May 5, 1789
Meeting of Estates General
June 17, 1789
Third Estate declares itself National Assembly
June 20, 1789
Tennis Court Oath
July-August 1789 Storming
of the Bastille (July 14); Great fear in countryside; abolition of
feudalism (August 4); Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
(August 27)
October 5-6, 1789 Women's march
on Versailles; Louis XVI's return to Paris
July 1790
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
June 1791
Louis XVI attempts to flee Paris; captured and returned to Paris
September 1791
New Constitution implemented; Girondins dominate new found Legislative
Assembly
April 1792
France declares war on Austria
August 10, 1792
Storming of the Tuileries; Louis XVI arrested
September 21, 1792 National Convention declares
France a republic
January 21, 1793
Louis XVI is executed
February 1793
France declares war on Britain, Spain, and the Netherlands
June 1793
Radical Jacobins purge Girondins from National Convention
July 1793/July 1794 Reign of Terror
July 1794
Robespierre guillotined
August 1794
Thermidorian reaction begins
October 1795
Directory is established
November 1799
Napoleon seizes power