Timeline Of Dates Flashcards
1778
France enters American War of Independence and the death of Rousseau and Voltaire.
1774
Louis becomes king after the death of his father and grandfather.
1781
Necker resigned as Controller General.
1783
Peace of Paris - Calonne becomes first minister.
1787
Assembly of Notables.
1788
8th August - Estates General convoked for 1789.
16th August - payments suspended from treasury.
October-December - second Assembly of Notables
27th December - doubling of Third Estate
February to June 1789
Elections to Estates General and in February Sieyès published ‘What is the Third Estate?’
May 1789
5th May - Estates General convene.
17th May - National Assembly proclaims national sovereignty.
20th May - Tennis Court Oath.
27t May - orders finally unite.
July 1789
14th July - Bastille falls.
July - ‘Great Fear’ in countryside.
August 1789
4th August - abolition of feudalism, Privileges and venality.
26th August - Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen and the August Decrees.
5-6th October 1789
‘October Days’ = women march to Versailles so Louis and Assembly move to Paris.
2nd November 1789
Church property nationalised.
12th December 1789
Assignation introduced.
13th February 1790
Monastic vows forbidden.
22nd May 1790
Foreign conquests renounced.
19th June 1790
Nobility abolished.
12th July 1790
Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
16th August 1790
Parlements abolished.
November 1790
27th - Oath of the Clergy.
November 1790 - Burke, ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’.
2nd March 1791
Guilds dissolved
13th April 1791
Pope condemns Civil Constitution
14th May 1791
Le Chapelier Law bans trade unions
20-21st June 1791
Flight to Varennes
16th July 1791
Louis XVI reinstated
17th July 1791
Champ de Mars massacre
14th August 1791
Slave rebellion in Saint-Domingue
27th August 1791
Declaration of Pilnitz recommended Louis’ full restoration.
September 1791
Louis listens to Marie Antoinette’s advice regarding foreign intervention.
14th September - Louis accepts constitution.
14th September 1791
Louis XVI accepts the Constitution
30th September 1791
Constituent Assembly dissolved
1st October 1791
Legislative Assembly convenes
19th December 1791
Louis XVI vetoes decrees against émigrés and non-juring priests
March 1792
Louis forced to dismiss the moderate Feuillant Ministry to appease enemies and accusations against the ‘Austrian Commitee’.
20th April 1792
France declares war