LOUIS XVI´S EXECUTION

Execution 2:

Write the following events in CHRONOLOGICAL order - the order in which they happened. Look at the dates to help you.

1.      ☺ On 20th June 1791 Louis XV1 tried to escape from Paris.

2.      In the spring of 1792 the Austrians invaded France and threatened to destroy Paris if the royal family were hurt.

3.      On 10th August 1792 the King's palace was attacked.

4.      On 21st September 1792 a new parliament was set up. It voted for a republic -a country without a monarch.

5.      In December 1792 Louis XVI the king, was put on trial. He was accused of being a traitor to France by plotting with Austria.

6.      On 21st January 1793 the King was executed in Paris - at the Place de la Revolution.

7.      On 16th October 1793 Marie Antoinette, the Queen, was executed.