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A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan
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The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris.
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The Declaration of the rights of Man and of the Citizen passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights.
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The Flight to Varennes served as a major journee because it showed the National Assembly as well as the French people, that Louis XVI could no longer be trusted. While the Assembly had every intention of creating a limited or constitutional monarchy, after June 1791, such an idea became increasingly suspect
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King Louis XVI accepts the new constitution
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On August 10th 1792, a little more than three years after their attack on the Bastille, the people of Paris laid siege to another royalist symbol. This time the target was the Tuileries palace, the official residence of Louis XVI and the home of the Legislative Assembly - See more at: http://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/attack-on-the-tuileries/#sthash.Eyb87Gtb.dpuf
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After voting unanimously to find the King guilty, the deputies held a separate vote on his punishment. By a single vote, Louis was sentenced to death, "within twenty–four hours." Thus, on 21 January 1793, Louis Capet, formerly King of France was beheaded by the guillotine
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This law, passed on 17 September 1793, authorized the creation of revolutionary tribunals to try those suspected of treason against the Republic and to punish those convicted with death
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Seven months after the execution of the King, shortly after the declaration of "Revolutionary Government," the Convention turned to the rest of the royal family. Fearing that Marie Antoinette and her son, the nominal King, would provide rallying points for royalists within France and abroad, a Revolutionary Tribunal indicted Marie Antoinette and her children for treason. Two attorneys were assigned to prepare her defense, and one describes the situation here.
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Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention
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13 Vendémiaire Year 4 is the name given to a battle between the French Revolutionary troops and Royalist forces in the streets of Paris. The battle was largely responsible for the rapid advancement of Republican General Napoleon Bonaparte's career
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Convention was elected to provide a new constitution for the country after the overthrow of the monarchy
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Hébert and leaders of the Cordeliers guillotined.
