A Timeline of the French Revolution

  • bad harvest , costly wars

    May 5, 1789 ,after bad haversts and costly wars, King Louis XVI is forced to convene the Estates General assembly (meeting of represnetives of the Three Estates) in order to raise taxes.
  • issues

    August 27 1789 Assembly issues Declayration of the Rights of Man.
  • tennis courts

    June 29, 1789 Tennis court oath. nat. ass. resolves not to disband until it has written a constitution.
  • Bastille

    July 14, 1789: Bastille stormed and taken by a Paris mob
  • assembly

    August 4, 1789 Nobles in National Assembly renounce feudal rights Jacobin Club formed.
  • King Louis

    October 5-6 1789 King Louis brought from Versailles to Tuileries palace in Paris.
  • flees

    june 20-21 1791, king flees to Austria and is caught at varennes
  • mob

    august 10 1792 , paris mob storms royal palace legasltive assembly government collaspe minister of justice daton purgoes thousands of presumed tratiors
  • convention

    septerber 21 1792 national convnetion condermns and excutes king
  • revolt

    febuary 1793 counter revolutuonary revolt in the Vendee region begins
  • regin of terror

    march 1793 '' reign of terror '' by Committiee of Public Safety begins.
  • price controls

    fall 1793 price controls put into place by the governmant
  • opening

    febuary 21 1795 chruch reopned
  • new constution

    august 22 1795 new constutuin is adopted forming a new government called the directory
  • government takeover

    september 4 1797 givernment takeb over removes royalists from directory