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Louis XVI takes the throne at age 19. Dominated by his wife, Marie Antoinette. He was a weak leader.
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People of Paris stormed the Bastille, a much hated prisonthat symbolized autocratic rule. This started the revolution.
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The national assembly adopted the declaration of the rights of man and of the citizens. Guaranteed the rights of "liberty, property, sercurity, and resistance to oppression" to all people.
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The great fear, peasants were fearful that the nobles were hiring outlaws to terrorize them. Peasants rioted. Stormed Versailles and demanded that Louis and Marie come to Paris.
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Louis XVI's government is about to go bankrupt. Poor havrvests. The National Assembly is formed.
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National Assembly dispanded so the new Legislative Assembly can take over. Creates a constitutional monarchy; strips power from the king and gave the Assembly the power to create French law.
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Revolutionary leaders turn on each other. Three factions in the Legislative Assembly form. Radicals, Moderates, and Conservatives.
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Austria and Prussia, who supported Louis XVI, sent troops to Paris.
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20,000 Parisians invade the royal palace. Louis, Marie, and their children imprisoned.
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The national convention abolishes the monarchy and declares France a Replubic.
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Louis XVI is no longer king. The radical Jacobins tried Louis XVI for treason and found him guilty.
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Louis XVI was executed by the guillotine.
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Great Britain, Holland, and Spain join Prussia, Austria, and France to fight. The national assembly drafts 300,00 French citizens into the army.
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Revolution leader Maximilien Robespierre sets out to gather power into his own hands. He becomes the leader or the committee of public saftey.
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Marie was executed. Revolutionary courts declare death sentences on those that challenge Robespierre.
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The national committee claims that Robespierre is a tyrant.
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Robespierre governed France nearly as a dictater, this period became known as the Reign of Terror. Approximately 3,000 were executed in Paris and as many as 40,000 were killed all together. Robespierre was executed on the 28 of July.
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Moderate leaders in the National Convention draft a new Constitution. It creates two legislature and an executive body of five men, known as the directory.
