987 Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France till the French Revolution in 1792.
1786 French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened.
1789 French Revolution: citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners.
1789 French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
1789 French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October
1790 French Revolution: the Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
1790 Edmund Burke publishes ''Reflections on the Revolution in France'', in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
1790 Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
1791 Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.
1792 French Revolution: 0 August (French Revolution)|Storming of the Tuileries Palace
1792 During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
1792 French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
1793 During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic, and the period known as the Reign of Terror begins.
1793 French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the ''revolutionary dictatorship''.
1793 French Revolution: a levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
1793 French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
1793 French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
1793 Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1793 In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.
1793 The Battle of Savenay, decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in Revolt in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
1794 Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the ''Ferme Générale'', is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
1794 French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution".
1794 Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
1802 Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
1802 By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution