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Estates General
Louis XVI calls a national assembly called the Estates General. Enlightenment ideas were spreading. He then locked out the third estate. -
Bastille Day
The third estate storms the Bastille Prison in search of weapons. -
Revolutionary Debates
Arguements between the Jacobins and the monarchiques and girondists about monarchy vs. other forms of goverment -
King caught fleeing
King Louis XVI and his family were caught on the border trying to flee france. After this, they were put under house arrest -
Reign of Terror
King Louis XVI was guillotined and after him many others who opposed the revolution were sentenced for execution as well -
End of the Reign of Terror
Robespierre was executed by the guillotine. He was in charge of sentencing people to get executed by the guillotine
