A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan.
The storming and fall of the Bastille.
The end of feudalism and serfdom in France is announced by the National Assembly
Louis XVI and his family are arrested while trying to flee from France.
King Louis XVI accepts the new constitution. He will sign it tomorrow.
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
The Queen’s Defense
The Kościuszko Uprising
Robespierre overthrown in France
Royalists attempt a coup and Napoleon Bonaparte makes his name suppressing the move with grapeshot. The popular party gains strength, Gracchus Babeuf is its spokesperson, holding running meetings at the Pantheon.
The Convention dissolves itself in favour of a dictatorship of the Directorate.