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metting of the estates
A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan. -
storming of the Beastiles
Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. -
Decleration of the Rights of man and of the crittizen
is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. -
The Fight of Varnesses
was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, his queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution -
the king excepts the new constituion
King Louis XVI. King Louis XVI defeatedly signed the new constitution, fearing civil war more than the prospect of a constitutional monarchy. -
attack of terulis
August 10, 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. -
King Louis xvi executed
One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris -
The law of suspects
was a decree passed by the Committee of Public Safety on 17 September 1793, during the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution. -
Marie Antoniete is beheaded
In 1792, the French monarchy was abolished, and Louis and Marie-Antoinette were condemned for treason. -
The terror peaks
France's military was winning victories again. Conscription was changing warfare. With the first citizen's army in 2000 years and a massive army of conscripts, France's army was showing its superiority over smaller professional armies. France's generals were using mass attacks at bayonet point to overwhelm their enemy. -
Robispierre overthrown
Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. As the leading member of the Committee of Public Safety from 1793, Robespierre encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than 17,000 enemies of the Revolution. The day after his arrest, Robespierre and 21 of his followers were guillotined before a cheering mob in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. -
13 Vendémiaire
13 Vendémiaire Year 4 is the name given to a battle between the French Revolutionary troops and Royalist forces in the streets of Paris. -
national convention
October 26, 1795. Last day of the National Convention.