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Meeting of the Estates General to approve new taxes in Versailles, with each of the Estates getting 300 representatives. The meeting of the Estates general eventually leads to the formation of the National Assembly, making this an important event in the French Revolution
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After being locked out of their meeting place, the National Assembly meets next door on the tennis court. They take an oath not to dismiss until a new constitution has been written, called the Tennis Court Oath
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In search of gunpowder, a Parisian mob stormed the Bastille, a French prison and a sybol of oppression
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Passed by the National Assembly. It is a new constitution for France, based off of the concept of Sovereign Nation and General Will by Rousseau
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Passed by the National Assembly. Its purposes were to raise money and end special privileges of the clergy. It creates a new church structure. Now the government pays salaries, all church land is seized, and monastaries are abolished.
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Letters are found in the Tuilleries.The King is Charged with Treason
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Louis XVI is executed by guillotine
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Rule of Maximilion Robespierre. He was an extreme leader of the Jacobins. He believed that "people must be forced to be free". Under his rule, between 17,000 and 40,000 are killed
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On the 9th of Thermidor of the revolutionary calendar, enemies of Robespierre unite and arrest him, and he is guillotined
