August 27: The Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, drafted largely by Lafayette.

August 28: The Assembly debates giving the King the power to veto legislation.

August 30: Camille Desmoulins organizes an uprising at the Palais-Royal to block the proposed veto for the King and to force the King to return to Paris.
The uprising fails.

August 31: The Constitution Committee of the Assembly proposes a two-house parliament and a royal right of veto.

September 9: The Mayor of Troyes is assassinated by a mob.

September 11: The National Assembly gives the King the power to temporarily veto laws for two legislative sessions.

September 15: Desmoulins publishes Discours de la lanterne aux Parisiens, a radical pamphlet justifying political violence and exalting the Parisian mob.

September 16: First issue of Jean Paul Marat's newspaper, L'Ami du peuple, proposing a radical social and political revolution.

September 19: Election of a new municipal assembly in Paris, with three hundred members elected by districts.

October 1: At the banquet des Gardes du Corps du Roi in Versailles, which Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and the Dauphin attended at dessert time, the King's guards put on the white royal cocarde.
The false news quickly reaches Paris that the guards had trampled on the tricolor and causes outrage.
August 27: The Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, drafted largely by Lafayette.
August 28: The Assembly debates giving the King the power to veto legislation.
August 30: Camille Desmoulins organizes an uprising at the Palais-Royal to block the proposed veto for the King and to force the King to return to Paris. The uprising fails.
August 31: The Constitution Committee of the Assembly proposes a two-house parliament and a royal right of veto.
September 9: The Mayor of Troyes is assassinated by a mob.
September 11: The National Assembly gives the King the power to temporarily veto laws for two legislative sessions.
September 15: Desmoulins publishes Discours de la lanterne aux Parisiens, a radical pamphlet justifying political violence and exalting the Parisian mob.
September 16: First issue of Jean Paul Marat's newspaper, L'Ami du peuple, proposing a radical social and political revolution.
September 19: Election of a new municipal assembly in Paris, with three hundred members elected by districts.
October 1: At the banquet des Gardes du Corps du Roi in Versailles, which Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and the Dauphin attended at dessert time, the King's guards put on the white royal cocarde. The false news quickly reaches Paris that the guards had trampled on the tricolor and causes outrage.
Timeline of the French Revolution