French Rev Last Minute Flashcards
Turgot’s Six Edicts
1776
Comte Rendu
1781
Calonne Reform Package
1786
King lectures PP to endorse more loans
1785
Assembly of Notables
1787
Parelement banished to Troyes
August 1787
Parlement agrees to loan in return for EG
End of 1787
Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom
May 1788
May Edict’s
1788
Reduced don gratuit
1788
Day of Tiles
June 17888
Bankruptcy declared
August 1788
PP declares 1614 procedure
Sep 1788
Double representation
Dec 17888
Poor harvests during Origin
1785-89
Debt in 1783
3.3 million livres
Expenditure on debt x2 stats
1780 = 43%, 1783 = 50%
Aid sent by 1777
5 million livres sent
Reveillon riots
April 1789
What is the Third Estate?
1789
Wages on bread
1789 = 88%
Vote to be called National Assembly
17th June 1789
Tennis Court Oath
20th June 1789
Abolition of privilege
4th August 1789
DOROMAC published
16th August
The Great Fear
17th July - 3rd August
Troops moved into Paris by Louis
4600 more on 26th June
Voting by head + National Assembly accepted
27th June
King appears at Hotel de Ville with cockade
17th July
Number of troops in the capital July
4th July = 30,000
Dismissal of Necker
11th July
October Days
5th/6th October 1789 - forced to accept AD + DOROMAC
Swordsmiths raided + customs posts
12th/13th July -> 40/54 customs post destroyed
8000 descend on Bastille
14th July 1789
Provinces abolished
Nov 1789
One-off patriotic contribution
June 1789
Assignats introduced
Dec 1789
Le Chapelier Law
June. 1791
active + passive created
Dec 1789
Church land nationalised
Nov 1789
Sale of monastic land
Feb 1790
CCC
12th July 1790
Oath of loyalty + stat
Nov 1790 7/160 bishops and 55% of clergy agreed
Refractory priests declared counter-revolutionary
Nov 1791
King of the French
October 1789
King accepts Constitution
Sep 1791
Disbanding of King’s guard for celebrating loss
May 1792
Champ de Mars Massacre
17th July 1791
Armoire de fer
Nov 1792
Flight to Varennes
20th June 1791
Louis’ temporary suspension
16th July 1791
Robespierre’s Repubic spech
29th July 1792
CGS created
Oct 1792
House searches for weapons
30th Aug 1792
Le Patrie en danger
July 1792
Brunswick Manifeto
July 1792
Declaration of Pillnitz
August 1791
Lafayette defects
August 1792
Dumouriez defects
April 1793
1st Journee
20th June after Army of North in retreat
2nd Journee
10th August
First royalist rising in Vendee
August 1792
Execution of King
21st Jan 1793
Archbishop resigns
Nov 1793
Dechristianisation becomes policy
Oct 1793
Festival of Supreme Being
June 1794
Marat murdered
July 1793
Expulsion of Girondins
June 1793
Expulsion of Hebertists and Girondins
March 1794
Call for rise against corrupt deputies
May 1793
Summary Execution Decree
19th March 1793
Law of General Maximum
Sep 1793
March on Convention for bread prices
5th sep 1793
22 Prairial
June 1794
CPS created
March 1793
Law of Suspects + stats before and after
Sep 1793 - 250 from March, 500,000 until Dec
14 Frimaire
December 1793
Girondins executed
21 Girondins in 36 minutes on 30th October
Maximum Wage Set
23rd Jul 1794
Marie Antoinette executed
16th October 1793
Destruction of Vendee declared
August 1793 - 100,000 troops sent
Deaths in Vendee
7873 guillotined
Levee for 300,000
Feb 1793
Revolutionary Army created
March 1793
Natural Frontiers
End of 1793
British blockade
July 1793
Siege of Convention
30th May -2nd June - -90,000 SCs
Attacks on Girondin printing presses
Feb 1793
22 Prairial repealed
Aug 1794
Abolition of General Maximum
Dec 1794
Law of Suspects repealed
Oct 1795
Closure of Jacobin club
Nov 1794
Powers of Paris Commune reduced
July 1794
Church and state separated
Sep 1794
Robespierre’s final appearance
26th July 1794
Robespierre arrested
28th July 1794
Germinal
April 1795
Rising of Prairial
May 1795
Vendemiare
October 1795
Weights and measures standardised
1795
Taxation reform by Ramel
1796
Verona Declaration
June 1795
Babeuf Plot
May 1796
Brottier Plot
Jan 1797
Armistice of Cherasco
April 1796
Nelson destroys fleet at Aboukir Bay
August 1798
Siege of Acre
May 1799 abandoned
Siege of Jaffa
March 1799
Invasion of Egypt
May 1798
Coup de Brumaire
Nov 1799
Plebiscite 1800
25% to 46% turnout -> 99% support
Fructidor + result
September 1797 - 177 royalist deputies removed
