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10 May, 1774

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Louis XVI becomes King of France

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1776

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France committees financial and military aid to the American War of Independence, beginning the decline of France economically

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19 February, 1781

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Director-General Of Finance Jacques Necker presents his financial report to King Louis XVI.

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19 May 1781

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Necker resigns from his position as Finance Minister.

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25 May 1781

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Joel de Fleury is appointed Minister of Finance

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July 1782

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The King imposes a third additional tax for the period 1783-1786

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3 September, 1783

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France signs the Treaty of Versailles, ending the conflict with Britain over the American colonies. France is left with a high accumulated debt.

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3 November, 1783

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Calonne is appointed Minister of Finance

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August 1785

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The scandal of the Diamond-Necklace affair tarnishes Marie Antoinette’s reputation and brings into question the concept of Royal expenditure.

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1785

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Necker publishes his ‘Compt Rendu’, in which he fabricates the nature of France’s financial state in oder to prevent any public knowledge.

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22 Feb, 1787

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The King convenes the Assembly of Notables to discuss Financial Reform

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8 April, 1787

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Calonne is dismissed and Brienne is appointed to the position

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25 May 1787

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The King closes the Assembly of Notables

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August, 1787

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The law courts (parliaments) of Paris and Bordeaux rebel against the King’s authority and are exiled.

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19 November 1787

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The King exerts authority upon the law courts in the ‘royal session’

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3 May, 1788

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The Paris parlement states that theKing has a duty to submit new laws to the parliaments and that new taxes can only be imposed by agreement with the nation, as represented by the Estates-General.

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8 May 1788

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The King tries to disempower the parliaments by redefining their role and powers

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June-July, 1788

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The first phase of the revolution is often referred to as the ‘aristocratic’ or noble revolt. It refers to the resistance of the nobles in the Assembly of Notables and the parlements.

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8 August, 1788

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The king called the meeting of the Estates-General for May 1789

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16 August, 1788

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The royal treasury suspends payments, the virtual equivalent of bankruptcy.

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24 August, 1788

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Brienne resigns, and Necker is recalled.

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25 September, 1788

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The King reopens the Parliaments. The Paris Parliament demands that the estate general meet and vote by order.

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October-December 1788

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The Assembly of Notables 2 to discuss the organisation of the Estates-General

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27 December, 1788

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Necker doubles the number of deputies for the third estate but refuses voting by head

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24 January 1789

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Formal call for the estates general

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February 1789

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Publication of the Abbes Sieyès ‘What is the Third Estate?’

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February – May 1789

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The election of deputies to the estates-general at versailles. Drafting of the Books of Grievances.

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27-28 April 1789

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Crowds attack and destroy Révellion factory in the Révellion riots, after misleadingly thinking that the owner of the factory was stating that wages should be lowered.

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5 May, 1789

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Opening of the Estates General. The King maintains traditional honorific distinctions between orders.

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6 May, 1789

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Controversy over voting by order or by head. The Third Estate demands voting by head.

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20-22 May, 1789

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The Clergy and Nobility accept the principle of equality in taxation

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13 June, 1789

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Some Parish priests join the Third Estate

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17 June, 1789

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The Second stage of the revolution - bourgeois revolt - referring to that deputies of the Third Estate now stepped forward and claimed a new constitutional role for themselves. The Third estate announces it virtually is the nation and declares itself a national assembly. `

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20 June, 1789

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The Third Estate is locked from the chamber, so they retreat to a Tennis Court where they swear the Tennis Court Oath, vowing not to disband until a constitution is created.

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23 June, 1789

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The National Assembly defies the royal order to return to discussion by orer

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25 June, 1789

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A deputation of nobles joins the Third Estate

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27 June, 1789

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The three orders (1,2 and 3 estate) unite.

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38
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30 June, 1789

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The King orders troops to Paris

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39
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2-10 July, 1789

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The King refuses to withdraw his ordered troops despite protests.

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11-13 July, 1789

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Agitation grows in Paris, and the King dismisses Necker. The Third Stage of the revolution is often called the revolt of the Urban Classes - Desmoulins exhorts the people to arm themselves.

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14 July, 1789

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The people capture and attack the Bastille in order to attempt to gain the weapons inside - however, the chaos ensued almost got the King and Queen killed when the guards opened fire.

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16 July, 1789

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The king capitulates - Necker is recalled and the troops are withdrawn.

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22 July, 1789

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The crowd brutally murders royal officials Foulon and Berthier

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Late July, 1789

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The PEASANT REVOLT - the gradual escalation of rumour and fear in country areas - leads to rural rebellions (The ‘Great Fear’

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4-11 August, 1789

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The Night of Patriotic Delirium and the August Decrees -The National Assembly initially abolished feudalism outright, then qualifies for reform

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26 August, 1789

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DORMAC -Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen- a declaration that proposed that human beings were ‘naturally born’ with certain rights. Based on Montesquieu’s Social Contract idea.

