French Revolution

  • Meeting of the Estates-General

    Not called into session since the 1600's
  • Grande Peur

  • Formation of the National Assembly

  • The Tennis Court Oath

  • The Fall of the Bastille

  • Abolition of Feudalism

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

  • Women march to Versailles and the king's return to Paris

  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy

  • The King's Flight to Varennes

  • Declaration of Pillnitz

    Austria and Prussia: King Harmed = Paris to the Ground