AoS2 Unit 3 Flashcards
13th February 1790
Abolition of religious orders apart from teaching and medical services
26th February 1790
Rationalisation of France into 83 administrative departments
21st May 1790
Creation of the municipal ‘sections’ of Paris
19th June 1790
Abolition of nobility and all other honorific distinctions
12th July 1790
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is decreed
14th July 1790
Lafayette’s Festival of Federation
August 1790
Reorganisation of judiciary; abolition of parlements
4th-6th September 1790
National Assembly abolishes law courts of old regime
27th November 1790
National Assembly demands that priests swear oath of loyalty to CCC
January 1791
Checking of oath of the Clergy
March 1791
Abolition of guilds and corporations
13th April 1791
The Pope condemns the CCC
18th April 1791
The crowd violently prevents the royal family from leaving Paris for Saint-Cloud
14th June 1791
The Le Chapelier law restricts working-class organisation, including strikes
20-21st June 1791
The flight of the royal family to Varennes
25th June 1791
Royal family returns to Paris, but the assembly only suspends the king
16th July 1791
The king is reinstated
17th July 1791
Petition, demonstration, and massacre on the Champ de Mars
25th July 1791
European nations form a coalition against revolutionary France
14th August 1791
Rebellion of slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue
27th August 1791
Declaration of Pill Nitz
13th-14th September 1791
The King approves and Constitution (1791) and swears loyalty to the nation
1st October 1791
Meeting of the Second parliament, the Legislative Assembly
20th October 1791
Brissot first suggests revolutionary war
November 1791
National Assembly orders emigrated nobles to return or lose their property
25th November 1791
National Assembly decrees Committees of Surveillance
29th November 1791
National Assembly renews order to refractory priests to take the oath of loyalty
25th January 1792
France makes an ultimatum to Austria
20th April 1792
France declares war on Austria
25th April 1792
First use of the guillotine
27th May 1792
National Assembly passes new law against refractory priests
13th June 1792
The Brissotin ministry is dismissed; Prussia declares war on France