French Revolution: Events dates Flashcards
Poor Harvests
1781/2, 1785/6 and 1788/9
The Compte Rendu
February 1781
Assembly of Notables convene
22 February 1787
Assembly of Notables dismissed
25 May 1787
Louis rejects Parliaments
May 1788
Day of tiles
7 June 1788
Calling of estates General
8 August 1788
France officially bankrupt
16 August 1788
Louis allows double representation
December 1788
Cahiers d’dolences
January - April 1789
What is the third estate
January 1789
Estates general meets
May 1789
Revellion riots
27 April 1789
Declaration of the National Assembly
17 June 1789
Tennis court oath
20 June 1789
The royal session
23 June 1789
Louis allows voting by head
27 June 1789
Storming of the Bastille
14 July 1789
Formation of the Commune of Paris
July 1789
Night of patriotic delirium
4 August 1789
August Decrees
5-11 August 1789
DORMAC
26 August 1789
Women’s march to Versailles (October days)
5 October 1789
National Constituent Assembly period
1789-1791
Feudal distinctions abolished
March 1790
Confiscation of church land
August 1789
Civil constitution of the Clergy
12 July 1790
Clerical oath of Loyalty
17 November 1790
Flight to Varennes
20 June 1791
Champ de Mars Massacre
17 July 1791
Declaration of Pillnitz
August 1791
Brunswick Manifesto
July 1792
Storming of Tuileries
10 August 1792
September Massacres
2-6 September 1792
French Republic begins
September 1792
Louis executed
21 January 1793
Vendee rebellion
March 1793
Reign of Terror
1793-1794
Paris Bread Riot
25 February 1793
Law of Maximum
29 September 1793
Comittee of Public Safety
April 1793
Expulsion of Girondins
May 1793
Constitution of 1793
June 1793
Federalist revolt
June 1793
Destruction of Lyon
October 1793
Slavery abolished
4 February 1794
Law of suspects
17 September 1793
Decree on Revolutionary Government
10 October 1793
Danton, Desmoulins and 16 others executed
April 1794
Law of 22 Prairial
10 June 1794
Cult of Supreme Being
May-June 1794
Robespierre executed
28 July 1794 (2 days after impeachment)
Robespierrists executed
July 1794
Jacobins closed
November 1794
Catholicism restored
September 1794
Constitution of Year III
August 1795