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Oath of the Jeu de Paume.
After having constituted the National Assembly, and when the door of the room in which they will deliberate is closed by royal order, the representatives of the third estate meet in the covered pediment that was used to play ball and solemnly swear not to separate until they endowed France from a constitution. -
Storming of the Bastille.
The dismissal of Jacques Necker as Minister of Finance and the rumors about military preparations provoke the armed uprising of the Parisians, who seize rifles and cannons and surround the Bastille prison, a symbol of despotism. Its governor, De Launay, opens fire on the attackers, causing a hundred deaths, but is forced to capitulate and is assassinated on the spot. -
The king swears the Constitution.
The text maintains the Monarchy and grants the right of veto to a king with limited powers. The Constituent Assembly is dissolved and, after a census-based election to which the outgoing deputies cannot appear, the Legislative Assembly meets on October 1. -
Overthrow of the Monarchy.
The uprising coordinated by the Parisian sections with the help of the federated from Marseilles led to the seizure of arms and heavy bloodshed at the Tuileries Palace. The king and his family take refuge in the Legislative Assembly, and an Insurrectionary Commune takes control of the Paris City Council. The Assembly provisionally suspends the king and calls a National Convention. -
Massacres in prisons.
The alarming news about the advance of the allies towards Paris serve as a pretext for the organization of cutthroat pickets that, with the support of Marat from the Commune and with the tolerance of Danton from the Ministry of Justice, assault the prisons and murder cruelly to between one thousand and fourteen hundred prisoners, including people of such importance at court as the Princess of Lamballe, whose head is displayed on the tip of a pike in front of the window of the Temple tower -
Execution of Louis XVI.
After being tried and condemned by the Convention, and all the maneuvers of the moderates to save his life failed, the king was guillotined in the Plaza de la Revolución at ten o'clock and twenty-two minutes. The roll of drums prevents your voice from being heard. The executioner raises his head before a shocked crowd, who learned that same morning of the murder of the deputy Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau by a former bodyguard. -
Execution of Marie Antoinette.
The deposed queen is guillotined after a mock trial in the Revolutionary Court, during which she is accused of having incestuous relations with her son. -
Feast of the Supreme Being.
The Convention pays homage to the divinity in a ceremony in which Robespierre, as president of the Assembly, acts as pontiff for the scandal of the sectors in favor of atheism and de-Christianization. -
Coup d'etat of Thermidor.
In the Convention an alliance is forged between the Jacobin sector that feels threatened by Robespierre and the deputies of the Plain, usually mute. Robespierre's voice is silenced when he attempts to make a speech, and he and his top aides are arrested. After a failed attempt at resistance in the Town Hall - taken by assault by the troops loyal to the Commune - the Incorruptible is guillotined, along with his brother, Saint-Just, Couthon and other members of his environment. -
Napoleon takes power.
After a year in which the Thermidorians control the Convention, and four years of authoritarian rule through the Directory, the coup d'etat of 18 Brumaire takes place, in which General Napoleon Bonaparte, recently returned from Egypt, takes power as first consul. France already has the dictator repeatedly sued by Marat.