All Dates Flashcards
May 1774
Louis XVI King of France
1775 (war)
American Civil War began
March 1776
Turgots six edicts registered by lit de justice
May 1776
Turbot forced to resign
1777
Necker appointed as Director general, of finances
1781 (book)
Compte rendu published by necker
1781
Necker resigns
1783
Calonne becomes controller general
September 1783
Treaty of Paris
Over 3.3 billion litres in debt
1786
Calonne develops reforms
Feb-March 1787
Assembly of notables
April 1787
Calonne dismissed Brienne appointed
July 1787
Louis clash with Paris parlment rolling petition for estates general
August 1787
Paris parlement banished to Troyes
September 1787
Parlement returned
November 1787
Louis promised estates general by 1792
1788
French deficit of 126 million litres
May 1788
Fundamental laws of the kingdom issued
May 1788
May edicts issued
May-august 1788
Revolt of the nobles
June 1788
Day of tiles
16th August 1788
France declared bankrupt
August 1788
Estates general meeting brought forward to May 1789
January 1789
Publication of ‘what is the third estate’ Abbé Sieyes
March-April 1789
Elections to the estates general
April 1789
Reveillon riots
5th may 1789
Opening of the estates general
17th June 1789
National Assembly
20th June 1789
Tennis court oath
23rd June 1789
Royal session (seance royale)
14th July 1789
Storming of the bastille
July-August 1789
Great fear
4th-11th August
August Decrees
26th August
DOROMAC
September 1789
King given suspensory veto
5th-6th October 1789
October days
October 1789
Louis given title of ‘king of the French’
2nd November 1789
Church land nationalised
November 1789
Creation of departments
November 1789
Parlements suspended
December 1789
Assignats issued
December 1789
Citizenship granted to Protestants
Active and passive citizens
January 1790
Jacobin club formed
February-June 1790
Administrative reforms
April 1790
Cordeliers club
12th July 1790
Civil constitution of the clergy
27th November 1790
Oath of loyalty to the civil constitution of the clergy
December 1790
Louis XVI accepted the civil constitution of the clergy
1791
Abolition of corporate bodies
1791
New taxation systems
June 1791
Le Chapelier Law introduced
20th/21st June 1791
Royal family’s flight to Varennes
16th July 1791
Louis suspended from office
17th July 1791
Champ de Mars demonstration + massacre
27th July 1791
Declaration of Pillnitz
September 1791
Constitution of 1791
1st October 1791
Legislative assembly opened
9th November 1791
Decrees against emigrees
29th November 1791
Decree against refractory priests
20th April 1791
Declaration of war
13th April 1792
Dismissed of Girodin ministers
20th June 1792
Sans-Culottes journée to Tuileries
11th July 1792
La Patrie en Dangern
25th July 1792
Brunswick manifesto
10th August 1792
Sans-Culottes Journee to Tuileries- suspension of the king
19th August 1792
Lafayette defected to Austria
2nd September 1792
September massacres begin
20th September 1792
Opening of National Convention
21st/22nd September
Declaration of the Republic
October 1792
Creation of CGS
21st January 1793
Louis trial and execution
Feb-March 1793
Disruption in Paris
March 1793
Creation of revolutionary tribunal, representative en mission, watch committees
April 1793
Formation of the CPS
May 1793
First law of maximum
2nd June 1793
Expulsion of Girodins
June 1793
Start of federalist revolt
24th June 1793