the french revolution

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    te french revolution

  • estates meeting

    A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan.
  • the storming of bastille

    The storming and fall of the Bastille.
  • rights of man

    The National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man
  • fight to vareness

    Louis XVI and his family are arrested while trying to flee from France.
  • The Constitution of 1791

    the constitution of 1791 is establised
  • parisians invade the royal family

    , the National Guard and a mob of Parisians invaded the residence of the royal family. the royal family were able to escape before the got there
  • the execution of king louis xvi

    One 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
  • law of suspects

    The Law of Suspects is passed, authorizing the creation of revolutionary tribunals to try those suspected of treason against the Republic and to punish those convicted with death
  • marie antoinette execution

    Nine months after the execution of her husband, the former King Louis XVI of France, Marie-Antoinette follows him to the guillotine
  • tadeusz kosciuszko

    Tadeusz Kościuszko makes his proclamation starting the Kościuszko Uprising against the Russian Empire and Kingdom of Prussia in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Prussian Partition.
  • maxamillion falls

    Maximilien Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, is overthrown and arrested by the National Convention
  • national convention attack

    On October 5, 1795, Napoléon was in Paris when a large, angry Parisian mob of royalists tried to attack the ruling National Convention at the Tuileries Palace.
  • the end of the french revolution

    The National Convention was elected to provide a new constitution for the country after the overthrow of the monarchy