Preceden

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Main

Departments Created

1789

The Estates General

1789

The Great Fear

1789

The Tennis Court Oath

June 20, 1789

Fall of the Bastile

July 14, 1789

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

August 26, 1789

The Bread March

October 5, 1789

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

July 12, 1790

Louis (and the family) attempt escape

June 21, 1791

The Legislative Assembly

October 1, 1791 - September 5, 1792

War Declared on Austria

April 20, 1792

The National Convention

September 20, 1792 - October 26, 1795

Robespierre joins the Committee of Public Safety

1793

Louis XVI guillotined

January 21, 1793

The White Terror

January 21, 1793

Levee en Masse

August 16, 1793

The Terror

September 5, 1793 - July 28, 1794

Cult of the Supreme Being

June 8, 1794

The Themidorean Reaction

July 27, 1794

The Directory

1795 - 1799

Napoleon's Coup

1799