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September, 1789

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The Assembly votes to give the King a suspensive veto rather than an absolute veto and not to have a two house parliament

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5-6 October, 1789

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The October Days - The King, the royal Family and then the Assembly move to paris. The King is pressured to move to Paris following the Women’s March to Versailles in response to the rising bread prices and the wage issues.

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27 November, 1789

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Nationalisation of Church property - the Church’s power is diminished as their property becomes public as opposed to private.

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13 February, 1790

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Abolition of religious orders apart from teaching and medical services

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26 February, 1790

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Rationalisation of France into 83 administrative departments

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21 May, 1790

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Creation of the ‘municipal’ sections of Paris

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19 June, 1790

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The Abolition of nobility and all other honorific distinctions

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12 July, 1790

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The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is decreed.

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14 July, 1790

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Lafayette’s Festival of Federation

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August, 1790

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Reorganisation of the judiciary, abolishment of parlements

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4-6 September, 1790

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Assembly assumes control of national treasury and abolishes law courts of old regime

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27 November, 1790

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Assembly demands that priests swear oath of loyalty to Civil Constitution of the Clergy

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18 April, 1791

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The crowd violently prevents the royal family from leaving Paris for Saint-Cloud

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20-21 June, 1791

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The flight of the royal family to Varennes

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25 June, 1791

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The royal family returns to paris, however the King is suspended

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16 July, 1791

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The King is reinstated.

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17 July, 1791

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The Champ de Mars Massacre -people signing a petition not to reinstate the King

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13-14 September, 1791

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The King approves the Constitution (1791) and swears loyalty to the nation. The first Parliament, the National Constituent Assembly, is dissolved

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1 October, 1791

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The meeting of the new legislative assembly

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20 October 1791

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Brissot first suggests revolutionary war

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November 1791

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The Assembly orders emigrated nobles to return of lose their property

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25 November, 1791

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The Assembly decrees the Committees of Surveillance

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29 November, 1791

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The Assembly orders refractory priests to take the oath of loyalty

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20 April, 1792

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France declares war on Austria.

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13 June, 1792

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The Brissotin ministry is dismissed. Prussia declares war on France. Later, Louis XVI sides with the Prussians and is declared an enemy of the revolution.

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20 June, 1792

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The sans-culottes invade the Tuileries Palace and humiliate the King

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10 August, 1792

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The crowd invades the Tuileries Palace and overthrows the monarchy

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19 August, 1792

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Lafayette defects. Prussians cross the border into France

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2-6 September, 1792

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Panic in Paris - The September massacres - Prisoners massacred by guillotine in response to the panic.

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21 September, 1792

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The Third Parliament, the National Convention, meets.

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3-26 December, 1792

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Louis is brought to trial

78
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7-18 January, 1793

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Condemnation of the King, passing of the death sentence and vote against reprieve.

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21 January, 1793

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King Louis XVI is executed

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1 February, 1793

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France declares war on Great Britain and the Dutch Republic

81
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24 February, 1793

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Assembly declares conscription of 300000 men for an army

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25-27 February, 1793

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Food shortages and food riots in Paris

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10 March, 1793

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Creation of the Revolutionary tribunal

84
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11 March, 1793

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Rebellion in the Vendee region beginsq

85
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6 April, 1793

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Creation of the Committee of Public Safety

86
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13-24 April, 1793

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Unsuccessful attempt by the Girondins to try Marat

87
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29 April, 1793

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Federalist rebellion in Marseille

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4 May, 1793

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Convention decrees the Maximum (law of maximum) on food prices

89
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31 May, 1793

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Popular uprising against the Girondins

90
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2 June, 1793

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The people pressure to purge the Girondins from the Convention

91
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24 June, 1793

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The ‘Jacobin’ Constitution of 1793 is accepted by the Convention

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27 July, 1793

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Robespierre joins the Committee of Public Safety

93
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5 September 1793

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The Convention introduces government by Terror

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17 September, 1793

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The Law of Suspects facilitates arrest on almost any pretext

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29 September, 1793

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The Maximum is made general

96
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24-31 October, 1793

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The Girondins trialled and executed

97
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4 December, 1793

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The Formal decree of revolutionary government

98
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4 February, 1794

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Slavery abolished

99
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5 April, 1794

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Trial and execution of Danton and Desmoulins

100
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5 July, 1794

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The introduction of wage controls in Paris

101
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27-28 July, 1794

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The fall of Robespierre

102
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22 August, 1795

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The Constitution of 1795

103
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26 October, 1795

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The Convention closes down

104
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2 November, 1795

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The directory is established.

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