Floreal + stat
May 1798 = 127 Jacobin deputies removed
Coup de Prairial
June 1799
Venice occupied by Napoleon
May 1797
Battle of odd + consequences
May 1796 - Pope pays indemnity + Milan looted
Treaty of Campo Formio
October 1797
Batavian Republic created
1795
Cisalpine republic created
1797
Code on criminal procedure
1808
Penal code
1810
Civil code
1804
Court practice standardised
1806
Commercial code
1807
Prefects created
1800
Purge of judges
1807
Forced to allow licensed trad with Britain
1810
Import of sugar prohibited
1813
Society for Encouragement of industry
1801
Bank of France
1800
Bank branches
1808
Decline in harvests during Napoleon
1809 onwards
Central taxation bureau
1807
Battle of Marengo
1800 success
Purge of Senate, Tribunate + legislative body
1802
Consul for life + plebiscite
1802 + 50% turnout
Increasing use of senatus consultum
1801
Tribunate abolished
1810
Legislative Body abolished
1813
Emperor
December 1804
Liberals expelled
1803
Jacobins deported
129 in 1801
Napoleon + Chouan
6000 imprisoned and 750 shot
Execution of Bourbon prince
1804
Attempt on Napoleon’s life
24th December 1800
Jacobin dagger conspiracy
1800
Churches open every day
Dec 1799
Sunday day of ret
1800
Concordat of Fontainebleau
1813
Annexation of Papal States
1809
Gregorian Calendar
1806
Concordat
1801
Lycees and ecole populaire created + lycee stat
1802 - 1/3 to military sons
Imperial Univeristy
1808
1/3 of staff from clergy
1812
Legion of honour
1802
Knight of the Empire + stat
1808 - 59% to military men
Paris newspapers
1800 = 70 to 13
One departmental newspaper
1810
Censorship board create
1810
Publishing houses
1808 = 200 to 60
Declaration of war on Austria
April 1792
Austria + Prussia alliance
Feb 1792
Fall of Longwy + Verdun
August 1792
Battle of Wattignies
Success - end of 1793
Battle of Fleurus
June 1794
Peace of Basel
1795 - Prussia + Spain
Russian withdrawal
1799
Battle of Hohenlinden
1800 - success against Austria
Treaty of Luneville
1801 with Austria
Peace of Amiens
1802
Britain declares war again
1803
Battle of Ulm
1805 - enters Vienna
Battle of Austerlitz
1805 - Russians retreat and Austra withdraw
Battle of Trafalgar
1806
Berlin Decree
1806
Confederation of Rhine
1806 - Prussians join
Battle of Jena
1806 - enter Berlin
Battle of Eylau
1807 - Russian withdrawal
Peace of Tilst
1807
Orders of Council
1807
Milan Decree
1807
Battle of Eckmuhl
1809 - enter Vienna
Tsar breaks blockade
1810
Tsar allies with Sweden
1812
Battle of Leipzig
1813
Treaty of Chaumont
1814
Treaty of Fontainbleau
1814
1st Coalition
1793
2nd Coalition
1799
3rd Coalition
1805
4th Coalition
1813
Departments and people during Empire
1810 = 130 departments and 44 million people
Land lost to donations stat
In Poland = 25% lost to donations
Silk industry in Empire fact
Silk industry in Piedmont declined as had to be sent to France
Louis XVIII invited to France
April 1814
Conditions of first peace
No indemnity, keep loot, border of 1792
2nd peace conditions
700 million franc indemnity, occupation for 5 years, borders do 1790, return loot
Treaty of Chaumont
1814
Treaty of Fontainbleau
1814
Austria declare war joined by Prussia, Russia and Sweden
1813
Napoleon declared outlaw
13th March 1815
Paris army defects
19th March 1815
Napoleon surrenders to British
July 1815
Waterloo
June 1815
Invasion of Russia
June 1812
Russia withdraw from continental system
1810
Malet conspiracy
End of 1812
Austria re-enters war
1809 - invades Bavaria
Battle of Eckmuhl
Austrian retreat 1809
Battle of Essling
Napoleon retreats 1809
Treaty of Schonbrunn
October 1809
Forced abdication of Spanish monarchs
March 1808 - 100,000 French soldiers
Battle of Bailen
1808 - beaten by Spanish rebel army
Franco-Spanish force sent to control Portugal
1807 - took Lisbon and royal family fled
Battle of Vimiero
1808 - Napoleon beaten by British/Spanish force
Wellesley enters Madrid
1813
Serfdom abolished in duchy of Warsaw
1807
Peasant risings in Spain and cause
1808 - seizure of Pope
After 1808 - enlightened ideas
Supply of soldiers more important than social reform
Backlash to police control
Northern Germany and Southern Italy
Treaty of Luneville
1801
Battle of Trafalgar
1805 - Franco-Spanish fleet destroyed
Occupation of Rome
1808
