The Stages Of The French Revolution....

Deterioration......

Period: May 10, 1774 to Oct 1, 1791

The National Assembly Takes Place...

Jun 17, 1789

Threatened by this development, King Louis XVI shut down the hall in which the Assembly convened, thus paving the way for tensions...

[Pre-French Revolution]Louis XVI's Power over France has faded......

Jul 14, 1789

The beginning of the end of Louis XVI's reign.....

The Storming Of The Bastille....

Jul 14, 1789

Commoners storm the fortress of the Bastille to free prisoners, remove cannon and retrieve gunpowder and other munitions. Although it was strategically of no military importance to the revolutionaries, it became a symbol of the hated Old Regime, and also a new symbol of the dawn of The French Revolution...

The Old Regime collapses...

Period: Jul 14, 1789 to Jan 21, 1793

The Angry mob's march to Versailles....

Oct 5, 1789

The crowd of women gathered in the streets of Paris to demand bread for their starving families. Then they preceeded to march to Versailles (12 miles..) to retrieve the King and force him to remain in Paris..

National Convention

Period: Sep 20, 1792 to Nov 2, 1795

Louis XVI is executed.

Jan 21, 1793

The National Convention had decided the King's fate, by all voting him guilty as a traitor, and by one vote to execute him...

The Reign of Terror....

Period: Sep 5, 1793 to Jul 28, 1794

People who opposed the revolution at this point would be promptly executed. This was under the direction of Maximilien Robespierre, until his abuse of power would lead to his own execution, thus ending this horrific period within the revolution....

Marie Antoinette is executed...

Oct 16, 1793

The Reign of Terror ends....

Jul 28, 1794

Robespierre is arrested and eventually guillotined...

The Directory... The Moderates restore power....

Period: Nov 2, 1795 to Nov 10, 1799