AOS 2 France + all govt name changes (even AOS1)

August Decrees

4-11th Aug 1789

DORMAC

26 Aug 1789

NCA votes for one house legislature

10 Sep 1789

NCA votes for Louis XVI to have power of suspensive veto

11 Sep 1789

decree of Fundamental Principles of Govt

1st Oct 1789

active and passive citizen distinction is made

29 Oct 1789

nationalisation of Church Property

2 Nov 1789

first issue of assignats

19 Dec 1789

monastic vows banned

13 Feb 1790

France divided into 83 departments

26 Feb 1790

abolition of lettres de cachet

16 March 1790

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

12 July 1790

Clerical Oath

27 Nov 1790

declaration of NA

17th June 1789

NA renamed to NCA

9th July 1789

NCA becomes LA

Oct 1st 1791

LA becomes NC and French victory at Valmy over Prussian forces

20 Sep 1792

NC holds it’s final session and Constitution of Year III comes into effect

26th Oct 1795

Pope condemns the Civil Constitution of the Clergy

13 April 1791

Le Chaplier law passed (prohibits workers unions/strikes)

14th June 1791

Louis XVI’s flight

20- 21st June 1791

Louis XVI/family are brought back to Paris publically by the NG

25 June 1791

Champ de Mars massacre

17th July 1791

Declaration of Pillnitz (Austrian/Prussian support for monarchy)

27 Aug 1791

Louis XVI signs off on Constitution of 1791

13 Sep 1791

France declares war on Austria

20 April 1792

LA declares the Homeland in Danger decree

11 July 1792

Brunswick Manifesto

25 July 1792

Mayor Petion went to LA and demanded on behalf of 47/48 Paris sections that the monarchy be abolished

3 Aug 1792

meeting of Parisians in Champ de Mars demanding the king abdicate

6 Aug 1792

Revolutionary Commune is established

9-10 Aug 1792

Storming of the Tuileries/ Fall of the King

10 Aug 1792

LA decreed all refractory priests should leave Paris within 7 days

23 Aug 1792

LA decreed all feudal dues abolished without compensation (unless validated by a separate legally binding contract)

25 Aug 1792

Danton orders house to house searches for counter-revolutionary suspects (swelled prison populations of Paris)

28 Aug 1792

September Massacres

2-7 Sep 1792

NC declares abolition of the monarchy/ declares France a republic with this being day one of the Republic year one

22 Sep 1792

Committee of General Security is established

Oct 1792

Louis Capet trial begins

10 Dec 1792

Louis Capet is executed

21 Jan 1793

France declares war on UK/Dutch Republic due to First Coalition

1st Feb 1793

Representatives on mission established

9 March 1793

Revolutionary Tribunal established

10 March 1793

Barere supported by Danton told the NC that the state should assume the monopoly of authorised violence

18 March 1793

NC decrees levee en masse of 300,000 men

24 Feb 1793

Vendee Revolts begin

March 1793

Committee of Surveillance is established

21st March 1793

Committee of Public Safety is established

6 April 1793

NC decrees ordering all women home from the front

30 April 1793

Law of Maximum (set a max on wheat/flour prices)

4 May 1793

Girodins expelled from the NC

31 May- 2 June 1793

Federalist Revolts

June- Aug 1793

Barere gives the order to subdue the Vendee region/ “scorched earth” policy

1st Aug 1793

second levee en masse calls for further 800,000 men

23 Aug 1793

Day of Enrages

4-5 Sep 1793

Law of Suspects

17 Sep 1793

Law of General Maximum

29 Sep 1793

Marie Antionette is guillotined

16 Oct 1793

Brissot and other Girodins are guillotined

31 Oct 1793

Phillipe-Egalite (former Duc de Orleans) is guillotined

7 Nov 1793

De-Christianisation campaign begins

10 Nov 1793

Bailly is guillotined

12 Nov 1793

Law of 14 Frimaire

4th Dec 1793

Herbertists executed

24 March 1794

Dantonists executed

5th April 1794

NC decreed the French people recognise the Supreme Being and the Immortality of Soul

7th May 1794

Festival of the Supreme Being

8th June 1794

Law of 22 Prairial

10th June 1794

Robespierre’s execution

28 July 1794

Constitution of Year III was enacted

22 Aug 1795

King gives qualified acceptance of August Decrees and DORMAC

19 Sep 1789

October Days/Women’s March to Versailles

5-6th Oct 1789

Nobility abolished

19 June 1790

Robespierre elected to the Committee of Public Safety

27th July 1793

Govt by Terror begins

5 Sep 1793

Constitution of 1793

24th June 1793

Constitution of 1793 suspended until peace

10th Oct 1793

Slavery abolished

4th Feb 1794

Law of 22 Prairial repealed

1st Aug 1794