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loous xvi
A meeting of the Estates-General is called by Louis XVI in Versailles to discuss and approve a new tax plan. -
bastille
The storming and fall of the Bastille -
Rights of the mans .
The National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man. -
family arrested
Louis XVI and his family are arrested while trying to flee from France -
absolute monarchy
French Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the Absolute Monarchy of the Ancien Régime. One of the basic precepts of the revolution was adopting constitutionality and establishing popular sovereignty -
battle
The Insurrection of 10 August 1792 was one of the defining events in the history of the French Revolution -
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Louis XVI is sentenced to the guillotine -
law of suspects
Suspects Initiates, French Friends, Letters Patent, French Revolution Pg1, 1836 Letters, 1793 Law, Suspects List
The Law of Suspects list is drawn up and the clergy along with the nobles are domed. Morris explains ”Pray tell your French friends not to name anyone in their letters, for they will bring their friends to the guillotine.” -
the queens defendens
On October 14th, 1793, I happened to be in the country when I received the news that I had been named with M. Tronson Ducoudray to defend the Queen before the revolutionary tribunal, and that the trial was to start on the following morning at eight o'clock.I immediately set out for the prison filled with a sense of the sacred duty which had been imposed on me, mingled with an intense feeling of bitterness -
Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Henry Knox
28 March 1794 By the President’s order Bw Dandridge has the honor to inform the Secretary of War that the President thinks the fortification of New York much more difficult to be accomplished than that of any other place intended to be fortified—he therefore thinks it proper that the most skilful of the engineers should be selected for that purpose. -
Robespierre overthrown in France
On July 27, 1794 (9 Thermidor in the Revolutionary calendar), Robespierre and his allies were placed under arrest by the National Assembly. Robespierre was taken to the Luxembourg prison in Paris, but the warden refused to jail him, and he fled to the Hotel de Ville. Armed supporters arrived to aid him, but he refused to lead a new insurrection. When he received word that the National Convention had declared him an outlaw, he shot himself in the head but only succeeded in wounding his jaw. Short -
13 Vendémiaire
13 Vendémiaire Year 4 is the name given to a battle between the French Revolutionary troops and Royalist forces in the streets of Paris. The battle was largely responsible for the rapid advancement of Republican General Napoleon Bonaparte's career -
national convention
National Convention, French Convention Nationale , assembly that governed France from September 20, 1792, until October 26, 1795, during the most critical period of the French Revolution