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The Revolution Begins
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The Siege of The Bastille
A horde of rioters attacked the Bastille for the gunpowder they wanted. After hours of fighting the governor of de Launay, surrendered to the radicals but as he exits the prison he is killed by the crowd. The crowd also executed de Flesselles the leader of the Paris Merchants. -
Women's March on Versailles
Jean Paul Marat's newspaper strongly requests a march on Versailles to protest the cocarde tricolor. Thousands of women take part in the march and after the journey they sieged the Palace of Versailles. The women require that the Royal family move with them to Paris and the king agrees. -
The Fete de la Federation
Louis XVI held the Fete de la Federation in Paris to attempt to unify the factions of Paris during the Revolution. The Pope wrote to Louis XVI to argue the Assembly's removal of the French Clergy's special position. Jean Paul Marat urges the death of five hundred aristocrats to save the revolution. -
The Royal Family Flees Paris
The royal family slither out of the Tuileries Palace and advance to Montmedy. Louis XVI was identified in Varennes and the Assembly took him back to Paris saying that he was kidnapped. After the king came back to Paris the Assembly delayed his duties until further notice. -
Storming of the Tuileries
The National Guard of the Paris Commune and federes attack the Tuileries Palace. The Royal family hid out in the Legislative Assembly while the Swiss guards defending the palace were slayed. The Assembly ceases the king's duties and orders the creation of a new government, the Convention. -
The Trail and Execution of Louis XVI
Louis XVI is brought before the Convention and Robespierre said that the king must die so that the nation could live. The Convention revokes the French votes from deciding their king's fate. The Convention declares that the king is guilty to conspiracy against public freedom by a vote of 707 to 0. -
The start of the Terror
The country starts to fall under the rule of the Convention as the cut ties with England and even declare war on England and the Dutch Republic. The Committee of Public Safety created by the Convention took control over the government. The group demands the arrest of Jean Paul Marat so he goes into hiding but is found later and acquitted of all charges. -
The Assassination of Jean Paul Marat
Charlotte Corday kills the radical newspaper writer, Jean Paul Marat, in his bathtub. At her trail she said that she killed one man to save thousands. At her trail she was sentenced to death and guillotined afterwards. -
The Law of 22 Prairial
The prisons were getting full, so the Convention sped up trails by making it so the witnesses don't have to testify. From June 11 to July 10 1,376 prisoners were sentenced to death with no acquittals, which is very different compared to before where it would take fourteen months to sentence 1,251 people to death. The Convention also allows itself to arrest its own members. -
The End of the Terror
Robespierre, the man who thought that Louis XVI needed to die to save the nation, gave a violent speech demanding the arrest and punishment of traitors in the Committees. The Convention sent Robespierre's speech to the Committee for further study then voted to arrest Robespierre and his younger brother. They are quickly freed by their supporters and hide out in the Hotel de Ville where there are taken back to the trail. All of the 106 Robespierrists were put to death by guillotine.
