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Tennis Court Oath
This was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution. The oath was a pledge signed by tp576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estate Gemeral. -
Storming the Bastillic
The Bastille was originally constructed in 1370 as a Bastille to protect the walled city of Paris from English attack. This was the first used as a state prison in the 17th century. -
Declaration of the Rights of man
The representative of French people, constituted as National Assembly and considering that ignorance, neglect or contempt of the rights of man are the also cause of public misfortune and government corruption. -
Women's March on Versailles
A croup of women demanding bread for their families gathered other discontented Parisians, including some men, and marched toward Versailles, arriving soaking wet from rain. -
Louis XVI guilotined
The execution of Louis XVI, by means the guillotined at the place revolution square. This was the major event of the French Revolution. -
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Reign of Terror
This was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, included by conflict between two rival political faction, the crirondins and the Mountain. -
Marie Antoinette guillotined
The attacked the Tuileries forced the royal family to take refuge at the assembly and the family was impriosend in the temple. The monarchy was abolished. After a two days Marie Antoinette was convicted by the Revolutionary tribunal of high treason and executed by guillotined. -
Constitution of 1791
Constitution of 1791, French constitution created by the National Assembly during the French Revolution. It retained the monarchy, but sovereignty effectively resided in the Legislative Assembly.
