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October 1: Legislative Assembly meets - many young, inexperienced, radical deputies. November 9 All émigrés are ordered by the Assembly to return under threat of death November 11 Louis vetoes the ruling of the Assembly on émigrés and priests. 1792 January – March: Food riots in Paris February 7: Alliance of Austria and Prussia March 20: Guillotine adopted as official means of execution. April 20: France declares war against Austria April 25: Battle Hymn of the Army of the Rhine composed by Rouget de Lisle. First execution using the guillotine. April 28: France invades Austrian Netherlands (Belgium). June 20: The people storm the Tuileries and confront the king. July 5: Legislative Assembly declares that the fatherland is in danger (La Patrie en Danger). July 25: Brunswick Manifesto - warns that should the royal family be harmed by the popular movement, an "exemplary and eternally memorable revenge" will follow. July 30: Austria and Prussia begin invasion of France. July: The tricolor cockade made compulsory for men to wear. La Marseillaise sung by volunteers from Marseilles on their arrival in Paris. August 1: News of the Brunswick Manifesto reaches Paris - interpreted as proof that Louis XVI has been collaborating with the foreign Coalition. August 9: Revolutionary commune takes possession of the hôtel de ville. August 10–13: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Swiss Guard massacred. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody, along with his family. Georges Danton becomes Minister of Justice. August 16: Paris commune presents petition to the Legislative Assembly demanding the establishment of a revolutionary tribunal and summoning of a National Convention. August 19: Lafayette flees to Austria. Invasion of France by Coalition troops led by Duke of Brunswick August 22: Royalist riots in Brittany, La Vendée and Dauphiné. September 3: Fall of Verdun to Brunswick's troops. September 3–7: The September Massacres of prisoners in the Paris prisons. September 19: Dissolution of Legislative Assembly. |
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