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