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The Creation of the National Assembaly
During the French Revolution, the National Assembly which existed from June 13, 1789 to July 9, 1789, was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate so as to have a fair assembly. -
The Tennis Court Oath
The deputies of the Third Estate, realizing that in any attempt at reform they would be outvoted by the two privileged orders, the clergy and the nobility, had formed, on June 17, a National Assembly. Finding themselves locked out of their usual meeting hall at Versailles on June 20 and thinking that the king was forcing them to disband, they moved to a nearby indoor tennis court. There they took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established. -
Storming of the Bastille
The storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris on July 14, 1789. The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison, was taken by angry peasants seeking gunpowder for the muskets they stole previous to this. The mayor of the prison tried to lock down the prison but wasn't able to do it fast enough and the peasants stormed in and killed the guards. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. -
Wemen march on Versailles
The price and shortage of bread was so high that mothers couldn't feed their children so they marched to Versailles and demanded that the king go to Paris. the crowd got into the palace and got to the queens quarters and got away via secret passage to the kings quarters then he told the crowd that they would go to Paris -
Flight to Varennes
The Flight to Varennes was a failed escape attempt by the royals to get out of France. After they were caught they were taken back to Paris as prisoners -
King Louis XVI Formally Signs the New Constitution
After the kings attempted escape he was forced to sign the constitution -
France Declared War on Austria.
France declared war on Austria because of the queen was from Austria the French government feared they would try to stop the revolution so instead of waiting for that to happen they decided to make the first move -
The September Massacure
The September Massacre occurred from September 2nd to September 3rd of 1792. The massacre was an event of the mass murder of 1,200 prisoners for fear that they were planning an uprising -
The Exicution of King Louis XVI
The execution of Louis XVI, by means of the guillotine, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution in Paris. It was a major event of the Revolution due to the fact that some people believed that republic couldn't work until the monarch was dead -
The Committee of Public Safety
The Committee of Public Safety was set up on April 6, 1793, during one of the crises of the Revolution, when France was beset by foreign and civil war. The new committee was to provide for the defense of the nation against its enemies, foreign and domestic, and to oversee the already existing organs of executive government. -
The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
Charlotte Corday killed Marat because she believed that that he was to blame for the violence that took over France. On July 13, she gained an audience with Marat by promising to betray the Caen Girondists. Marat, who had a persistent skin disease, was working as usual in his bath when Corday pulled a knife from her bodice and stabbed him in his chest. He died almost immediately, and Corday waited calmly for the police to come and arrest her. She was guillotined four days later. -
French Victory Over Austrians at Fleurus (Belgium)
The battle of Fleurus (26 June 1794) was the decisive battle in the two year long campaign in the Austrian Netherlands between the forces of revolutionary France and the powers of the First Coalition. The French plan for 1794 was to carry out offensives at both ends of the front line on the southern border of the Austrian Netherlands, with one army attacking in western Flanders and another towards Charleroi on the Sambre. -
The exicution of Maximillian Robespierre
Maximilien was the head hancho of the reign of terror and the head of the committee of public safety witch was behind all the executions of the 17,000 people that he claimed were enemies of the revolution -
The Reign of Terror
The Terror was designed to fight the enemies of the revolution, to prevent counter-revolution from gaining ground. Most of the people rounded up were not aristocrats, but ordinary people. A man (and his family) might go to the guillotine for saying something critical of the revolutionary government. If an informer happened to overhear, that was all the tribunal needed. -
The Creation of the Directory
Directory, French Directoire, the French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years, from November 1795 to November 1799. It included a bicameral legislature known as the Corps Législatif.J -
Napoleon Gains Control
orn on the island of Corsica, Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution (1789-1799). After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d'état, he crowned himself emperor in 1804. -
Napoleon's "Whiff of Grapeshot" Save the Directory from a Royalist mob
In the later phase of the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte – then a mere Brigadier General (who had, in fact, recently been struck off by the revolutionary Committee of Public Safety and was therefore technically an ex-Brigadier General) famously said that he had used ‘a whiff of grapeshot’ when he repulsed a Royalist mob who, in 1795, took to the streets of Paris in an attempt to bring down the new republican government.
