French Revolution Timeline (France)

French Revolution

Timeline 1789-1793

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1789

Storming of the Bastille

France declares war on Britain and Netherlands

Louis & Marie Antoinette flee; captured at Varennes

On 14 July 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed.

The royal Flight to Varennes (French: Fuite à Varennes) during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, his queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution.

The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 and resulting from the French Revolution. They pitted France against Great Britain, the Holy Roman Empire, Prussia, Russia, and several other monarchies.

Civil Constitution of the French Clergy

Parisians storm Tuileries palace; end of Louis XVI’s power

The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was an attempt to reform and regulate the Catholic church in France. It was passed by the National Constituent Assembly on July 12th 1790. ... It also required bishops and then all clergy to swear an oath of loyalty to the state, to be taken in January 1791.

August 10- Parisians Storm Tuileries Palace; End Of Louis XVI's Power. With the capture of Louis XVI, the monarchy did not exist in France. King Louis was declared guilty and was executed on January 21st, 1793. On September 22, the first republic for France, known as the French republic was proclaimed.

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