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Estates-General
The first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General. A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan. -
Fall of the Bastille
The storming and fall of the Bastille, destroyed by a Parisian mob,and is taken by historians to be the starting date of the French Revolution. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man. Fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. -
Flight to Varennes
A significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, his queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris. -
French Constitution of 1791
The Constitution of 1791 is adopted. French Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the Absolute Monarchy of the Ancien Régime. -
10 August (French Revolution)
The Insurrection of 10 August 1792 was one of the defining events in the history of the French Revolution. Result of the fall of the French monarchy after storming the Tuileries Palace by the National Guard of the Insurrectional Paris Commune and revolutionary fédérés from Marseilles and Brittany. -
King Louis XVI executed
Louis XVI is sentenced to the guillotine. 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. -
Law of Suspects.
The Law of Suspects was a decree passed by the Committee of Public Safety on 17 September 1793, during the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution. It marked a significant weakening of individual freedoms that led to "revolutionary paranoia" that swept the nation. -
Marie-Antoinette is beheaded
Nine months after the execution of her husband, the former King Louis XVI of France, Marie-Antoinette follows him to the guillotine. -
Execution of popular leaders.
Robespierre, the Committee of Public Safety and Jacobin Club denounce the Hébertists and Dantonists on framed-up charges and execute all the popular leaders. Robespierre becomes virtually the dictator. -
Robespierre overthrown in France
Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention -
13 Vendémiaire
13 Vendémiaire, s the name given to a battle between the French Revolutionary troops and Royalist forces in the streets of Paris. The battle was largely responsible for the rapid advancement of Republican General Napoleon Bonaparte's career. -
National Convention
The Legislative Assembly decreed the provisional suspension of King Louis XVI and the convocation of a National Convention which was to draw up a constitution.
