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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 storming and fall of the Bastille.
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The National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
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The flight to Varennes was the royal family’s failed attempt to escape Paris in June 1791.
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King Louis XVI accepts the new constitution
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the National Guard and a mob of Parisians invaded the residence of the royal family
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Louis ascended to the French throne in 1774 and from the start was unsuited to deal with the severe financial problems that he had inherited from his grandfather, King Louis XV
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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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The Hebertists are judged to be extremists and anarchists by Robespierre and the Jacobins. They are accused of conspiracy and collusion with foreign powers.
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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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Napoléon was in Paris when a large, angry Parisian mob of royalists tried to attack the ruling National Convention at the Tuileries Palace
