20th June
Flight to Varennes
Marie Antoinette leaves Paris with the royal family during the attempted escape
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Marie Antoinette biography timeline
Explore a static chronology of 11 World History Database records for Marie Antoinette. The page is generated from the same biography records used by the searchable database, making important life events directly crawlable and readable.
11 records
1791–1791 record span
7 event labels
1 country
Life and historical importance
Marie Antoinette: life, career and historical significance
Austrian archduchess who became queen of France through marriage to Louis XVI. Her public image became entangled with hostility to court privilege and foreign influence during the Revolution, and she was imprisoned and executed in 1793.
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Marie Antoinette: dated events and historical records
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1791
20th June
Flight to Varennes
Leaves Paris with the royal family during the attempted escape
20th June
Flight to Varennes
Marie Antoinette Queen of France left Paris with the royal family during the attempted escape.
21st June
Arrest of Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette is detained with the royal family after the escape fails at Varennes
21st June
Delay
Marie Antoinette is noticed during a stop on the route and the royal party loses secrecy
21st June
Detention
Detained with the royal family after the escape fails at Varennes
21st June
Flight to Varennes
Marie Antoinette remains with the heavy coach despite the danger that the slow vehicle will delay the escape
25th June
Return
Marie Antoinette returns to the Tuileries under guard after the failed flight to Varennes
25th June
Return
Returns to the Tuileries under guard after the failed flight to Varennes
June
Return Journey
Marie Antoinette endures the guarded journey back to Paris under hostile public scrutiny
September
Declaration of the Rights of Woman
Olympe de Gouges addresses the Declaration of the Rights of Woman to her
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