on January 19, Louis was condemned to death by 380 votes to 310. He was guillotined in the Place de la Révolution in Paris on January 21, 1793. Nine months later his wife met the same fate -
Execution of robespierre
On July 27, 1794, Robespierre and a number of his followers were arrested at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris. The next day Robespierre and 21 of his followers were taken to the Place de la Révolution, where they were executed by guillotine before a cheering crowd.