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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
Formal call for the estates general
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February 1789
Publication of the Abbes Sieyès 'What is the Third Estate?'
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February -- May 1789
The election of deputies to the estates-general at versailles. Drafting of the Books of Grievances.
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27-28 April 1789
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
Opening of the Estates General. The King maintains traditional honorific distinctions between orders.
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6 May, 1789
Controversy over voting by order or by head. The Third Estate demands voting by head.
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20-22 May, 1789
The Clergy and Nobility accept the principle of equality in taxation
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13 June, 1789
Some Parish priests join the Third Estate
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17 June, 1789
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
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
The National Assembly defies the royal order to return to discussion by orer
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25 June, 1789
A deputation of nobles joins the Third Estate
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27 June, 1789
The three orders (1,2 and 3 estate) unite.
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30 June, 1789
The King orders troops to Paris
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2-10 July, 1789
The King refuses to withdraw his ordered troops despite protests.
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11-13 July, 1789
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
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
The king capitulates - Necker is recalled and the troops are withdrawn.
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22 July, 1789
The crowd brutally murders royal officials Foulon and Berthier
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Late July, 1789
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
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
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
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
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
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
Abolition of religious orders apart from teaching and medical services
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26 February, 1790
Rationalisation of France into 83 administrative departments
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21 May, 1790
Creation of the 'municipal' sections of Paris
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19 June, 1790
The Abolition of nobility and all other honorific distinctions
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12 July, 1790
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is decreed.
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14 July, 1790
Lafayette's Festival of Federation
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August, 1790
Reorganisation of the judiciary, abolishment of parlements
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4-6 September, 1790
Assembly assumes control of national treasury and abolishes law courts of old regime
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27 November, 1790
Assembly demands that priests swear oath of loyalty to Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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18 April, 1791
The crowd violently prevents the royal family from leaving Paris for Saint-Cloud
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20-21 June, 1791
The flight of the royal family to Varennes
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25 June, 1791
The royal family returns to paris, however the King is suspended
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16 July, 1791
The King is reinstated.
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17 July, 1791
The Champ de Mars Massacre -people signing a petition not to reinstate the King
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13-14 September, 1791
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
The meeting of the new legislative assembly
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20 October 1791
Brissot first suggests revolutionary war
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November 1791
The Assembly orders emigrated nobles to return of lose their property
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25 November, 1791
The Assembly decrees the Committees of Surveillance
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29 November, 1791
The Assembly orders refractory priests to take the oath of loyalty
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20 April, 1792
France declares war on Austria.
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13 June, 1792
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
The sans-culottes invade the Tuileries Palace and humiliate the King
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10 August, 1792
The crowd invades the Tuileries Palace and overthrows the monarchy
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19 August, 1792
Lafayette defects. Prussians cross the border into France
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2-6 September, 1792
Panic in Paris - The September massacres - Prisoners massacred by guillotine in response to the panic.
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21 September, 1792
The Third Parliament, the National Convention, meets.
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3-26 December, 1792
Louis is brought to trial
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7-18 January, 1793
Condemnation of the King, passing of the death sentence and vote against reprieve.
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21 January, 1793
King Louis XVI is executed
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1 February, 1793
France declares war on Great Britain and the Dutch Republic
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24 February, 1793
Assembly declares conscription of 300000 men for an army
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25-27 February, 1793
Food shortages and food riots in Paris
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10 March, 1793
Creation of the Revolutionary tribunal
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11 March, 1793
Rebellion in the Vendee region beginsq
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6 April, 1793
Creation of the Committee of Public Safety
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13-24 April, 1793
Unsuccessful attempt by the Girondins to try Marat
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29 April, 1793
Federalist rebellion in Marseille
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4 May, 1793
Convention decrees the Maximum (law of maximum) on food prices
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31 May, 1793
Popular uprising against the Girondins
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2 June, 1793
The people pressure to purge the Girondins from the Convention
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24 June, 1793
The 'Jacobin' Constitution of 1793 is accepted by the Convention
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27 July, 1793
Robespierre joins the Committee of Public Safety
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5 September 1793
The Convention introduces government by Terror
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17 September, 1793
The Law of Suspects facilitates arrest on almost any pretext
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29 September, 1793
The Maximum is made general
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24-31 October, 1793
The Girondins trialled and executed
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4 December, 1793
The Formal decree of revolutionary government
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4 February, 1794
Slavery abolished
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5 April, 1794
Trial and execution of Danton and Desmoulins
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5 July, 1794
The introduction of wage controls in Paris
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27-28 July, 1794
The fall of Robespierre
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22 August, 1795
The Constitution of 1795
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26 October, 1795
The Convention closes down
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2 November, 1795
The directory is established.

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