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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 flight to Varennes was the royal family’s failed attempt to escape Paris in June 1791. Appalled by the growing radicalism of the revolution, particularly its anti-clericalism, Louis XVI agreed to abscond from the city. - See more at: http://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/flight-to-varennes/#sthash.PAueQ8wD.dpuf
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King Louis XVI accepts the new constitution. He will sign it tomorrow.
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On the morning of August 10, 1792, the National Guard and a mob of Parisians invaded the residence of the royal family (Tuileries in Paris). Although the royal family had already fled the palace for the relative safety of the Assembly's meeting place, the Swiss guards that were stationed at the palace opened fire on the crowd. They were quickly overpowered, and most of the Swiss soldiers were hacked to death by bystanders-it was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far.
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Louis XVI is sentenced to the guillotine.
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Immediately after the publication of the present decree, all suspects within the territory of the Republic and still at large, shall be placed in custody.
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Seven months after the execution of the King, shortly after the declaration of "Revolutionary Government," the Convention turned to the rest of the royal family.
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Robespierre, the Committee of Public Safety and Jacobin Club denounce the Hébertists and Dantonists on framed-up charges and execute all the popular leaders. Robespierre becomes virtually the dictator.
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(9th Thermidor) Convention calls for arrest of Robespierre. Robespierre attempts insurrection which flops, is arrested and executed. After about 150 of his supporters are done away with, the Terror is over.
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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.
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The Convention dissolves itself in favour of a dictatorship of the Directorate.
