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The Estates General meets
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3rd Estate declared themselves the “National Assembly”
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The Tennis Court Oath
On June 20, 1789, the members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath -
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Storming of the Bastille
July 14, 1789, the storming of this medieval fortress and prison known as the Bastille became the symbolic start of the French Revolution. The warden was killed by the mob and his head paraded around on a pike. -
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National Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
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Women’s March to the Palace of Versailles
October 5, 1789 the Women's March on Versailles. On this day in 1789, an angry mob of nearly 7,000 working women – armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets – marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles in what was to be a pivotal event in the intensifying French Revolution -
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Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette attempt to flee France
The royal Flight to Varennes during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, his queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution -
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Creation of Legislative Assembly
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Creation of National Convention
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Marie Antoinette Executed
Marie Antoinette was convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of high treason and executed by guillotine on the Place de la Révolution on 16 October 1793. -
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Committee of Public Safety
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Louis XVI is executed
He was convicted for conspiracy with foreign powers. He was executed by guillotine. Louis ascended to the French Throne. -
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Reign of Terror
They had the job of executing people who were accused of being "anti-revolutionary." They executed people using the guillotine. Maximilien Robespierre was the leader. -
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Maximilien Robespierre is executed
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France is ruled by the Directory