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The formation of the National Assembly was cause of the Third Estate becoming frustrated with King Louis XVI. It existed for a short period of time before a larger group of authority formed.
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The Tennis Court Oath was a swear-in that they would not leave until a new constitution of France had been made.
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The commoners, with the help of French guards, overthrow the Bastille and release prisoners. They took ammunition and guns, and tore the Bastille brick by brick down.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man is the result from the Tennis Court Oath, the "new constitution of France".
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The common women became a mob and gathered weapons to march to Versailles. Their upset was over the climbing price of bread and the scarcity of food for the children of France.
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Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin suggests the use of the guillotine, a swift executing device that sets all people equal underneath the blade.
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The document subordinated the Catholic Church to the new order. It reduced their influence dramatically.
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King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette tried to flee France but were upheld in the small village of Varennes, a few miles out from the Austrian border.
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Several killings across the cities such as Paris of prisoners at the time who could be a threat to the radical movements.
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King Louis XVI is executed in front of thousands.
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The Committee helped protected against internal rebellion against the new order. Robespierre was a significant member and helped guide it in the Jacobin vision.
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Marat, a influential radical speaker and authority figure, is murdered in his medicinal bath by Girondin-sympathizer Charlotte Corday.
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Girondin-sympathizer, Charlotte Corday, is sentenced to death and swiftly executed days after the murder of radical Jean-Paul Marat.
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A period of violence throughout France where the majority of royalty and Girondins plus those who objected the Jacobin's way of rule were brutally executed by guillotine.
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Becoming extremely violent and extreme, the leader of the Committee of Public Affairs was executed after his failed attempt of suicide.
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The Directory was the government set up by revolutionaries that lasted for approximately four years before being overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Napoleon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Marie-Josephe-Rose Tascher.
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Napoleon gains complete control as First Consul of France in the French Consulate (government that replaced the Directory).
