History - French Rev Timeline (1789-99)

Louis XVI comes to the throne

May 1774

France enters the American war

7 July 1778

Calonne appointed as finance minister

20 August 1786

First Assembly of Notables convened

22 February 1787

Brienne replaces Calonne

8 April 1787

Edict of Versailles

7 November 1787

Day of Tiles

7 June 1788

Hailstorm that destroyed crops + worst harvest in 40 years

July 1788

France declared bankrupt

16 August 1788

Necker replaces Brienne

25 August 1788

Estates-General convene

5 May 1789

Proclamation of the National Assembly

17 June 1789

Tennis Court Oath

20 June 1789

Storming of the Bastille

14 July 1789

Abolition of Privileges

4 August 1789

Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen

26 August 1789

Women’s march on Versailles

5-6 October 1789

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

12 July 1790

Flight to Varennes

20 June 1791

Champ de Mars massacre

17 July 1791

Constitution of 1791

13-14 September 1791

First meeting of Legislative Assembly

1 October 1791

France declares war on Austria

20 April 1792

Fall of the monarchy

10 August 1792

September Massacres

September 1792

Battle of Valmy

20 September 1792

Beginning of the Republic

22 September 1792

Beginning of Louis XVI trial

11 December 1792

Execution of Louis XVI

21 January 1793

All of Europe is at war against France

February-March 1793

Vendee uprising

March 1793

Foundation of the special criminal court (soon called the ‘Revolutionary Tribunal’)

10 March 1793

Establishment of Committee of Public Safety

6 April 1793

Girondins arrested

2 June 1793

Jacobin constitution

24 June 1793

Assassination of Marat

13 July 1793

Decree of Levee en masse

23 August 1793

Law of Suspects

17 September 1793

Government is declared revolutionary until peace should be restored

10 October 1793

Trial of Marie-Antoinette

15-16 October 1793

Execution of Girondin deputies

31 October 1793

Abolition of slavery

4 February 1794

Execution of Robespierre’s enemies (Herbetists and Dantonists)

March 1794

Cult of Supreme Being

7 May 1794

The Great Terror

June 1794

Law of Prairial

10 June 1794

Arrest of Robespierre

27 July 1794

Abolition of the Revolutionary Tribunal

31 May 1795

Constitution Year III

22 August 1795

The Directory

1795-99

Napoleon Bonaparte’s takeover (Coup of Brumaire)

9-10 November 1799