Age of Revolutions · TURNING POINT · 1789

Storming of the Bastille (1789)

14 Jul 1789 — Looking for gunpowder, a Paris crowd took the fortress-prison. The garrison fell while the king’s army stood aside. Power had passed into other hands.

When: 14 Jul 1789
Type: Turning point
Chapter: French Revolution (chapter 3 of Age of Revolutions)
Atlas: The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848

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