French Revolution Important Dates

Question 1

Storming of Bastille Date

Answer 1

July 1789

Question 2

Women’s March

Answer 2

Angry, armed women force the King and Queen to leave Versailles and come back to Paris

Question 3

Flight to Varennes

Answer 3

King and Queen get caught trying to escape France

Question 4

Estates General

Answer 4

Meeting of Representatives to try to fix problems in France

Question 5

Bastille

Answer 5

Prison stormed by rioters in Paris officially starting the French Revolution

Question 6

Flight to Varennes date

Answer 6

June 1791

Question 7

Estates General date

Answer 7

May 1789

Question 8

Women’s March

Answer 8

October 1789

Question 9

Reign of Terror

Answer 9

Radical revolutionary leaders executed anyone suspected of being an enemy of the revolution

Question 10

War with Austria & Prussia

Answer 10

Foreign countries feared revolts and were angered at the treatment of their cousins, the French monarchs

Question 11

Execute Louis XVI

Answer 11

France’s new Republic claimed the King was guilty of treason

Question 12

Execution of Louis XVI Date

Answer 12

21 January 1793

Question 13

War with Austria & Prussia date

Answer 13

France on Austria April 1792 Prussia with austria on france June 1792

Question 14

Reign of terror date

Answer 14

September 5, 1793 – July 27, 1794