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Necker is dismissed. 50,000 citizens arm themselves with pikes and form National Guard
The crowd clashed with the Royal German Cavalry Regiment between the Place Vendôme and the Tuileries Palace. The Royal commander, Baron de Besenval, fearing the results of a blood bath amongst the poorly armed crowds or defections amongst his own men, withdrew the cavalry towards Sèvres -
Armed citizens storm and capture the Bastille.
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France on the morning of 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 inmates at the time of its storming, its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution -
Women lead delegation to King in Versaille demanding bread. After scuffles, they are fobbed off by the King.
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Trial for the king begins
Louis was officially arrested on 13 August 1792, and sent to the Temple, an ancient fortress in Paris that was used as a prison. On 21 September, the National Assembly declared France to be a Republic and abolished the Monarchy. Louis was stripped of all of his titles and honors -
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Louis XVI executed
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Frances declare war on Britain and Holland
The French Revolutionary Wars are usually divided between those of the First Coalition (1792–1797) and the Second Coalition (1798–1801). France was at war with Great Britain continuously from 1793 to 1802. -
Metric System of measure adopted
that was originally based on the mètre des archives and the kilogramme des archives introduced by France in 1799 -
Marie Antionette executed
two and a half weeks before her thirty-eighth birthday, she was beheaded at the Place de la Révolution -
Republican calender decreed
was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days by the Paris Commune in 1871 -
Napoleon consecrated as Emperor
David was commissioned by Napoleon to paint a large composition commemorating his consecration, which had taken place in Notre Dame in Paris, on 2 December 1804. The picture was exhibited in the Salon Carré in the Louvre in 1808, then in the Salon of that year, it was next placed in the Tuileries, in the Salle des Gardes
