Timeline Flashcards
Louis XVI Capet made monarch
1774
Six Edicts
1776
Compte Rendu
1781
Assembly of Notables
1787
May Edicts
1788
June Day of Tiles
1788
France declares Bankrupt
1788
Sieyes “What is the 3rd Estate?”
1789
Opening of Estates-General
May 1789
3rd Estate declares itself National Assembly
Jun 1789
Tennis Court Oath
20 Jun 1789
Storming of Bastille
14 Jul 1789
Great Fear
1789
August Decrees on Feudalism
1789
Declaration of Rights of Man
Aug 1789
Women’s March to Versailles
Oct 1789
Civil Constitution of Clergy
Jul 1790
Oath of Civil Constitution of Clergy
Nov 1790
Flight To Varennes
20/21 Jun 1791
Le Chapelier Law
1791
Self-Denying Decree
1791
King Louis suspended from Office
Jul 1791
Petition & Champ de Mars Massacre
16/17 Jul 1791
Declaration of Pillnitz
Aug 1791
Legislative Assembly meets
1 Oct 1791
Decrees against Emigres & Refractory Priests
Nov 1791
Dismissal of Girondin Ministers
Jun 1792
Sans-Culottes 1st Journee to Tuileries
20 Jun 1792
Declaration La Patrie En Danger
Jul 1792
Feast of Federes
Jul 1792
Publication of Brunswick Manifesto
25 Jul 1792
Arrival of Brunswick Manifesto in Paris
1 Aug 1792
Sans-Culottes 2nd Journee to Tuileries
10 Aug 1792
King Louis sent to Temple Prison & Suspended
10Aug 1792
September Massacres in Paris Prisons
1792
Meeting of National Convention
20 Sept 1792
Victory @ Valmy
20 Sept 1792
Monarchy Abolished & France becomes Republic
Sept 1792
King Louis’ Trial & Execution
Jan 1793
Creation of Revolutionary Tribunal
1793
Vendean Revolt
1793
Formation of CPS & Representants-en-mission
Apr 1793
First Laws of Maximum
May 1793
Expulsion of Girondins & Federalist Revolt
Jun 1793
Assassination of Marat
Jul 1793
Levee en Masse
Aug 1793
Sans-Culottes journey on National Convention
Dept 1793
Law of Suspects!
Sept 1793
Law of GENERAL Maximum
Sept 1793
Declaration of Revolutionary Govn, Execution of Marie-Antoinette & Girondin Ministers
Oct 1793
Constitution of the Terror
Dec 1793
Arrest/Execution of Hebertists
Mar 1794
Arrest/Execution of Dantonists
Mar-Apr 1794
Festival of Supreme Being
Jun 1794
Law of 22 Prairial
Jun 1794
Overthrow of Robespierre
Jul 1794
Closure of Jacobin Clubs
Nov 1794
Abolition of General Maximum
Dec 1794
Journee of Germinal in Paris
Apr 1795
White Terror
Apr-May 1795
Journee of Prairial & Invasion of National Convention
May 1795
Constitution of Year III
1795
Royalist Rising of Vendemiaire in Paris
Oct 1795
Installation of Directory
Nov 1795
Bonaparte made Commander of Army of Italy
1796
Treaty of Campo Formio
1797
Napoleon’s Egypt Campaign
1798
War of Second Coalition
1799
Coup of Brumaire
Nov 1799
War of First Coalition: SHAPPPE
Feb 1793
Constitution of Year VIII
1799
Creation of Bank of France
1800
Dagger Conspiracy
1800
Concordat w/ Pope
1801
Peace of Amiens
1802
Constitution of Year X
1802
Execution of duc d’Enghien
1804
Napoleon crowned Emperor
Dec 1804
Third Coalition
1805
Battle of Trafalgar
1805
Battle of Austerlitz
1805
Tilsit Meeting
1807
Peninsular War
1808
Austrian Campaign
1809
Marriage of Napoleon & Marie-Louise
1810
Russian Campaign
1812
Malet Failed Conspiracy
1812
War of Fourth Coalition
1813
Treaty of Chaumont
1814
Frankfurt Proposals
1813
Napoleon Abdicates
1814
First Treaty of Paris
1814
Napoleon escapes from Elba & his 100 Days
1815
Battle of Waterloo
1815
Napoleon abdicates again & leaves Louis XVIII as King of France
Jun 1815