French revolution
Overthrow of the monarchy
- August 10, 1792 - The overthrow of the monarchy occurred on the 10th of August 1792. This was the day in which the French revolutionaries over threw the monarchy because they found Louis XVI guilty of treason.
Execution of the King
- January 21, 1793 - This was the day that King Louis XVI was executed by the guillotine. The revolutionaries made Marie Antoinette watch as the King lost his head.
Storming of the Bastille
- July 14, 1789 - The Bastille is a French prison which is located in Paris, France. On the afternoon of the 14th of July 1789 the Bastille was stormed by an angry and aggressive mob. The Bastille in during the French Revolution was a symbol of power and the monarchy's dictatorial rule. The Bastille only held seven prisoners at the time but the mob didn't come for them. They came for the huge ammunition storages that were kept in the prison. The governor wasn't complying with the mob, so after a violent battle the mob seized control of the Bastille and the governor was killed with his head put on a spike for everyone to see.
Execution of Robespierre
- July 27 1794 - This was towards the end of the French Revolution. Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a lawyer, politician and one of the best know and one of the most influential people in the French Revolution. He was against the death penalty but he played the biggest role in the execution of King Louis XVI. Robespierre was a big figure in the French Revolution but he was like a dictator and a tyrant. The French people didn't like him so the ordered his arrest. He was arrested alongside his brother, St-Just, François Hanriot, and Le Bas. They were trialed and sent to the guillotine the very next day.
Royal Family attempts to flee
- June 20, 1791 - The royal family attempted to flee Paris to Varennes. King Louis XVI realised that things were becoming too dangerous for them because of the Revolution. When they were caught in Varennes the trust of the revolutionary government to them faded completely and the revolutionary government became hostile towards to royal family.
The First invasion of the Tuileries
- June 20, 1792 - This is one of the Revolutionary turning points. On this day a little more than three years after the attack on the Bastille, the people of Paris laid siege on the Tuileries. The Tuileries was the official home of King Louis XVI and the Legislative Assembly.
Call of the Estate General
- May 5, 1789 - The French Revolution started because of King Louis XVI. France was losing a plethora of money and was on the verge of bankruptcy. The reason why they were in this state is that King Louis XV spent a lot of money; King Louis XVI lavishly spent money and during the American Revolution France gave a generous contribution. This series of events led up to the French Monarch convening to the Estate General to order a new land tax levy which the King hoped will ease his difficulty. The Estate General consisted of the clergy, the middle class and the lower class citizens.
Execution of the Queen
- October 16, 1793 - This was the day that Marie Antoinette was executed by the guillotine. She was the first execution after the Reign of Terror started.
March on Versailles
- October 5-6, 1789 - The woman set out on a march from Paris to Versailles in the hopes to get bread for it was too expensive for them to buy. They were armed with pitchforks and pikes and muskets. To the beat of a drum, the woman chanted "Bread! Bread!"- for despite the fertile French soil, the populace of Paris were starving while The King and Marie Antoinette continued to feast at their salubrious country's gaffe.
Reign of Terror
- September 5 1793- July 28 1794 - execution of 2,400 people in Paris - The Reign of Terror was a period of about 6 months. The Reign of Terror was when most of the executions were done. It started after King Louis died and the first execution was Marie Antoinette. She was separated from King Louis and was just with her children. Her son Louis XVII suspiciously disappeared and they never saw him again.
Tennis Court Oath
On 17 June 1789, the Third Estate, led by Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, began to call themselves the National Assembly. On the morning of 20 June, the deputies were shocked to discover that the chamber door was locked and guarded by soldiers. Immediately fearing the worst and anxious that a royal attack by King Louis XVI was imminent, the deputies congregated in a nearby indoor tennis court where they took a solemn collective oath "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established". This oath would come to have major significance in the revolution as the Third Estate would constantly continue to protest to have more representation.