|
Events
|
Year
|
Date
|
The Coronation of Louis XVI |
1775
|
June 11th
|
Necker presents the Compte Rendu |
1781
|
February 19th
|
|
Necker Resigns
|
1781
|
May 19th
|
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The American Civil War
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1775 - 1783
|
The Diamond Necklace Affair |
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|
1784 - 1785
|
The King convenes the Assembly of Notables |
1787
|
February 22nd
|
Calonne is dismissed and replaced by Brienne |
1787
|
April 8th
|
The Parliaments rebel against The King and are exiled |
1787
|
August
|
|
The King holds a royal session
|
1787
|
November 19th
|
The Parliaments says that the king must submit fiscal reform to the Estates General |
1788
|
May 3rd
|
The King calls the Estates General for May of 1789 |
1788
|
August 8th
|
|
The royal treasury suspends payments
|
1788
|
August 16th
|
|
Brienne resigns and Necker is recalled
|
1788
|
August 24th
|
The king reopens the parliaments, the Paris parelments demand that Estates-General vote by order |
1788
|
September 25th
|
The Assembly of notables meet again to discuss make up of Estates-General |
1788
|
October - December
|
|
Formal call for Estates General meeting
|
1789
|
January 24th
|
|
What is the 3rd estate is published
|
1789
|
February
|
The E.G elections and drafting of the cahiers take place |
1789
|
February - May
|
|
The Revellion Riots
|
1789
|
April 27th and 28th
|
|
The E.G opens
|
1789
|
May 5th
|
|
The 3rd estate demand voting by head
|
1789
|
May 6th
|
Clergy and Nobility accept the principle of equality in taxation |
1789
|
May 20th - 22nd
|
|
Some Parish Priests join the 3rd Estate
|
1789
|
June 13th
|
|
The 3rd estate declares itself the Assembly
|
1789
|
June 17th
|
|
The tennis court oath
|
1789
|
June 20th
|
|
A group of Nobles join with the 3rd
|
1789
|
June 25th
|
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The three orders unite
|
1789
|
June 27th
|
|
The King calls in the troops
|
1789
|
June 30th
|
Protests occur against the troops but the King does not withdraw them |
1789
|
July 2nd - 10th
|
The King sacks Necker, people get rowdy and Desmoulins encourages taking up arms |
1789
|
July 11th - 13th
|
The invasion of Les Invalides and the Bastille |
1789
|
July 14th
|
The King accepts the revolution, Bailly becomes mayor and Lafayette becomes head of the National Guard |
1789
|
July 15th
|
The troops are withdrawn and Necker is recalled |
1789
|
July 16th
|
|
Foulon and Berthier are killed by the crowd
|
1789
|
July 22nd
|
|
The Great Fear
|
1789
|
Late July
|
|
Feudalism is abolished in the August Decrees
|
1789
|
August 4th - 11th
|
|
Declaration of the rights of man and citizen
|
1789
|
August 26th
|
The Assembly grants king suspensive veto and decides on unicameral system |
1789
|
September
|
|
The October Days
|
1789
|
October 5th - 6th
|
|
Nationalisation of Church property
|
1789
|
November 27th
|
Abolition of religious orders with exception of education and healthcare |
1790
|
February 13th
|
|
France is turned into 83 departments
|
1790
|
February 26th
|
|
Honorific titles and nobility are abandoned
|
1790
|
June 19th
|
|
Civil constitution of the clergy is decreed
|
1790
|
July 12th
|
|
Lafayette organises the festival of federation
|
1790
|
July 14th
|
|
Assembly takes control of the treasury
|
1790
|
September 4th - 6th
|
|
The Pope condemns the civil constitution
|
1791
|
April 13th
|
|
The King is prevented from going to Saint Cloud
|
1791
|
April 18th
|
|
The flight to Varennes, and the King's return
|
1791
|
June 20th and 21st
|
|
The King is reinstated
|
1791
|
July 16th
|
|
Champ de Mars massacre
|
1791
|
July 17th
|
|
European nations form coalition against France
|
1791
|
July 25th
|
The King approves the constitution of 1791 and the National Assembly is dissolved |
1791
|
September 13th - 14th
|
|
The legislative assembly meets for the first time
|
1791
|
October 1st
|
|
Brissot suggests the revolutionary war
|
1791
|
October 20th
|
The Assembly orders the emigrated nobles to return or lose their land |
1791
|
November
|
|
The committee of surveillance is established
|
1791
|
November 25th
|
|
France makes an ultimatum to Austria
|
1792
|
January 25th
|
|
France declares war
|
1792
|
April 20th
|
|
Guillotine is used for the first time
|
1792
|
April 25th
|
The Assembly passes a new law against refractory priests |
1792
|
May 27th
|
Brissontin ministry is dismissed and Prussia declares war on France |
1792
|
June 13th
|
|
The King is humiliated at the Tuileries
|
1792
|
June 20th
|
|
The decree of the country in danger
|
1792
|
July 11th
|
|
The Brunswick manifesto is issued
|
1792
|
July 25th
|
