FRENCH & RUSSIA REV

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Accession of Louis XVI (crowned 1775)

10 MAY 1774

American War of Independence; Declaration of Independence adopted on 4 July 1776

APRIL 1775–SEPTEMBER 1783

Assembly of Notables meets to approve Calonne’s universal taxation proposal; Assembly dismissed after refusing to endorse reforms; beginning of Aristocratic Revolt

FEBRUARY– MAY 1787

King holds royal session with Parlement of Paris to assert his royal authority

NOVEMBER 1787

‘Day of Tiles’ occurs in Grenoble; riots break out in support of local parlement

7 JUNE 1788

King calls Estates-General for 1 May 1789; elections of deputies and writing of cahiers de doléances from each estate take place

AUGUST 1788

Treasury payments suspended; the Crown is bankrupt

16 AUGUST 1788

Parlement of Paris decrees that Estates-General must meet according to the rules of 1614

25 SEPTEMBER 1788

Cahiers are drawn up, elections held, pamphlets circulated and political clubs form ahead of Estates-General

JANUARY–MAY 1789

Sieyès publishes What Is the Third Estate?

JANUARY 1789

Peasant disturbances begin

MARCH 1789

Réveillon Riots: violent crowds protest rumoured wage reductions

26–29 APRIL 1789

Estates-General begins; king makes no decision on voting rights; Third Estate refuses to verify their election in separate chamber

5 MAY 1789

Third Estate declares themselves the National Assembly

17 JUNE 1789

Tennis Court Oath; deputies swear to stay together until a constitution is established

20 JUNE 1789

Storming of the Bastille

14 JULY 1789

‘The Great Fear’ occurs, a rural revolt across France caused by fears of backlash from nobles; this sparks attacks on castles

20 JULY–6 AUGUST 1789

‘Night of Patriotic Delirium’: mass renunciation of noble and clerical privileges leads to August Decrees

4 AUGUST 1789

August Decrees

4–11 AUGUST 1789

Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen (DORMAC) proclaimed

26 AUGUST 1789

Women’s March on Versailles: king is forcibly moved to Paris

5–6 OCTOBER 1789

Church property nationalised

2 NOVEMBER 1789

Monastic vows banned

13 FEBRUARY 1790

Nobility abolished

19 JUNE 1790

Civil Constitution of the Clergy enacted

12 JULY 1790

Festival of the Federation (Fête de la Federation)

14 JULY 1790

Oath of the Clergy introduced

27 NOVEMBER 1790

Louis XVI and his family are captured at Varennes after they attempt to flee

20–21 JUNE 1791

Massacre at Champ de Mars: National Guard opens fire on demonstrators

17 JULY 1791

Declaration of Pillnitz

27 AUGUST 1791

Demonstrators invade Tuileries Palace and force king to wear red liberty cap

20 JUNE 1792

Brunswick Manifesto threatens Parisians if royal family is harmed. Its circulation in Paris causes fury against the king

25 JULY–28 JULY 1792

Assembly declares the homeland in danger (La patrie en danger)

11 JULY 1792

Louis XVI is deposed by armed insurrection organised by the Paris Commune and the sections

10 AUGUST 1792

September Massacres (murders of non-juring clergy and prisoners thought to be royalists)

2–7 SEPTEMBER 1792

Convention proclaims abolition of monarchy, declaring France a republic

22 SEPTEMBER 1792

Louis XVI executed

21 JANUARY 1793

Vendée region revolts

11 MARCH 1793

Revolutionary Tribunal established

10 MARCH 1793

Committees of Surveillance established

21 MARCH 1793

Committee of Public Safety established

6 APRIL 1793

Sans-culottes and National Guard in conjunction with Jacobins expel the Girondins from the Convention

31 MAY–2 JUNE 1793

Jean-Paul Marat assassinated by Charlotte Corday

13 JULY 1793

Decree of levée en masse: mass mobilisation of entire population

23 AUGUST 1793

Marie Antoinette executed, followed by deaths of the 21 Girondin leaders

16 OCTOBER 1793

De-Christianisation campaign begins

10 NOVEMBER 1793

Law of 14 Frimaire enacted

4 DECEMBER 1793

Festival of the Supreme Being

8 JUNE 1794

Law of 22 Prairial enacted

10 JUNE 1794

Robespierre executed

28 JULY 1794

White Terror begins (ends in July 1795)

DECEMBER 1794