The French Revolution

By ccosgrove

  • Estates-General convenes

    Estates-General convenes
    They convened on may 5 1789 because France needed financial help.

  • Third estate declares itself the national assembly

    Third estate declares itself the national assembly
    The first and second assembly would not allow the third to be part of theirs.

  • Storming of the Bastille

    Storming of the Bastille
    French Revolutionaries needed gunpowder and they knew where to find it.

  • Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen issued

    Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen issued
    National Assembly issued this.

  • Louis XVI executed

    Louis XVI executed
    Citizen Louis Capet executed formely know as Louis XVI

  • Maximilien Robespierre asuumes leadership of the Commitee of Public Safety

    Maximilien Robespierre asuumes leadership of the Commitee of Public Safety
    Commitee of Public Safety established.

  • Robespierre is executed.

    Robespierre is executed.
    Robespierre is arrsted and executed without trial.

  • Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power

    Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power
    Napoleon seizes power and the national commitee is dissolved,

  • Napoleon is defeated by the British at the Battle of Waterloo

    Napoleon is defeated by the British at the Battle of Waterloo
    Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo and that marks the end of his rule of the French.