French Revolution timeline

  • Marie and Louis XVI married

  • Louis XVI becomes king

  • Estates General

  • National assembly declared

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    National Assembly

  • Tennis-Court Oath

  • Bread riots

  • Storming of the Bastille

  • Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen

  • March on Versailles

  • Church property nationalized

  • Louis XVI attempts to flee Paris

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    Legislative Assembly

  • National Guard created

  • France declares war on Austria

  • First Use of the Guillotine

  • Brunswick Manifesto issued

  • Sans-culottes invades Tuilleries

  • September Massacre

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    National Convention

  • France declared a Republic

  • Execution of Louis XVI

  • Creation of the Committee on Public safety

  • Period: to

    Reign of Terror

  • Assassination of Marat

  • Execution of Robespierre

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    The Directory

  • Napoleon comes to power