On June 17, 1789, after Louis denied its petition for a one man-one vote policy, the Third Estate seceded and formed the National Assembly. On July 11 Louis XVI ordered the army to disband it.

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe ... would not grant them citizenship as decreed by the National Assembly of France in its "Declaration of the Rights of Man." ...

After the revolution of 1789, French citizens sought uniform weights and measures throughout the nation. The National Assembly and subsequent national governments commissioned the Paris Academy of ...

On Dec. 3, 1789, the Virginia General Assembly signed an act allowing it to cede some land for a national capital. D.C. wasn’t always the nation’s capital — when the U.S. was first founded ...