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National Assembly formed
revolutionary assembly is formed by the representatives of the Third Estate (the common people) of the Estates-General and petitioned the King of France for many rights. -
Tennis Court Oath
the national assembly found themselves locked out of their usual meeting hall at Versailles 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 for France. -
Storming of the Bastille
a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man created
passed by France's National Constituent Assembly, as a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. -
Legislative Assembly is formed
the governing body of France between October 1791 and September 1792. It replaced the National Convention Assembly. It was formed under the Constitution of 1791, which created a constitutional monarchy with Louis XVI as the head of state. -
War among other European countries begin
France declares war on Austria and Prussia. -
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National Convention formed
a single-chamber assembly in France (4 Brumaire IV under the Convention's adopted calendar) during the French Revolution. Among its early acts were the formal abolition of the monarchy (September 21) and the establishment of the republic (September 22). -
Louis XVI beheaded
was executed for treason by guillotine. -
Committee of Public Safety formed
created by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793, formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror. -
Reign of Terror begins
a period of remorseless repression or bloodshed, in particular Reign of Terror, the period of the Terror during the French Revolution. -
Marie Antoinette beheaded
After a two-day trial begun on October 14th, 1793, Marie Antoinette was convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of high treason, and executed by guillotine. -
The Directory formed
the French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years, from November 1795 to November 1799, when it replaced the Committee of Public Safety, until it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire (8–9 November 1799) and replaced by the Consulate. -
Napoleon became emperor of France
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.