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
20th June 1792
Sans culottes invade the Tuileries Palace and humiliate the king
11th July 1792
Decree of the country in danger
25th July 1792
The Duke of Brunswick Manifesto
30th July 1792
Federal troops arrive in Paris
3rd August 1792
The radical Paris ‘sections’ demand that the king be dethroned
10th August 1792
The crowd invades the Tuileries and overthrows the monarchy
17th August 1792
The Extraordinary Tribunal is established
19th August 1792
Lafayette defects: Prussian troops cross the border into France
2nd September 1792
Prussians capture Verdun, the last fortress before Paris
2-6th September 1792
Panic in Paris – ‘September Massacres’ of prisoners
(1200 dead)
21st September 1792
The third parliament, the national convention, meets
22nd September 1792
The republic is proclaimed
3-26th September 1792
The King is Brought to trial, interrogated, and makes his defence
7th-18th January 1793
Condemnation of the king, passing of death sentence and vote against reprieve
21st January 1793
Execution of the King
1st February 1793
France declares war on Great Britain and the Dutch Republic
24th February 1793
Assembly decrees conscription of an army of 300,000 men
10th March 1793
Creation of the revolutionary Tribunal
11th march 1793
Rebellion in the Vendée region begins
21st March 1793
Creation of revolutionary committees
6th April 1793
Creation of Committee of Public Safety
6th April 1793
Creation of Committee of Public Safety
29th April 1793
Federalist rebellion in Marseille
4th May 1793
Convention decrees the law of maximum on bread prices
31st May 1793
Popular uprising in Paris against the Girondins
2nd June 1793
Popular pressure leads to the purge of Girondins from the convention
24th June 1793
The ‘Jacobin’ Constitution of 1793 is accepted by the Convention
10th July 1793
Danton quits the Committee of public Safety
13th July 1793
the murder of Marat
26th July 1793
The Economic Terror – the death penalty is introduced for hoarding
27th July 1793
Robespierre accepts membership of the Committee of Public Safety
5th September 1793
The National Convention bows to popular pressure to introduce government by Terror
17th September 1793
The Law of Suspects facilitates arrests on almost any pretext
29th September 1793
The Law of the Maximum is made general
10th October 1793
Declaration of ‘revolutionary government’
24-31st October 1793
Trial of the Girondins, culminating in their execution
4th December 1793
Formal decree of revolutionary government
4th February 1794
Successful rebellion in Saint-Domingue forces Convention to abolish slavery
13-24th March 1794
Arrest and execution of the left-wing radical Hérbertists
27th March 1794
Disbanding of revolutionary armies
5th April 1794
Trial and execution of Danton and Desmoulins
27-28th July 1794
Fall of Robespierre and close associates (9-10 thermidor, in the new dating)
March 1795
Trial of Jacobins such as Billaud-Varenne
1-2nd April 1795
The Rebellion of Germinal
20-23rd May 1795
The rebellion of Prairial
22nd August 1795
Constitution of 1795
5th October 1795
Rebellion of Vendémiaire
26th October 1795
The National Convention closes down
2nd November 1795
The Executive Directory is established