Estates-General meets for the first time since 1614
Tennis Court Oath
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People stormed Bastille because threat from Louis XVI on National Assembly
Clergy and Noblity gave up Fuedal dues, Serfdom, the Tithe, Hunting and Fishing rights, and Personal Privaliges
Surrender of feudal rights: The August Decrees
Surrender of feudal rights
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Start of Reign of Terror
A group of women attacked Versilles
Palace of Versailles stormed
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Louis XVI accepts the Constitution formally
Royal family caught trying to flee to Austria
King Louis XVI and his family try to flee to Varennes
Louis XVI accepts the Constitution formally
France declares war against Austria
The king, hiding in Tuileries Palace, was forced by a mob to wear a red hat, symbolizing revolution.
September Massacres of prisoners in the Paris prisons
Proclamation of the First French Republic
Louis XVI executed
Marie Antoinette guillotined
National Convention, led by Robespierre, passes decree to establish the Cult of the Supreme Being
Directory takes on executive power
Robespierre arrested and killed. Reign of terror over.
People accepted the coup d'etat of Napoleon
Constitution of the Year VIII- leadership of Napoleon established under the Consulate. French revolution considered ended
Napoleon as First Consul for life
Civil Code (also known as Code Napoleon)
Napoleon crowns himself Emperor
Napoleon invades Russia
Napoleon arrives in Moscow to find the city abandoned and set alight by the inhabitants; retreating in the midst of a frigid winter, the army suffers great losses.
Napoleon is exiled to Elba
Restoration of Louis XVIII
Napoleon arrives in Paris. Beginning of the Hundred Days
