VCE French Revolution AOS2

Reforms of the Church

Civil Constitution of the Clergy (12 July 1790), Oath of Allegiance (27 November 1790)

20 June 1791

Flight to Varennes

17 July 1791

Champ de Mars Massacre - 50 dead

August 1791

Declaration of Pillnitz, Austria and Prussia felt threatened by the decline of the monarchy in France, wanted to prevent the revolution from spreading.

14 September 1791

1791 Constitution

April 1792

France declared war on Austria and Prussia, and lost most of the early battles, forced to retreat into France.

18 June 1792

Lafayette proposes closing the Clubs

20 June 1792

First invasion of the Tuileries

11 July 1792

La Patrie en Danger

25 July 1792

Brunswick Manifesto

10 August 1792

2nd Invasion of the Tuileries

17 August 1792

Lafayette defects to the Austrians, Danton becomes Minister of Justice, establishes Committee of Justice

2-5 September 1792

September Massacres - 1400 out of 2400 dead.

20 September 1792

Victory at Valmy, Legislative Assembly replaced by National Constituent Assembly.

Committee of General Security

October 1792: Internal Enemies

21 January 1973

Execution of Louis XVI

February 1793

France declares war on Britain, Holland, and Spain

April 1793

Dumouriez defects

Committee of Public Safety

April 1793: External enemies

March 1793

Grand Coalition

March - December 1793

Vendée Rebellion

June 1793

Federalist Revolt - 2000 citizens dead

June 24 1793

Jacobin Constitution

13 July 1793

Marat is assassinated by Charlotte Corday

August 1793

Levée en masse

17 September 1793

Law of Suspects, people could be arrested simply for being suspected of committing a crime.

3 October 1793

Girondin deputies tried

4 December 1793

Law of Frimaire - All power to CPS, made France a dictatorship

1793-1794

Reign of Terror, 30,00 dead

June 1794

Law of 22 Prarial - removed immunity from deputies.

27 July 1794

Execution of Robespierre

12 November 1794

Jacobin Club closed

Abolition of Slavery 1794

To defend the French colonies, slaves were armed and emancipated.

22 August 1795

Constitution of Year III - return to bourgeois values

Danton

Founded the Cordeliers, Minister of War, played a role in the September Massacres, guillotined with Desmoulins

Marat

Radical journalist, L'Ami du Peuple

Robespierre

Leader of the Jacobins/Montagnards, key figure of the terror, guillotined 27 July 1794

Cordeliers

Far left, wanted to abolish religion and believed that France should be a direct democracy

Jacobins

Radical republicans during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1791 to 1794.

Lafayette

Partially responsible for the Champ de Mars massacre, fled to Austria.

Schama on Terror

"Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by-product of the revolution, it was the source of its energy."

Fenwick

"Th general will of the people had to be replaced by the single will of the state."

McPhee

"The Revolution of the Bourgeois deputies had only been secured by the active intervention of the people of Paris."

Soboul

"From this moment the King appeared as the most dangerous foe to the mass of the people; the Flight to Varennes had finally torn off the mask and revealed him in his true colours."