French Revolution
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Key events on this timeline
- French Revolution (1789)
- Storming of the Bastille (1789)
- Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
- Reign of Terror (1793)
- Execution of Louis XVI (1793)
- Proclamation of the First French Republic (1792)
- Coup of 18 Brumaire (1799)
- The Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly (1789)
- Storming of the Tuileries (1792)
- France abolishes feudalism in a single night (1789)
- Tennis Court Oath (1789)
- Flight to Varennes (1791)
- Estates-General of 1789 convoked (1789)
- Thermidorian Reaction (1794)
- Battle of Valmy (1792)
- Committee of Public Safety takes charge of France (1793)
- French Revolutionary Wars (1792)
- Execution of Marie Antoinette (1793)
- Revolutionary France declares war on Austria (1792)
- Women's March on Versailles (1789)
- Charlotte Corday assassinates Marat (1793)
- Levée en masse (1793)
- Vendée rebellion (1793)
- France adopts its first written constitution (1791)
- September Massacres (1792)
- Danton is guillotined (1794)
- The Great Fear sweeps rural France (1789)
- Paris crowds purge the Girondins (1793)
- French Directory (1795)
- Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790)