French Revolution Timeline
June 17, 1789 3rd Estate Declares itself the National Assembly
June 20, 1789 Tennis Court Oath
July 14, 1789 Storming of the Bastille
Aug 27, 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man
Oct 5, 1789 Paris marches on Versailles in support of National Assembly
June 1791 Royal family captured
Sep 21, 1792 Monarchy abolished
Dec 1792 King on trial for conspiring against the liberty of the French people
Jan 1793 Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette executed
I. State of the Empire on the eve of revolution
First & Second Estates vs. The Third Estate
Economic problems leads to calling of Estates General
II. The Beginnings of the Revolution
Third declares itself the national assembly
Tennis Court Oath June 20, 1789
Storming of the Bastille July 14, 1789.
The Great Fear
Declaration of Rights of Man Aug 27, 1789
Paris rises in support of Assembly - march on Versailles Oct 5, 1789
June 1791 the royal family flees, captured and returned to Paris
III. The Radical Phase 1792-94
Counter revolution by conservative nobles, clergy and peasants
Austria threatens France
War against Austria and Prussia
End of the Monarchy
September 21, 22 Assembly abolished the monarchy
December 1792 King on trial for conspiring against the liberty of the French people
Executed January 1793.
"The Aristocratic Hydra"
IV. Exportation of Revolution
The war continues
1793 France victorious and expands
crusade against “privilege and tyranny, against aristocrats and princes”
All of Europe unites to fight France
civil wars expand in France.
V. Moderates Gain Power
“liberty, equality and fraternity”
conscription
Committee of Public Safety
Reign of Terror
Maximilien Roberspierre
End of the Radicals
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