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| 1789 |
| | | The painter Jacques-Louis David sketches the events in the Versailles tennis court | |
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| 1789 |
| | | An excited Paris mob liberates the seven prisoners held in the forbidding fortress of the Bastille | |
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| 1789 |
| | | Parisians force their way into the palace at Versailles and insist on Louis XVI and his royal family accompanying them back to Paris | |
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| 1789 |
| | | French doctor Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposes a decapitation machine as a more humane form of capital punishment | |
|  | Marie Antoinette kneeling before the guillotine, 1793
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1790 |
| | | Anglo-Irish politician Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, a blistering attack on recent events across the Channel | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Louis XVI and his family attempt to flee from Paris to the border but are captured at Varennes | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Stationed at Valence, Napoleon becomes president of the local Jacobin club and makes radical speeches against the nobility and clergy | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Thomas Paine publishes the first part of The Rights of Man, his reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France | |
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| 1792 |
| | | In a first demonstration of the gullotine, a highwayman is beheaded in a Paris square | |
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| 1792 |
| | | A French officer, Rouget de Lisle, writes a stirring anthem for France, soon to be known as the Marseillaise | |
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