Execution louis xvi 1793

French Revolution Timeline

  • Jaques Necker

    Jaques Necker

    Jaques was a finance minister for Louis XVI.
  • Jean-Paul Marot

    Jean-Paul Marot

    He was a French political theorist and physician .He was also a defender of the sans-culottes.
  • Olympe de Gouges

    Olympe de Gouges

    She was a French playwright who wrote on women's rights and absolutism.
  • Marie Antionette

    Marie Antionette

    Marie was married to Louis XVI. She was the last queen of France before the revolution.
  • Maximilien Robespierre

    Maximilien Robespierre

    He was a French lawyer and statesman. He was the best known and most influential people of the Revolution.
  • Charlotte Corday

    Charlotte Corday

    She assassinated Jean-Paul Marot.
  • Jacobins

    Jacobins

    They were a radical group formed because of the revolution.
  • Tennis Court Oath

    Tennis Court Oath

    Oath to "not separate and to reassemble wherever necessary".
  • Great Fear

    Great Fear

    Period of panic because of an aristocratic conspiracy.
  • Flight to Varennes

    Flight to Varennes

    The king unsuccessfully attempted to escape Paris wanted a counter-revolution.
  • Louis XVI

    Louis XVI

    Louis was the last king of France before it went downhill. He married Marie Antionette and died on
  • Reign of Terror

    Reign of Terror

    A period of serious massacres and public executions during this time.
  • Geroges Danton

    Geroges Danton

    He was the first president of the Committee of Public Safety.
  • Sans-Coluettes

    Sans-Coluettes

    A lower class republican during the French Revolution.
  • Napolean Bonaparte

    Napolean Bonaparte

    He was a French military leader and led many successful campaigns. After, he was the Emperor of the French.