French Revolution: dates and stats

17 July - 3 August 1789

great fear and abolition of fedualism

riots every provine excpet brittany, alsace and lorraine due to fear of nobility gathering forces to sypress peasants

August 1789

August Decrees

26 August 1789

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

'men are born and remain equal in rights'

September 1789

Banquet of the Flounders Regiment

Louis allegedly trampled on a cockade

5 October 1789

Women's March on Versailles

6000-7000 women

6 October 1789

Royal family escorted to the Tuileries Palace by a mob AKA October days

56 monarchist deputies gave up their posistions in fear of the mob

November 1789

Nationalisation of church land

- monks/nuns could be useful

- redress balance after exploitation of church for many years

- attack on god however and bishops condemned constituent assembly from their pulpits

December 1789

active and passive citizens, assignat issued, Protestants given citizenship

January 1790

Jews legally allowed to be Jews

February 1790

State begun to sell monastic wealth and property, 83 departments created and local councils

12 July 1790

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

27 November 1790

Oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy

7/83 bishops took the oath

over half of parish priests refused

December 1790

Louis forced to accept the Civil Constitution of the Clergy

April 1791

Pope condemns Civil Constitution of the Clergy

Only 50% of parish clergy swore

7/160 bishops swore

September 1791

Legislative ASSEMBLY Approval of new constitution and beginning of legislative assembly. Louis accepts political change

1791

New taxation system

1791

264/745 feuilliants in leg assembly and 136 jacobin and girondin but jacobin were pop

20-21 June 1791

Flight to Varennes

- plan was to get to Montmedy (frecnh frontier town)

- coach only travelled 160km before they got caught

17 July 1791

Champ de Mars Massacre

27 August 1791

Emperor Leopold II issues the Declaration of Pillnitz

1 October 1791

First meeting of the Legislative Assembly

9 November 1791

All émigrés ordered to return to France by 1 January 1792, or be sentenced as a traitor to death

29 November 1791

Decree against refractory priests

1 March 1792

Marie Antoinette's brother, Emperor Leopold, dies

20 April 1792

France declares war on Austria

May 1792

Refractory priests could be deported and religious dress banned

May-June 1792

Louis vetoes a series of reform made by the legislative assembly and dismisses his entire Assembly

- one law was that all refractory priests to be deported

- another was 20000 guards

July 1792-September 1793

General Assemblies of the sections went into permanent session

20 June 1792

1st journeé sans culottes, royal family removed to Temple prison

- 8000 sans culottes

- federes arrived too and sang - La Marseillase (national anthem)

11 July 1792

Assembly issues La Patrie en Danger

25 July 1792

Brunswick Manifesto

Duke of Brunswick threatened to put city of Paris to military punishment and total destruction if harm shall come to the royal family

Crystallised alarm and fear amongst Parisians, directing more ill-feeling towards the royal family as they questioned Louis' loyalties

10 August 1792

Invasion of the Tuileries journee and Royal Family removed to Temple Prison and all vetoed laws put into place

- 30 000 ciitzens, ng, federes, sc

- 600 guards killed of 1000

17 August 1792

Revolutionary Tribunals set up to try priests

26 August 1792

Refractory priests given two weeks to leave or face deportation

1 September 1792

News reaches Paris that Verdun, the last fortress on the way to the capital, was under siege, the Duke of Brunswick would reach Paris in 2 weeks

2 September 1792

21st september 1792

Danton launches a levee forcing conscription on pain of death, Onset of the September massacres for 5 days, coincided with the voting for elections for the new national com

national convention established - males over age of 21 could vote/stand

20 November 1792

Roland announces the discovery of the armoire de fer

11 December 1792

Citizen Louis Capet indicted for "a multitude of crimes in the establishment of tyranny" and having "violated the sovereignty of the people"

21 January 1793

Execution of Louis XVI

1762

philosophers creating texts attacking ancien regime

The social contract by rousseau

1756-1763

Seven Years War

1775 winter to spring

Bad Harvest combined with free trade reforms lead to flour wars

1778

Franco-American Alliance rev

1781

Necker's Compte Rendu and resigns

1783

Calonne becomes Controller-General

1784

Affair of diamond necklace

1787

Calonne is dismissed and replaced w brienne

1787

Paris parlement rejects Louis finiciak reforms/ edicts and exiled in August

1788

Brienne resigns

Then calonne comes in

Then necker comes in

1788

Cahiers de Dolances

1788

Bad harvests lead to day of tiles

1775

Flour wars

17th June 1789

Third estate declares itself the National Assembly by sieyes

20 June 1789

Tennis Court Oath

14th July 1789

Storming of the Bastille

1 February 1793

France declares war on Great Britain

11 March 1793

Vendee Revolt

1793

CPS

Federalist revolt in lyon

1793

4 May 1793

Law of Maximum

2 June 1793

Girondin deputies purged by sans culottes

13 July 1793

Marat is assassinated by Charlotte Corday

27 July 1973

Robespierre takes over CPS

23 aug 1793

levee en masse

5 September 1793

Armees revoultionaires

17th September 1793

Law of Suspects

29th September 1793

General Maximum

October 1793

Marie Antoinette executed

Calendar in effect

Brissot and other girondin leaders executed

Vendee army defeated

4 December 1793

Law of Frimaire

24th march 1794

Execution of Hebertists

8th June 1794

Festival of the Supreme Being

10th June 1794

Law of Prairial

27 July 1794

Coup of Thermidor

28th July 1794

Robespierre and saint just executed

1795

White terror - jacobins killed

1 April 1795

Rising of germinals

Bread shortages

5 October 1795

Vendémiare. Royalist uprising. 25,000 Parisians (muscadins and owners) march on convention. Napoleon saves day with 40 canon . Kills 300 disgust crowd (grapeshot)

September 1795

Comte d'Artois (XVI's brother) launches an unsuccessful emigre invasion of the Vendee

May 1796

Babeuf conspiracy and plot

April 1796

Napoleon invades Italy

1797

Coup of Fructidor

1798

Coup of floreal

9 november 1799

Coup of Brumaire

June 1799

Jourdans law

July 1799

Law of hostages