Unit 3 AOS 1: Causes of the French Revolution Timeline

Question 1

When was the Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu published (separation of powers)?

Answer 1

1748

Question 2

When was the Encyclopédie first published?

Answer 2

1751

Question 3

When was the social contract by Rousseau published?

Answer 3

1762

Question 4

When was the Treatise on Toleration published by Voltaire?

Answer 4

1763

Question 5

When did King Louis XVI accession?

Answer 5

10 May 1774

Question 6

When did marie antoinette marry King Louis XVI?

Answer 6

1770

Question 7

When was the American Revolution (American War of Independence)?

Answer 7

19 April 1775 - 3 September 1783

Question 8

When was the Necker appointed Director of Royal Treasury?

Answer 8

22 October 1776

Question 9

When was the 7 years war?

Answer 9

17 May 1756 – 15 February 1763

Question 10

When did France join the American War of Independence and offered financial aid?

Answer 10

1778

Question 11

When was the Compte Rendu au Roi released?

Answer 11

1781

Question 12

When did Necker resign?

Answer 12

19 May 1781

Question 13

When did Calonne take office as Comptroller General?

Answer 13

1783

Question 14

When did Callone suggest the calling of the Assembly of Notable?

Answer 14

1786

Question 15

When did the Assembly of Notables convened?

Answer 15

22 Feb 1787 - 25 May 1787

Question 16

When did Louis dismiss Calonne?

Answer 16

8 April 1787

Question 17

When did De Brienne become finance minister?

Answer 17

30 April 1787 - 1788

Question 18

When was the Parlement of Paris exiled by the King to the Troyes?

Answer 18

15 August 1787

Question 19

When did the King hold a royal session with Parlement of Paris to assert his royal authority?

Answer 19

19 November 1787

Question 20

When did the Parlement of Paris proclaims that new taxes need approval of Estates-General?

Answer 20

3 April 1788

Question 21

When were the Parlements in exile again.

Answer 21

8 May 1788

Question 22

When was the Day of Tiles?

Answer 22

10 June 1788

Question 23

When did the estates-general called by Louis XVI?

Answer 23

8 August 1788

Question 24

When did the Treasury payments be suspended; the crown is bankrupt?

Answer 24

16 August 1788

Question 25

When did Necker get recalled?

Answer 25

26 August 1788

Question 26

When did the Parlement of Paris decrees that Estate-General must meet according to the rules of 1614? (to vote by order)

Answer 26

25 September 1788

Question 27

When did King Louis XVI agree to double the 3rd Estate numbers in Estates-General?

Answer 27

27 December 1788

Question 28

When was the harvest crisis?

Answer 28

Summer 1788/89

Question 29

When was the Cahiers de doleances drawn up?

Answer 29

Jan - May 1789

Question 30

When is did Sieyes publish "What is the third estate?"

Answer 30

Jan 1789

Question 31

When did bread prices soar up to 88% if a working man's wage?

Answer 31

April 1789

Question 32

When did peasant disturbance begin?

Answer 32

March 1789

Question 33

When did the Reveillon riots: violent crowds protest rumored wage reductions?

Answer 33

26-29 April 1789

Question 34

When did the Estate-General Open?

Answer 34

1 May 1789

Question 35

When did the Estates General formally opens. 3rd Estates demands voting by head?

Answer 35

5 May 1789

Question 36

When did the Estates-General announce themselves as a national assembly?

Answer 36

17 June 1789

Question 37

When did the clergy (1st estate) join the 3rd Estate?

Answer 37

19 June 1789

Question 38

When did the Tennis Court Oath occur?

Answer 38

20 June 1789

Question 39

When did King Louis XVI declares National Assembly unconstitutional and commands three estates to meet separately but introduces reforms, at a royal session

Answer 39

23 June 1789

Question 40

When did the soldiers sent to deny deputies entry support the National Assembly?

Answer 40

24 June 1789

Question 41

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.

Answer 41

25 June 1789

Question 42

When did the King gives in and orders estates to unite in the national assembly?

Answer 42

27 June 1789

Question 43

When did King refuses to withdraw troops?

Answer 43

2-10 July 1789

Question 44

When did the National Assembly takes name, National Constituent Assembly

Answer 44

7 July 1789

Question 45

When did the King dismiss Necker?

Answer 45

11 July 1789

Question 46

When did Parisians attack customs barriers?

Answer 46

13 July 1789

Question 47

When was the storming of Bastille?

Answer 47

14 July 1789

Question 48

When did the King orders troops to leave Paris and recalls Necker?

Answer 48

15-16 July 1789

Question 49

When did the King's brother flee Paris, beginning of the flight of the Emigres 20,000 in the next 2 months

Answer 49

16 July 1789

Question 50

When did the Lafayette escorts the King to Paris where he acknowledges the crowed by wearing red, white and blue

Answer 50

17 July 1789

Question 51

When did the great fear occur?

Answer 51

20 July - 6 August 1789

Question 52

When did the Night of Patriotic Delirium?

Answer 52

4 August 1789

Question 53

When was Turgot Finance Minister?

Answer 53

1774-1776

Question 54

When was the Turgot dismissed?

Answer 54

12 May 1776

Question 55

When did the Aristocratic Revolution Occur?

Answer 55

1786-87

Question 56

When did the Louis attempt to assert his absolute power through a lit de justice?

Answer 56

6 August 1787

Question 57

When did the fundamental laws of the Kingdom occur?

Answer 57

3 May 1788

Question 58

When did the Lit de Justice to reform program occur?

Answer 58

8 May 1788

Question 59

When did France become bankrupt?

Answer 59

8 August 1788

Question 60

When did Mass at the Church of St Louis? Dress and social distinctions enforced at the estates general?

Answer 60

4 May 1789

Question 61

when was the formation of the national guard?

Answer 61

14 July 1789

Question 62

When was King Louis XVI escorted to Paris by Lafayette?

Answer 62

17th July 1789

Question 63

when where the municpial revolts?

Answer 63

13 - 17 July 1789

Question 64

When was the night of patriotic delirium?

Answer 64

4 August 1789