The french revolution

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

  • The storming and fall of the Bastille.

  • The end of feudalism and serfdom in France is announced by the National Assembly

  • Louis XVI and his family are arrested while trying to flee from France.

  • King Louis XVI accepts the new constitution. He will sign it tomorrow.

  • fall of the French monarchy after storming the Tuileries Palace by the National Guard of the Insurrectional Paris Commune and revolutionary fédérés from Marseilles and Brittany

  • King Louis XVI executed

  • The Queen’s Defense

  • The Kościuszko Uprising

  • Robespierre overthrown in France

  • 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.

  • The Convention dissolves itself in favour of a dictatorship of the Directorate.