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The storming of the Bastille starts the French Revolution.
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People voted to form the National Assembly to declare the end of absolue monarchy and the commencing of representative goverment.
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Price of Bread doubles, and many people starve. many crop faliares accure
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The royal family attempts to flee from France to the Austrian Netherlands. As they came close to the boarder they were captured and returned to paris.
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20,000 men and women invaded tuileries where the royal family was settled. The crowd killed royal gaurds, imprisoned Louis, Marie and their childeren.
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King Louis XVI (16th) is executed by guillotine
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Maximilien Robespierre becomes head of the Committee of Public Saftey. For the year that followed Robespierre controled france practically as a dictator.
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Louis and Marie both faced decapatation(seperation of head from the body).Both were done by the guillotine(a machine/insterment used for decapitation).