In Assassin's Creed Unity, which historical uprising forms the game's backdrop?

The French Revolution forms the historical backdrop of Assassin's Creed Unity.

Ubisoft released Assassin's Creed Unity in 2014, setting the game in Paris during the late eighteenth-century upheaval that began in 1789. The protagonist, Arno Dorian, becomes involved with the Assassin Brotherhood while political violence, social unrest, and the fall of the French monarchy reshape the city around him.

The game includes famous revolutionary figures and events, but its story is fictionalized and does not attempt to reproduce the entire revolution as a documentary. Historical characters such as Maximilien Robespierre and Napoleon Bonaparte appear within the broader fictional conflict between Assassins and Templars.

The American Revolution belongs primarily to Assassin's Creed III, while the Industrial Revolution is the setting of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. Those neighboring historical periods are frequent sources of confusion because all three games use real political upheavals as their settings.