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Bankers refuse to lend King Louis any more money
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The Estates-General has a meeting, in which representatives of all three estates decide on how to make more money.
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The national assembly is created, leading to the Tennis Court Oath.
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There were rumors that forgeign troops were coming to attack so mobs stormed the Bastille to look for weapons.
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The national assembly chooses to abolish the estates, making everybody except the king equal and ending the Old Regime.
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The national assembly claims the "Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen" as their official beliefs
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Parsian women riot over the increasing price of bread and raid the Versallies, and eventually force the king to return to Paris.
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The National Assembly slowly reforms France, incorporating enlightenment ideas into their new laws and policies.
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The royal family tries to escape to the Austrian Netherlands but were caught and send back to France.
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The National Assembly changed France to a limited monarchy.
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The National Assembly declares war against Austria and Prussia, who support an absolute monarchy.
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Around 20,000 men break into the king's palace and take him hostage.
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Citizens, fearful that the nobles planned to escape and bring back the king, broke into french prisons and murdered many imprisoned nobles. The Jacobins take control of the government.
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The National Assembly and King are removed from the government, and the National Convention takes their place.
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The king gets the guillotine punishment.
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Great Britan, Holland and Spain join the war against France, causing them to draft 30,000 men into their army.
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Robespierre became the leader of the Committee of Public Safety.
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The members of the National Convention imprison Robespierre and guillotine him on the 28th of July.
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A new plan of government is drafted, and the system of the "Directory" is formed.
