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The revolution had just begin.
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Members of the Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath demanding certain rights from the king.
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The French Revolution begins with the Storming of the Bastille.
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Commoners declares the National Assembly.
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The National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of man and of the Citizen.
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A large group of women (and men) march from Paris to Versailles to demand lower bread prices. They force the king and queen to move back to Paris.
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The Jacobin Club is formed. Its members become some of the most radical leaders of the French Revolution.
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The "Flight to Varennes" occurs when the royal family, including King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, attempt to flee France. They are captured and returned to France.
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King Louis XVI formally signs the new constitution.
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The guillotine becomes the official method of execution.
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Revolutionaries wanted war because they thought war would unify the country, and had a genuine desire to spread the ideas of the Revolution to all of Europe.
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New reforms and new ideas were created.
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The September Massacres were a wave of killings in Paris and other cities from 2–7 September 1792, during the French Revolution. There was a fear that foreign and royalist armies would attack Paris and that the inmates of the city's prisons would be freed and join them.
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The National Convention was the first government of the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly.
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First Republic lasted until the declaration of the First Empire in 1804 under Napoleon, although the form of the government changed several times,
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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.
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Civil war breaks out in the Vendee area of France between revolutionaries and royalists.
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The Law of Suspects is decreed. Anyone suspected of opposing the revolutionary government is arrested. Thousands of people will be executed over the next year.
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Nine months after the execution of her husband, the former King Louis XVI of France, Marie-Antoinette follows him to the guillotine, the French monarchy was abolished, and Louis and Marie-Antoinette were condemned for treason.
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Famous chemist Antoine Lavoisier, the "father of modern chemistry", is executed for being a traitor
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The Terror ended ten days later, when several important leaders of the Reign of Terror were executed, including Saint-Just and Robespierre.
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As part of his attempts to use extreme measures to control political activity in France, Robespierre later moved against the more moderate Danton, who was accused of corruption and executed by guillotine
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The church was open for worship again
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The White Terror was a period during the French Revolution in 1795, when a wave of violent attacks swept across much of France. The victims of this violence were people identified as being associated with the Reign of Terror followers of Robespierre and Marat, and members of local Jacobin clubs.
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A new national anthem of France adopted.
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Constitution of Year III approved, establishing Directory.
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Royalists attempt a coup and Napoleon Bonaparte makes his name suppressing the move with grapeshot. The popular party gains strength, Gracchus Babeuf is its spokesperson, holding running meetings at the Pantheon.
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The Convention dissolves itself in favour of a dictatorship of the Directorate.
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a five-member committee which governed France from 2 November 1795, when it replaced the Committee of Public Safety, until 9 November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire, and replaced by the French Consulate.
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Third constitution was created.
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Napoleon assumes command of French army in Italy.
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Directorate bans popular meetings at the Panetheon.
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Elections produce a Royalist majority. Elections in 1798 and 1799 produce a more radical result and are annulled by the Directorate.
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The era of napoleon.
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Napoleon overthrows the Directory and establishes the French Consulate with Napoleon as leader of France. This brings an end to the French Revolution.
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A concordat is a convention between the Holy See and a sovereign state that defines the relationship between the Catholic Church and the state in matters that concern both, the recognition and privileges of the Catholic Church in a particular country and with secular matters that impact on church interests.
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Napoleon founded the order of the “Légion d’honneur”. After the disruption of the Revolution, this decoration intended to bring together French citizens based on values and talents such as courage, civic ingenuity, and art. It was not a military award; civilians, industrialists, scientists and artists, and men and women alike, could all receive the honour.
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