French Rev.

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  • Maximellien leader of Committee of Public Safety

    Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre ((6 May 1758 – 28 July 1794) is one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. He largely dominated the Committee of Public Safety and was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended with his arrest and execution in 1794.

  • Meeting of the States-General

    The Estates-General (or States-General) of 1789 (French: Les États-Généraux de 1789) was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm, the nobles, the Church and the common people. (1789)

  • Tennis Court Oath

    The Tennis Court Oath (French: serment du jeu de paume) was a pivotal event during the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 out of the 577 members from the Third Estate and a few members of the First Estate during a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789 in a tennis court building near the Palace of Versailles.

  • Storming of the Bastille

    The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris on 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. While the prison only contained seven prisoners at the time of its storming.

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

    The last article of Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was adopted 26 or 27 August, 1789[1] by the National Constituent Assembly (Assemblée nationale constituante), during the period of the French Revolution, as the first step toward writing a constitution for France.

  • Execution of Louis XVI

    The execution of Louis XVI by guillotine occurred on 21 January 1793 at Revolution Square (formerly Place Louis XV, and renamed Place de la Concorde in 1795)

  • Committee of Public Safety

    The Committee of Public Safety (French: Comité de salut public), created in April 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured July 1793, formed the de facto executive government of France during the Reign of Terror (1793-4), a stage of the French Revolution.

  • Execution of Marie Antoinette

    Marie Antoinette was convicted of treason and sentenced to be guillotined. On October 16, 1793 she was taken through the streets of Paris in an open cart. She maintained her dignity until the bitter end

  • Bread riots in Paris

    Deadliest riots in world history, with an estimated 30000 killed in the Hippodrome. ... 1229 - University of Paris strike of 1229, (Paris, France). ..... South Africa); 1977 - 1977 Egyptian Bread Riots, January, 1977,

  • Louis XVI is arrested and taken into custody

    A failed escape attempt by Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette ended up sending them ... Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were placed under house arrest at Tulieres Palace in Paris. ... they were recognized immediately and taken into custody.

  • Fall of Maximilien Robespierre

    Robespierre appeared at the Convention on 26 July (8th Thermidor, year II, according to the Revolutionary calendar), and delivered a two-hour-long speech. He defended himself against charges of dictatorship and tyranny, and then proceeded to warn of a conspiracy against the Republic