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A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan
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The storming and fall of the Bastille.
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The National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man
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the royal family’s failed attempt to escape Paris
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French constitution created by the National Assembly during the French Revolution. It retained the monarchy, but sovereignty effectively resided in the Legislative Assembly,
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Paris mob storms royal palace; Commune siezes Assembly; Legislative Assembly falls. Minister of Justice Danton purges thousands of presumed traitors.
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a day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris.
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This law authorized the creation of revolutionary tribunals to try those suspected of treason against the Republic and to punish those convicted with death.
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Fearing that Marie Antoinette and her son, the nominal King, would provide rallying points for royalists within France and abroad, a Revolutionary Tribunal indicted Marie Antoinette and her children for treason. Two attorneys were assigned to prepare her defense, and one describes the situation here.
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was arguably the first official articulation of American foreign policy. It sparked a debate about American involvement in foreign affairs that is still going on today.
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Robespierre and his allies were placed under arrest by the National Assembly
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13 Vendémiaire Year 4 is the name given to a battle between the French Revolutionary troops and Royalist forces in the streets of Paris
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was a single-chamber assembly in France from 20 September 1792 to 26 October 1795
