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The third estate declares that it is now the National Assembly
A revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General. -
The fall of Bastille
The increased mob activity in Paris had resulted in the formation of a permanent committee to keep order. This organized popular force broke into a royal armory and collected arms and then stormed the Bastille. -
October Days
Parisian women march to Versailles and demand that the royal family return to Paris -
The royal family attempts to flee France and is apprehended at Varennes.
The flight marked the end of any trust between the king and the revolutionaries, showing their supposed alliance to be fraudulent and unworkable, even as the Constitution of 1791 was being finalised. -
The legislative Assembly is formed
It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and of the National Convention. -
France declares war on Austria and Prussia
Legislative Assembly declared war on Austria. Although the French fared poorly at first, the armies became more successful as the war progressed -
Execution of Louis XVI
His execution made him the first victim of the Reign of Terror. His wife Marie Antoinette was guillotined on 16 October, the same year -
The Terror begins
was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution". -
Robespierre is elected president of the Convention
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Robespierre and his followers are arrested and guillotine
he sent his fellow citizens and friends Danton and Desmoulins to the guillotine. -
France adopts a new constiution
French Constitution was the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the Absolute Monarchy of the Ancien Régime -
Napoleon beats the Austrians in battle
was one of the most important military engagements of the Napoleonic Wars and ended in a decisive victory for Emperor Napoleon I's French and allied army against the Austrian army under the command of Archduke Charles of Austria-Teschen -
Treaty of London
England, Russia, and Italy sign a pact against France -
The end of the Revolution
The French revolution ended in 1799 when Napoleon staged a coup and seized power. The period between 1789 and 1799 was a tumultuous time for France with coups and revolutionary wars taking place firstly against the monarchy and secondly against the corrupt governments. -
Britain seeks peace with France
The Treaty of Alliance with France, was the defensive alliance between France and the America, formed in the midst of the American Revolutionary War, which promised military support in case of attack by British forces indefinitely into the future -
Peace of Amines between France and Britain
The Treaty of Amiens temporarily ended hostilities between the French Republic and the United Kingdom during the French Revolutionary Wars.