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Louis XVI called a meeting with the three estates. He called in the first two estates: Clergy and Nobility - who were privileged minorities - and then the third estate who were the majority of the people in the French Society
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The deputies of the Third Estate found themselves locked out of their usual meeting hall, therefore they moved to an indoor tennis court and took an oath. The oath was that they would never separate until a written constitution had been written for Francis.
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Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress and prison. This action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution.
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A law passed by France's National Constituent Assembly stating that all men are equal under law.
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A mob of nearly 7,000 women armed with weapons such as pitchforks, pikes and muskets, marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles, demanding food for their families.
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A law passed during the French Revolution that caused immediate subordination of the Catholic Church in France to the French Government. It was crated in an attempt to reorganize the Roman Catholic Church in France on a national basis.
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King Louis XVI and his family attempt to flee from France but are caught at Verannes. They are sent back to Paris where the King is forced to go on trial.
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Thousands of people are sentenced to death by execution that is caused by conflict between two political parties the Jacobins, and the Girondins. The leader of the Jacobins, Maximilien arises as a new leader of the Revolution.
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After being put on trial the king is sentenced to death. He is executed by the guillotine on January 21, 1793.
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Maximilien Robespierre, leader of the Jacobins, is executed and the power of the Jacobins fall with him. The Girondins gain more power as a result.
