French Revolution

  • Louis XVI summons the Estates General

  • Estates General convenes

  • The “Tennis Court Oath”

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

  • National Assembly abolishes the nobility

  • Clergy instructed to swear allegiance to France

  • Louis & Marie Antoinette flee; captured at Varennes

  • France declares war on Austria

  • French Republic proclaimed

  • French Republic proclaimed

  • Marie Antoinette executed

  • Marie Antoinette executed