Unit 3 AOS 1: Causes of the French Revolution Timeline Flashcards
When was the Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu published (separation of powers)?
1748
When was the Encyclopédie first published?
1751
When was the social contract by Rousseau published?
1762
When was the Treatise on Toleration published by Voltaire?
1763
When did King Louis XVI accession?
10 May 1774
When did marie antoinette marry King Louis XVI?
1770
When was the American Revolution (American War of Independence)?
19 April 1775 - 3 September 1783
When was the Necker appointed Director of Royal Treasury?
22 October 1776
When was the 7 years war?
17 May 1756 – 15 February 1763
When did France join the American War of Independence and offered financial aid?
1778
When was the Compte Rendu au Roi released?
1781
When did Necker resign?
19 May 1781
When did Calonne take office as Comptroller General?
1783
When did Callone suggest the calling of the Assembly of Notable?
1786
When did the Assembly of Notables convened?
22 Feb 1787 - 25 May 1787
When did Louis dismiss Calonne?
8 April 1787
When did De Brienne become finance minister?
30 April 1787 - 1788
When was the Parlement of Paris exiled by the King to the Troyes?
15 August 1787
When did the King hold a royal session with Parlement of Paris to assert his royal authority?
19 November 1787
When did the Parlement of Paris proclaims that new taxes need approval of Estates-General?
3 April 1788
When were the Parlements in exile again.
8 May 1788
When was the Day of Tiles?
10 June 1788
When did the estates-general called by Louis XVI?
8 August 1788
When did the Treasury payments be suspended; the crown is bankrupt?
16 August 1788
When did Necker get recalled?
26 August 1788
When did the Parlement of Paris decrees that Estate-General must meet according to the rules of 1614? (to vote by order)
25 September 1788
When did King Louis XVI agree to double the 3rd Estate numbers in Estates-General?
27 December 1788
When was the harvest crisis?
Summer 1788/89
When was the Cahiers de doleances drawn up?
Jan - May 1789
When is did Sieyes publish “What is the third estate?”
Jan 1789
When did bread prices soar up to 88% if a working man’s wage?
April 1789
When did peasant disturbance begin?
March 1789
When did the Reveillon riots: violent crowds protest rumored wage reductions?
26-29 April 1789
When did the Estate-General Open?
1 May 1789
When did the Estates General formally opens. 3rd Estates demands voting by head?
5 May 1789
When did the Estates-General announce themselves as a national assembly?
17 June 1789
When did the clergy (1st estate) join the 3rd Estate?
19 June 1789
When did the Tennis Court Oath occur?
20 June 1789
When did King Louis XVI declares National Assembly unconstitutional and commands three estates to meet separately but introduces reforms, at a royal session
23 June 1789
When did the soldiers sent to deny deputies entry support the National Assembly?
24 June 1789
When did the Second Estate begins to join National Assembly; 47 liberal nobles, including Duc d’Orléans, the King’s cousin, join the National Assembly.
25 June 1789
When did the King gives in and orders estates to unite in the national assembly?
27 June 1789
When did King refuses to withdraw troops?
2-10 July 1789
When did the National Assembly takes name, National Constituent Assembly
7 July 1789
When did the King dismiss Necker?
11 July 1789
When did Parisians attack customs barriers?
13 July 1789
When was the storming of Bastille?
14 July 1789
When did the King orders troops to leave Paris and recalls Necker?
15-16 July 1789
When did the King’s brother flee Paris, beginning of the flight of the Emigres 20,000 in the next 2 months
16 July 1789
When did the Lafayette escorts the King to Paris where he acknowledges the crowed by wearing red, white and blue
17 July 1789
When did the great fear occur?
20 July - 6 August 1789
When did the Night of Patriotic Delirium?
4 August 1789
When was Turgot Finance Minister?
1774-1776
When was the Turgot dismissed?
12 May 1776
When did the Aristocratic Revolution Occur?
1786-87
When did the Louis attempt to assert his absolute power through a lit de justice?
6 August 1787
When did the fundamental laws of the Kingdom occur?
3 May 1788
When did the Lit de Justice to reform program occur?
8 May 1788
When did France become bankrupt?
8 August 1788
When did Mass at the Church of St Louis? Dress and social distinctions enforced at the estates general?
4 May 1789
when was the formation of the national guard?
14 July 1789
When was King Louis XVI escorted to Paris by Lafayette?
17th July 1789
when where the municpial revolts?
13 - 17 July 1789
When was the night of patriotic delirium?
4 August 1789
