In Assassin's Creed Unity, which historic uprising provides the main setting?

The French Revolution provides the main historical setting of Assassin's Creed Unity.

The game takes place in Paris beginning in 1789, the year the French Revolution erupted. Players control Arno Dorian, an Assassin drawn into a conspiracy involving the Brotherhood, the Templars, and influential figures during the upheaval.

Unity includes recognizable locations and events associated with revolutionary Paris, including the Bastille, the Palace of Versailles, and the storming of the Tuileries Palace. Its story uses the political crisis as a backdrop rather than presenting a complete historical account of the Revolution.

The French Revolution is sometimes confused with the later Russian Revolution of 1917 because both involved the collapse of an established political order. Unity is specifically associated with France in the late eighteenth century, while Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia covers a much later period.