dates section 2 Flashcards
Opening of the estates general
May 5th 1789
First estate and second estate said voting by order
May 6th 1789
Sieyes proposes the national assembly
June 10th 1789
Formation of the National Assembly
June 17th 1789
Tennis Court Oath
June 20th 1789
Seance Royale
June 23rd 1789
Louis recognises the National Assembly
June 27th 1789
Troops placed outside Paris and Versailles
June 26-27th 1789
Crowd of 4,000 storms prison on the left bank of the Seine, freeing mutinous soldiers
June 30th 1789
NA appoints committee to begin drafting a new constitution
July 6th 1789
NA petitions king to withdraw troops from Paris
July 8th 1789
Necker is dismissed
July 11th 1789
Paris insurrection- demonstrations, riots - bc of Necker and fear of royal coup
July 12th 1789
Formation of the National Guard
July 13th 1789
Storming of the Bastille
July 14th 1789
Lafayette = head of the National Guard
July 15th 1789
King withdrew troops from Paris
July 15-16th 1789
Necker is reappointed
July 16th 1789
King accepted NA and wore revolutionary cockade
July 17th 1789
First signs of the Great Fear
July 17th 1789
August Decrees - abolition of feudalism
August 4th 1789
Great fear
July 20th - August 6th 1789
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
August 26th 1789
NA vote to create a unicameral legislative assembly
September 10th 1789
NA give king suspensive veto
September 11th 1789
News reaches Paris that royal soldiers at Versailles stomped on rev cockades at party
October 4th 1789
March on Versailles
- lots of women
- force king to accept august decrees and declaration
- attack bodyguards
- invade palace
- (October days)
October 5th 1789
October days: Royal fam taken to Paris
-taken to Tuileries Palace
October 6th 1789
King agrees to withdraw his veto and accept the August Decrees
October 6th 1789
NA moves from Versailles to Paris following the King
October 9th 1789
NA declares Louis King of the French
October 9th 1789
NA nationalise church land
November 2nd 1789
NA reform provincial government
-83 new departments
December 14-16th 1789
NA begin sale of church land - assignats
December 19th 1789
First release of assignats
January 1790
Lifted legal and commercial restrictions on Jews
January 28th 1790
Burke condemns the French Revolution in house of commons
February 1790
Letters de cachet formally abolished
March 8th 1790
Gabelle tax is suspended
March 21st 1790
Local gov of Paris reorganised into 48 sections
May 21st 1790
Abolished taxation privileges of 1st and 2nd estates
September 1789
Monastic vows were declared not legally binding
29th October 1789
Full citizenship is granted to protestants
December 1789
Gov closes church monasteries and sell monastic wealth and property
February 13th 1790
NA declare abolition of noble ranks and titles
June 19th 1790
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
July 12th 1790
Fete de la Federation - celebrate fall of bastille
July 14th 1790
Parlements formally abolished
September 6th 1790
Counter-rev riots in Lyons
November 1790
NA decree that clergy have to swear oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
November 27th 1790
King accepts Civil Constitution of the Clergy
December 1790
‘Day of Daggers’ - group of 400 armed nobles invade Tuileries to protect king
February 28th 1791
NA suppress all guilds and trade monopolies
March 2nd 1791
Saint-Cloud incident
April 18th 1791
NA passes Robespierre’s self-denying ordinance
May 16th 1791
Le Chapelier Law - stop worker unions, association and strikes
June 14th 1791
Flight to Varennes
June 20th 1791
NA suspend the king
June 21st 1791
Leopald II (Austrian Emperor) issues Padua Circular calling on all European Monarchs to protect french royal fam
July 10th 1791
NA rules that king was abducted and restore his status/privileges if he accepts new constitution
July 16th 1791
Jacobin club protest at Champ de Mars
July 16th 1791
Champ de Mars massacre
July 17th 1791
NA ban radical newspapers, etc and reorganises the NG
July 18th 1791
Elections for Legislative assembly
August 29th to September 5th 1791
Louis speech to NA pledging fidelity to the nation and placing himself at head of the revolution
4th February 1790
300,000 people march to NA for petition to remove king from office
June 24th 1791
Mirabeau dead
April 2nd 1791
King formally accepts Constitution of 1791 and swears oath of allegiance to new state
September 14th 1791
NA meet for last time and dissolve
September 30th 1791
First meeting of the Legislative Assembly
October 1st 1791
LA orders all emigres to return on pain of death - take their land otherwise
November 9th 1791
King vetoes LA’s Nov 9th decree on emigres
November 11th 1791
Petion elected as mayor of paris
November 16th 1791
LA orders arrest of all non-juring priests
November 29th 1791
King vetoes LA order for arrest of non-juring priests
December 19th 1791
LA decree that property of emigres now belongs to nation
February 9th 1792
Prussia and Austria alliance to war against france
February 1792
King appoints Girondin Ministry
March 10th 1792
King asked LA to declare war on Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, they do
April 20th 1792
LA deport refractory priests
May 27th 1792
LA disband kings guard
May 29th 1792
LA set up federe camp of 20,000 volunteer soldiers
June 8th 1792
Lafayette asks LA to outlaw jacobin clubs, refused
June 18th 1792
Journee: Crowd invades Tuileries demanding that king withdraws his vetoes
-forced to wear red liberty cap
June 20th 1792
La Patrie en Danger - LA no longer needed kings sanction
July 11th 1792
Brunswick Manifesto
- threaten paris if king is harmed
July 25th 1792
Sans-culotte overthrew paris municipal authority and set up revolutionary commune
August 9th 1792
Journee: Tuileries palace invaded by parisians and republican soldiers
- killed guards
- king hides w/ LA
- king arrested and imprisoned
- LA recognised commune
- elections for new national convention
August 10th 1792
Danton issues arrest warrant for Lafayette and dismisses him as commander of NG
-Lafayette tries to leave and defect but is captured by Austrians
August 14th 1792
Robespierres speech to LA that france should become a republic
July 29th 1792
Federes converge on capital
July 30th 1792
Jacobin and Cordelier club demand removal of king
August 3rd 1792
Royalist riots in the Vendee, Brittany and Dauphine
August 22nd 1792
All priests have to take oath of loyalty to gov or face deportation
August 26th 1792
Danton ordered house searches for weapons to be used to protect paris and 3000 people were arrested
August 30th 1792
Verdun, last fortress blocking capital, under siege
September 1st 1792
September Massacres
September 2nd-6th 1792
Danton issued levee enforcing conscription on pain of death
September 2nd 1792
Marie Therese - MA lady in waiting killed violently
September 3rd 1792
LA dissolved and replaced by National Convention
September 20th 1792
