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When did Louis XVI become King of France?

10 may 1774

Who was appointed Controller-General of Finances in 1774?

turgot

Who was appointed Director-General of Finances in 1776?

Necker

Compte rendu

published by Necker in 1781 (Early January or February)

Who was appointed Controller-General of Finances in 1783?

Calonne

Assembly of Notables

22 February 1787

calonne was dismissed

8 april 1787

Who was appointed to lead the government's financial reforms in May 1787?

Brienne

When did the Parliament of Paris issue the fundamental laws of the kingdom

3 May 1788

may edicts

8 may 1788

Day of Tiles in Grenoble

7 june 1788

Louis announces the EG would meet

8 august 1788

EG opens

5 may 1789

the dispute of voting by head or by order

6 may 1789

3rd estate decleares themselves National Ass

17 june 1789

tennis court oath

20 june 1789

louis orders estates to meet separately

23 june 1789

Neckers dismissal

11 july 1789

storming of the bastille

14 july 1789

the wearing of the tricoloured cockade

17 july 1789

great fear

20 july 1789

august decrees

August 4 1789

DORMAC

26 august 1789

womans march on Versailles / October days

5-6 October 1789

nationalisation of church property

2 November 1789

Assaignats introduced

19 December 1789

hereditary nobility and titles were abolished

19 june 1790

CCC

12 july 1790

clerical oath

27 November 1790

papas bull charitus

10 march 1791

Flight to varenne

20-21 june 1791

champ de mars massacre

17 july 1791

Declaration of Pillnitz

27 August 1791

constitution of 1791

3 September 1791

louis formally accepts the constitution

14 September 1791

Leg Ass began sitting

1 October 1791

war on Austria declared

20 april 1792

the first invasion of the tuileries

20 june 1792

leg ass dec Fatherland in danger

11 july 1792

Brunswick Manifesto

25 July 1792

tullieries stormed and monarchy effectively overthrown

10 august 1792

Battle of Valmy

20 September 1792

when did the Nat Con abolish the monarchy

21 september 1792

first day of the french republic

22 september 1792

trial of louis xvi

11 December 1792

louis no more

21 January 1793

vendee uprising

march 1793

revolutionary tribunal est

10 march 1793

comm of public saftey

6 april 1793

democratic constitution of 1793

24 june 1793

jean paul marat ass

13 july 1793

levee en masse

23 august 1793

terror as the order of the day

5 september 1793

law of suspects

17 September 1793

law of the general maximum

29 September 1793

revolutionary calendar adopted

5 October 1793

marie antoinettes exectution

16 october 1793

danton and desmoulins execution

5 april 1794

cult of supreme being

7 may 1794

festival of the supreme being

8 june 1794

Law of 22 Prairial

10 june 1794

robie arrested and overthrown

27 june 1794

robie executed

28 july 1794

germinal uprising in paris against the constitution

1 april 1795

constitution of year 3

22 august 1795

Nat con dissolves

26 October 1795

day of tiles by schama

signified the breakdown of royal authority and the helplessness of military forces in the face of sustained urban disorder

turgot on the AWOI

the first gunshot will drive the state into bankruptcy

markoff on the cahiers

the peasants where consistently the most radical end and unsurprisingly the nobles the least

Abbe Sieyes

what is the 3rd estate? everything. what has it previously been? nothing. What does it wish to become? something

George Rude on the political pamphlets

the ideas of Montesquieu, voltaire, rousseau…were widely disseminated and were absorbed by an eager reading.

Mirabeau on the provinces in January 1789

having been visited by the exterminating angel. thousands of people froze to death, and many more died of hunger

garrioch on the revelliion riots

rather than a conflict of classes it was two cultures that collided here

schama on the events of the EG

the more brilliantly the first 2 orders swaggered, the more they alienated the 3rd estate and provoked it into exploding the institution altogether

schama on the fall of the bastille

during the single night of largely unobstructed riot and demolition, paris was lost to the monarchy

president of Grenoble on the great fear

there is daily talk of attacking the nobility, of setting fire to their chateaux in order to burn all their title deeds

lefebvre on the great fear

it must count as one of the most important episodes in the history of the french nation

sieyes attack on feudalism

all that is arduous in such service is preformed by the 3rd estate

revellion riots cry

death to the rich death to the autocrats

rude on necker

the sacking of necker proved to be the spark that touched on the popular insurrection in paris

Marie on the outbreak of war

the imbicliles they cannot see that this will serve us well, for…if we begin all the become involved

robie on depotism of kings

we must organise the despotism of liberty to crush to despotism of kings

schama states the terror was confined

90% of executions occurred in 20 of the 83 depeatments

doyle on danton

dantons execution marked the beginning of a new phrase of the terror

marat 1972 on traitors

let the blood of the traitors flow. that is the only way to save the country

mcphee on the SC

among the initial supporters of the revolution perhaps urban working people had sacrificed the most and gained the least