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Louis XVI summons
Louis XVI summons estates-general for its first meeting since 1614 -
Troops storm
Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortless that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs -
Declaration of the Rights of man and of the citizens
The Representatives of the French people, organized in National Assembly, considering that ignorance,forgetfulness or contemp of the rights of man are the sole causes of public miseries and the corruption of governments, have resolved to set forth -
Varennes flight
The flight to Varennes was the royal familys failed attempt to escape Paris in June 1791 -
New Constituion
King Louis XVI of France accepts the French Constitution of 1791 named new constitution -
Tuileries palace
a little more than three years 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 -
King Louis XVI Execution
General Interest 1793
King Louis XVI executed -
Law of Suspect
The law of Suspects is passed, authorizing the creation of revolutionary tribunals to try those suspected of treason against the Republic and to punish those convicted with death -
Marie-Antoinette beheaded
Nine months after the execution of her husband, the former King Louis XVI of France, Marie-Antoinette follows him to the guillotine -
Robespierre
Robespierre, the Committee of Public Safety dand Jacobin Club denounce the Hebertists and Dantonist on framed-up charges and execute all the popular leaders, Robespierre becomes virtually the dictator -
Robespierre overthrown
Maximilien Robespierre the architect of the French Revolutions Reign of terror is overthrown and arrested by the national convention -
Napoleon
When a large, angry Parisian mob of royalists tried to attack the ruiling National Convention at the Tuileries palace, Vicomte Paul de Barras, who had been at Toulon and was impressed by Napoleon's military -
The convention
The Convention dissolves itself in favour of a dictatorship of the Directorate
