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King Louis XVI Crowned
This is when the young King Louis XVI was crowned and problems started. -
Estates General
The Estates General for the first time in 175 years meet each other. -
The Creation of the National Assembly
The third estate declared itself the National Assembly of France after being unfairly treated by the First and Second estates. -
The Tennis Court Oath
The Third Estate is locked out of their meeting hall, so the group (now calling themselves the National Assembly) meet in an indoor tennis court. They take a oath not to leave until a constitution is created and approved by the National Assembly. -
Storming of the Bastille
When rumors of other nations armies arose the people of France looked for arms. The people asked for arms form the Bastille, a prison and armory, and they were denied and attacked. Then they stormed the Bastille and tore it down brick by brick. -
Guillotine Made
The Guillotine was invented on this date in France. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
The National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man, inspired by the American Declaration of Independence. -
Women March on Versailles
Women raided Versailles for bread and food and have the king lower taxes. They made the royal family move to paris and be the parisians prisoners. -
Flight to Varnnes
The King and his family try to escape paris but is stopped. The people took this as the king abandoning their country so the king was hanged in the days to come. -
The September Massacre
It was a wave of killings in Paris in summer of 1792, during the French Revolution. There was a fear that foreign and royalist armies would attack Paris and that the inmates of the prisons would join them. -
The Execution of King Louis XVI
The king was executed on the charge of treason. -
The Creation of the Committee of Public Safety
The Committee of Public Safety were 12 men who claimed to rule france as a oligarchy. -
The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
The assassin was hanged a few days later. Jean-Paul came to be known as a legend after his assassination. -
The Execution of Maximillian Robespierre
Robespierre was executed after he started to make a new religion of France. The people became mad and executed him. -
The Creation of the Directory
The French revolutionaries made a new constitution which ran for four years but was put out of use after Napoleon gains control. -
Napoleon Gains Control
Napoleon Bonaparte becomes the new king of France and people were celebrating it since the revolution has come to a close. -
The Reign of Terror
This was when there was Jacobist rule in France and people were being guillotined by the hundreds. -
The Last Use of a Guillotine
The last person to be executed in France was Hamida Djandoubi, who was executed by the guillotine.