|
Federal troops (from Marseille) arrive in Paris
|
1792
|
July 30th
|
The radical Paris sections demand that the King be dethroned |
1792
|
August 3rd
|
|
The invasions of the Tuileries
|
1792
|
August 10th
|
The Assembly votes for the abolition of the active/passive distinction |
1792
|
August 12th
|
|
The extraordinary tribunal is established
|
1792
|
August 17th
|
|
Lafayette defects to Austria
|
1792
|
August 19th
|
|
Prussians capture Verdun
|
1792
|
September 2nd
|
|
September Massacres
|
1792
|
September 2nd
|
|
The convention meets for the first time
|
1792
|
September 21st
|
|
The republic is proclaimed
|
1792
|
September 22nd
|
|
The trial of the King is held
|
1792
|
December 3rd - 26th
|
The condemnation of the king, passing of the death sentence and vote against reprive |
1793
|
January 7th - 18th
|
|
Le Pelletier is assassinated
|
1793
|
January 20th
|
|
The king is executed
|
1793
|
January 21st
|
France declares war on Great Britain and the Dutch Republic |
1793
|
February 1st
|
The Assembly decrees conscription of an army of 300,000 men |
1793
|
February 24th
|
|
Food shortages cause riots in Paris
|
1793
|
February 25th - 27th
|
|
The revolutionary tribunal is established
|
1793
|
March 10th
|
|
The Vendée rebellion begins
|
1793
|
March 11th
|
|
The revolutionary committees are established
|
1793
|
March 21st
|
|
Committee of Public Safety is created
|
1793
|
April 6th
|
|
Girondins fail to try Marat
|
1793
|
April 13th - 24th
|
|
Federalist rebellion in Marseille
|
1793
|
April 29th
|
|
Convention decrees the Maximum on food prices
|
1793
|
May 4th
|
|
The commission of twelve is appointed
|
1793
|
May 20th
|
|
Popular uprising in Paris against the Girondins
|
1793
|
May 31st
|
|
The Girondins are removed from the Convention
|
1793
|
June 2nd
|
The Jacobin constitution is accepted by the Convention |
1793
|
June 24th
|
|
Danton quits the committee of public safety
|
1793
|
July 10th
|
|
Marat is assassinated by Charlotte Corday
|
1793
|
July 13th
|
|
The death penalty is introduced for hoarding
|
1793
|
July 26th
|
Robespierre becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety |
1793
|
July 27th
|
|
The Levée en Masse is decreed
|
1793
|
August 23rd
|
|
Government by terror is introduced
|
1793
|
5th September
|
The Battle of Hondschoote is a turning point for the French in the War |
1793
|
September 8th
|
The law of suspects makes arrests essentially arbitrary |
1793
|
September 17th
|
|
The law of the general maximum is decreed
|
1793
|
September 29th
|
|
The revolutionary government is declared
|
1793
|
October 10th
|
|
The Trial of the Girondins takes place
|
1793
|
October 24th - 31st
|
The rebellion in Saint-Domingue forces the Convention to abolish slavery |
1794
|
February 4th
|
|
The Heberists are arrested and executed
|
1794
|
March 13th - 24th
|
|
The revolutionary armies are disbanded
|
1794
|
March 27th
|
|
Danton and Desmoulins are tried and executed
|
1794
|
April 5th
|
|
The festival of the supreme being is held
|
1794
|
June 8th
|
|
Wage controls are introduced in Paris
|
1794
|
July 5th
|
|
Robespierre and his associate fall
|
1794
|
July 27th - 28th
|
|
Trial of the Jacobins
|
1795
|
March
|
|
The rebellion of Germinal
|
1795
|
April 1st - 2nd
|
|
The rebellion of Prarial
|
1795
|
April 20th - May 2nd
|
|
Rebellion of Vendémiaire
|
1795
|
October 5th
|
|
The convention closes down
|
1795
|
October 26th
|
|
The directory is established
|
1795
|
November 2nd
|
|
The coronation of Tsar Nicolas II
|
1896
|
May 26th
|
The Japanese attack port Arthur, sparking the Russo-Japanese war |
1904
|
February 8th
|
|
Port Arthur surrenders to the Japanese
|
1904
|
December 20th
|
|
Major strikes begin in St Petersburg
|
1905
|
January 7th
|
|
Bloody Sunday petition and massacre
|
1905
|
January 9th
|
|
Strikes continue
|
1905
|
January 10th
|
Second national Zemstvo congress calls for a constituent assembly |
1905
|
April
|
|
Russians defeated at the battle of Tsushima
|
1905
|
May 14th
|
|
The Potemkin sailors mutiny
|
1905
|
June 14th
|
The Russo-Japanese war is ended with the treaty of Portsmouth |
1905
|
September 5th
|
|
The Octoberists form
|
1905
|
October
|
|
St petersburg paralysed by strikes
|
1905
|
October 14th
|
|
The Kadets are formed
|
1905
|
October 12th
|
|
October manifesto issued
|
1905
|
October 17th
|
|
Moscow soviet is formed
|
1905
|
November 21st
|
|
St Petersburg soviet orders a general strike
|
1905
|
December 6th
|
|
Moscow uprising is suppressed by force
|
1905
|
December 8th
|
Laws passed to allow rights to assembly and association |
1906
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March 4th
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