French Revolution AOS2

August Decrees

11 August 1789

Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen

26 August 1789

"a statement of bourgeois idealism”

Rude

National Constituent Assembly grants Louis XVI suspensive veto

11 September 1789

Fundamental Principles of Government

1 October 1789

October Days

5-6 October 1789

“constant motive… the need for cheap and plentiful bread”

Rude - popular movement

Royal Family and National Constituent Assembly moved to Paris

7 October 1789

“his own virtual imprisonment”

Schama - October Days

active and passive citizenry splits

29 October 1789

Church property nationalised

2 November 1789

Monastic vows suspended

13 February 1790

civil constitution of the clergy proclaimed

12 July 1790

Oath of the Clergy introduced

27 November 1790

“faithful to the nation, the law, and the king”

Clerical Oath

“effectively destroyed the revolutionary consensus”

Rees - Civil Constitution of the Clergy

Papal Bull Charitas

13 April 1791

“urge you not to abandon your religion… shun all invaders”

Papal Bull Charitas

Robespierre introduces self-denying ordinance

May 1791

Louis and royal family attempt to flee (Flight to Varennes)

20 June 1791

“revealed his true colours”

Soboul - Flight to Varennes

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

21 June 1791

Padua Circular - called for European states to form a union

6 July 1791

Champ de Mars Massacre

17 July 1791

50 killed, 12 wounded

consequences of the Champs De Mars Massacre

Declaration of Pillnitz

27 August 1791

Constitution of 1791 finished

3 September 1791

“ambiguous… in wording”

McPhee - 1791 Constitution

King Louis formally accepts the 1791 Constitution

13 September 1791

National Constituent Assembly holds its final meeting

30 September 1791

Decree calling for the return of Emigres, or they would be charged with conspiracy

9 November 1791

Declaration of war against Austria

20 April 1792

“war dramatically altered the… direction of revolution”

Adcock - war

“raised both stakes and fear”

Furet - war

Demonstrators invade Tuileries palace in response to King’s vetos on Assembly decrees

20 June 1792

La Patrie en Danger Decree

11 July 1792

“save liberty and avenge your glory”

La Patrie En Danger

Brunswick manifesto threatens Parisians with 'exemplary revenge' if royal family is threatened

25 July 1792

“…give the king the security and liberty" or be “most severely punished”

Brunswick Manifesto

Revolutionary Commune is established

9 August 1792

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

10 August 1792

enemy forces capture Verdun (50km away from Paris)

2 September 1792

September massacres

2-6 September 1792

“executions were necessary to appease the people”

Danton - September Massacres

Convention proclaims abolition of monarchy, declaring France a republic

22 Sept 1792

Louis Capet’s Trial

2 December 1792

“citizen Louis Capet… a multitude of crimes”

trial of Louis XVI

“Louis must die so the country can live”

Robespierre - Louis XVI’s trial

Louis XVI executed

21 January 1793

France declares war on great Britain and Dutch republic

1 February 1793

Levee des 300,000 hommes

24 February 1793

Vendee region revolts begin

4 March 1793

revolutionary tribunal formed

10 March 1793

“let terror be the order of the day”

Barere - the terror

“let us be terrible, so the people are not so”

Danton - the terror

watch committees formed

21 March 1793

Committee of Public Safety established

April 1793

Federalist uprising in Marseilles

2 June 1793

“…sheer relentless ferocity”

Schama - Marat

Marat put on trial

14 April 1793

Girondin deputies arrested

2 June 1793

Constitution of 1793

24 June 1793

Marat murdered

13 July 1793

Robespierre elected to committee of Public Safety

27 July 1793

‘Scorched Earth’ policy in Vendee begins

1 August 1793

70% of all deaths during the terror

from the Vendee and Federalist uprisings

Decree to establish revolutionary armies

5 September 1793

Law of Suspects

17 September 1793

“conduct, associations, talk or writings have shown themselves supporters of tyranny or federalism…”

Law of Suspects

Law of the General Maximum

29 September 1793

Constitution of 1793 suspended- government 'revolutionary' until peace

10 October 1793

Girondin deputies executed

31 October 1793

dechristianisation campaign

10 November 1793

Law of 14 Frimaire; dubbed the 'constitution of the terror'

4 December 1793

“the Assembly continued to create its own counterrevolutionaries”

Adcock - The Terror and Government

Hebertists arrested

13 March 1794

Slavery abolished

4 February 1794

Hebertists guillotined

24 March 1794

Dantonists arrested

26 March 1794

Dantonists guillotined

5 April 1794

Festival of the Supreme Being

8 June 1794

Law of 22 Prairial enacted

10 June 1794

“deemed enemies of the people… the penalty… for all offences… is death”

Law of 22 Prairial

Robespierre gives his final speech

26 July 1794

Robespierre arrested

27 July 1794 (9 Thermidor II)

“marked… the rejection of a form of government”

Doyle - 9 Thermidor Year II

“President of murderers”

Thuriot - Robespierre

Robespierre guillotined

28 July 1794

17,000

executions during the terror

Law of 22 Prairial repealed

1 August 1794

prisoners sentenced not under the Law of Suspects are freed

5 August 1794

Committee of Public Safety is stripped of its executive powers

11 August 1794

Jacobin club closed

12 November 1794

freedom of religion granted

21 February 1795

Journee of 12 Germinal

1 April 1795

representatives-on-mission abolished

26 April 1795

Uprising of 1 Priarial demands reinstatement of 1793 constitution

20 May 1795

law of two-thirds passed

30 August 1795

Constitution of Year III in effect

22 September 1795

“return to the provisions of 1791” / “…marked the end of the revolution”

McPhee - 1795 Constitution