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Monarch
Representatives of the tiers état form a National Assembly swearing not to leave until a new constitution is established. -
Community of public safety.
National Assembly declares itself Constituent Assembly. -
Mobs
Armed citizens storm and capture the Bastille. -
Mobs
‘Great Fear’ begins as peasants revolt across France. -
Community of Public Safety
National Assembly decrees abolition of feudalism. -
Mobs
Removal of civil disabilities against Jews. -
Community of public safety
Abolition of Royal guilds and monopolies. -
Community of Public Safety
Black citizens of French colonies granted equal rights. -
Monarch
Louis XVI attempts to flee to Varennes but is recognised and forcibly returned to Paris -
Terror
National Guard fires on crowd protesting against restoration of the King. -
Monarch
King formally accepts Constitution. -
Community of Public Safety
Civil marriage and divorce instituted. Assembly orders all émigrés to return under pain of death. -
Terror
France declares war on Austria, but French army flees at sight of the enemy. -
Terror
Duke of Brunswick publishes call for allied attack on France. -
Terror
Jacobin masses storm the Tuileries Palace, massacring the Swiss Guard, and the King imprisoned. -
Monarch
Lafayette flees to Austria. -
Mobs
French forces defeat the invading force at Valmy. Henceforth the Revolution would enjoy victory in its military conflicts -
Monarch
The Convention elected by the Legislative Assembly commences, abolishes monarchy; day one of the Republican Calendar -
Mobs
Popular riots in Paris. -
Nepoleon
Napoleon assumes command of French army in Italy. Nepolian -
Nepoleon
In 1799, he staged a coup d'état and installed himself as First Consul; -
Nepoleon
Both France and Britain had become tired of war and signed the Treaty of Amiens in October 1801 and March 1802. -
Nepoleon
Napoleon consecrated as Emperor.
