French and Russian rev

Accession of Louis XVI to the throne

10 May 1774

American War of Independence; Declaration of Independence adopted on 4 July 1776

19 APRIL 1775–3 SEPTEMBER 1783

Day of Tiles (Grenoble)

7 June 1788

Assembly of Notables convened: meets to approve Calonne’s universal taxation proposal; Assembly dismissed after refusing to endorse reforms; beginning of Aristocratic Revolt

22 February 1787

Assembly of Notables dissolved

25 May 1787

Assembly of Notables reconvened (Second)

6 November 1788

Réveillon Riots

27–28 April 1789

King calls Estates-General for 1 May 1789; elections of deputies and writing of cahiers de doléances from each estate take place

8 AUGUST 1788

Cahiers de Doléances completed

Early 1789

Tennis Court Oath

20 June 1789

Storming of the Bastille

14 July 1789

The Great Fear begins

20 July 1789

Night of Patriotic Delirium (Abolition of Feudalism)

4 August 1789

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

26 August 1789

October Days (Women’s March to Versailles)

5–6 October 1789

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

12 July 1790

Flight to Varennes

20–21 June 1791

Champ de Mars Massacre

17 July 1791

Declaration of War on Austria

20 April 1792

Storming of the Tuileries (Fall of the Monarchy)

10 August 1792

September Massacres

2–6 September 1792

Execution of Louis XVI

21 January 1793

Committee of Public Safety established

6 April 1793

Federalist Revolts begin

June 1793

Law of Suspects

17 September 1793

Law of Frimaire (Year II)

4 December 1793

Festival of the Supreme Being

8 June 1794

Fall of Robespierre (9 Thermidor)

27 July 1794

Constitution of Year III (Directory established)

22 August 1795

Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II

26 May 1896

Russo-Japanese War begins

8 February 1904

Bloody Sunday

9 January 1905

October Manifesto issued

17 October 1905

Fundamental Laws issued

23 April 1906

Lena Goldfields Massacre

4 April 1912

Russia enters World War I

1 August 1914

Progressive Bloc formed

25 August 1915

February Revolution begins (Women’s Day protests)

23 February 1917 (O.S.)

Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II

2 March 1917

Lenin delivers April Theses

4 April 1917

July Days

3–7 July 1917

Kornilov Affair

27–30 August 1917

October Revolution (Storming of Winter Palace)

25 October 1917 (O.S.)

Decree on Land issued

26 October 1917

Cheka established

7 December 1917

Constituent Assembly dissolved

6 January 1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed

3 March 1918

War Communism introduced

June 1918

Red Terror officially declared

5 September 1918

Tambov Revolt begins

August 1920

Kronstadt Rebellion

1 March 1921

Tenth Party Congress

8–16 March 1921

NEP announced

March 1921

1921 Famine officially declared

July 1921

Lenin dies

21 January 1924

Trotsky expelled from the Politburo

1927

King holds royal session with Parlement of Paris to assert his royal authority

19 NOVEMBER 1787