French Revolution

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    Insurrection at Grenoble

  • National Assembly declares itself Constituent Assembly

  • Armed citizens storm and capture the Bastille

  • Removal of civil disabilities against Jews

  • Abolition of nobility and titles

  • Black citizens of French colonies granted equal rights

  • Louis XVI attempts to flee

    Louis XVI attempts to flee to Varennes but is recognised and forcibly returned to Paris

  • National Guard fires on crowd protesting against restoration of the King

  • France declares war on Austria, but French army flees at sight of the enemy

  • Louis XVI executed

  • “Law of Suspects” initiates the Terror

  • Jacobin Club is suppressed by the Convention

  • The Churches re-open for Christian worship

  • Period: to

    White Terror instituted in the South

  • Napoleon consecrated as Emperor