French Revolution Dates

Question 1

When did Louis XVI become king?

Answer 1

1774

Question 2

When was Turgot made controller general?

Answer 2

1774

Question 3

When were the six edicts? What were they?

Answer 3

1776 - aimed to abolish privilege
4 suppressed dues and offices
The 5th aimed to suppress guilds
The 6th abolished the corvee

Question 4

When were the six edicts forced through by lit de justice?

Answer 4

March 1776

Question 5

When did Turgot resign?

Answer 5

May 1776

Question 6

When was Necker appointed?

Answer 6

1777

Question 7

When did Necker release the budget statement ‘Compte Rendu au Roi’?

Answer 7

1781

Question 8

When was the Champs de Mars massacre?

Answer 8

17th July 1793

Question 9

When was the flight to Varennes?

Answer 9

20/21st June 1791

Question 10

When was the revolt in the Vendee?

Answer 10

11th March 1793

Question 11

When was the day of tiles?

Answer 11

7th June 1788

Question 12

When was France declared bankrupt?

Answer 12

1788

Question 13

When was the assembly of Notables dissolved?

Answer 13

1787

Question 14

When did Prussia declare war on France?

Answer 14

1792

Question 15

When was Louis XVI executed?

Answer 15

21st January 1793

Question 16

When was Church land nationalised?

Answer 16

1789

Question 17

When was the Civil constitution of the clergy approved?

Answer 17

1790

Question 18

When was Napoleon declared emperor by the senate?

Answer 18

1804

Question 19

When was the concordat?

Answer 19

1801

Question 20

When was Napoleon first abdicated?

Answer 20

1814

Question 21

When did he hundred days begin?

Answer 21

1815

Question 22

When was the Coup d’etat of floreal?

Answer 22

1798

Question 23

When was Calonne made controller general?

Answer 23

1783

Question 24

When did Necker resign?

Answer 24

1781

Question 25

When was the assembly of Notables?

Answer 25

February-May 1787

Question 26

When did Brienne try to enforce tax proposals through lit de justice?

Answer 26

July 1787

Question 27

When did the Paris parlements petition Louis for an estates general?

Answer 27

July 1787

Question 28

When were the Paris parlements banished to Troyes?

Answer 28

August-September 1787

Question 29

When was the first royal session held? what did it result in?

Answer 29

September 1787 Duc d’Orleans was exiled by lettres de cachet as well as two other members Laws approving more loans passed via lit de justice Louis promised to call and estates general by 1792

Question 30

When were the may edicts? what were they?

Answer 30

May 1788 New plenary court of nobles, officers and magistrates appointed by King for registration of law, with right to remonstrate Parlements legal work transferred to lower courts Reduce the number of judges in the parlements Forced through by lit de justice

Question 31

When was the revolt of the notables?

Answer 31

May-August 1788

Question 32

When did Brienne suspend all payments from the royal treasury?

Answer 32

July 1788

Question 33

When was Necker recalled? What did he do?

Answer 33

25 August 1788 - rescinded the may edicts - attempted temporary loans

Question 34

When did the Third estate draw up their Cahiers de doleances?

Answer 34

1789

Question 35

When did the Paris parlements declare that the estates general should have the same voting procedures?

Answer 35

September 1788

Question 36

When did Louis and Necker agree for the third estate to have double representation?

Answer 36

December 1788

Question 37

When was the first session of the estates general held?

Answer 37

5th May 1789

Question 38

When did the Third estate declare itself the National Assembly? How many votes?

Answer 38

17th June 1789 | 491 votes to 90

Question 39

When did the Clergy join the National assembly?

Answer 39

19th June 1789

Question 40

When was the Tennis court oath?

Answer 40

20th June 1789

Question 41

When did Louis XVI recognise the National assembly?

Answer 41

27th June 1789

Question 42

When was the second Royal session held? What did it decide?

Answer 42

23rd June 1789 Accepted a fairer land tax based on the value of the land Refused to use the name ‘National Assembly’ and insisted that the estates met separately At the end of the session members refused to leave as an act of defiance

Question 43

When was Necker dismissed for a second time?

Answer 43

11th July 1789

Question 44

When was the first breakdown of order in Paris? what happened?

Answer 44

12th-13th July 1789 Parisian electors met at the Hotel de Ville and set up a commune to take control of the city National guard of volunteers were established to protect and police Royal troops failed to take control of mobs seizing weapons

Question 45

When was the storming of Bastille?

Answer 45

14th July 1789

Question 46

When was the great fear?

Answer 46

17th July- 3rd August 1789

Question 47

When were feudal right abolished?

Answer 47

4th August 1789

Question 48

When was the declaration of rights of man and citizen?

Answer 48

26th August 1789

Question 49

When was the oath to the civil constitution of the clergy?

Answer 49

November 1790

Question 50

When was the consulate established and the consuls swore allegiance to the republic?

Answer 50

19th Brumaire (1799)

Question 51

When was Napoleon nearly assassinated?

Answer 51

In 1800

Question 52

When was the first plebiscite held under Napoleon? What did it achieve?

Answer 52

7th Feb 1800 Voted for the constitution 3011007 to 1562 Constitution already illegally in operation so only for show Eligible voters only accounted for 20% of votes recorded

Question 53

When was the second plebiscite held? What did it achieve?

Answer 53

4th August 1802 Gave Napoleon the right to name his successor Purged the tribunal Named a new constitution

Question 54

When was the plebiscite held that gave Napoleon the vote to become emperor

Answer 54

18th May 1804