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Timeline of the French Revolution.

Events preceding but pertinent to the French Revolution

  • socialist
    ideas.

1740

  • War of Austrian Succession
    - which caused the French monarchy to fall heavily into debt.

1756

  • Start of Seven Years' War - which caused the situation to become increasingly more serious.

1774

1776

  • Louis XVI dismisses his finance minister,
    Turgot
  • Start of the
    American War of Independence
    (1776-1783)

1778

  • France declares war against Britain in support of the American colonies - the subsequent war worsens the debt situation further.

1783

  • Treaty of Paris ends the American War - the success of the American colonists against a European power increases the ambitions of those wishing for reform in France

1785

Financial crisis and Assembly of Notables

1786

1787

1788

  • May 6: Orders for the arrest of two Parisian parlementaires, d'Eprémesnil and Goislard, who are most implacably opposed to the government reforms, are issued; the parlement declares its solidarity with the two magistrates
  • May 7: d'Eprémesnil and Goislard are imprisoned
  • May 8: Judicial reforms partly abolishing the power of parlements to review legislation are forced through the parlements by Lamoignon in a lit de justice timed to coincide with military sessions
  • June: Outcry over the enforced reforms ensues, and courts across France refuse to sit
  • July 5: Brienne begins to consider calling an Estates-General
  • August 8: After being informed that the royal treasury is empty, Brienne sets May 1 1789 as the date for the Estates-General in an attempt to restore confidence with his creditors
  • August 16: Repayments on government loans stop, and the French government effectively declares bankruptcy
  • Late August: Brienne resigns, and Jacques Necker replaces him as Minister of Finance; de Lomenie, Archbishop of Toulouse is made chief minister
  • September: Necker releases those arrested for criticising Brienne's ministry, leading to a proliferation of political pamphlets
  • September 14: Lamoignon resigns
  • November: The relapse of the ban on political clubs leads to the establishment of the "Society of Thirty" in Paris
  • November 6: Necker convenes a second Assembly of Notables to discuss the Estates-General
  • Third Estate
  • December 27: Prompted by public controversy, Necker announces that the representation of the Third will be doubled, and that nobles and clergymen will be able to stand for the same

1789

  • Estates-General
    is convoked for the first time since 1614
  • Reveillon riots
    in Paris

Estates-General and Constituent Assembly

  • Estates-General
    - voting to be by Estate, not by head
  • May 28: The Third Estate (Tiers Etat) begins to meet on its own, calling themselves "communes" (commons)
  • June 10: The Third Estate votes for the common verification of credentials, in opposition to the First Estate (the clergy) and the Second Estate (the aristocracy)
  • June 13: Some priests from the First Estate choose to join the Third Estate
  • June 17: The Third Estate (commons) declares itself to be the National Assembly
  • June 20: Third Estate/National Assembly are locked out of meeting houses by royal decree; the Third Estate chooses to continue despite decree and decides upon a declarative vow, known as the "serment au Jeu de Paume" (The Tennis Court Oath), not to dissolve until the constitution has been established
  • June 22: National Assembly meets in church of St Louis, joined by a majority of clergy
  • June 23: Two companies of French guards mutiny in the face of public unrest. Louis XVI holds a Séance Royale, puts forward his 35-point program aimed at allowing the continuation of the three estates.
  • June 24: 48 nobles, headed by the Duke of Orléans, side with the Third Estate. A significant number of the clergy follow their example.
  • June 27: Louis recognises the validity of the National Assembly, and orders the First and Second Estates to join the Third.
  • June 30: Large crowd storms left bank prison and frees mutinous French Guards
  • July 1: Louis recruits more troops, among them many foreign mercenaries
  • July 9: National Assembly reconstitutes itself as National Constituent Assembly
  • July 11: Necker dismissed by Louis; populace sack the monasteries, ransack aristocrats' homes in search of food and weapons
  • July 12: Camille Desmoulins announces the dismissal of Necker to the Paris crowd. The Prince de Lambesc appears at the Tuilleries with an armed guard - a soldier and civilian are killed.
  • July 13: National Guard formed in Paris, of middle class men.
  • de Launay, (the governor), Foulon (the Secretary of State) and de Flesselles
    (the then equivalent of the mayor of Paris), amongst others, are massacred.
  • July 15: Lafayette appointed Commander of the National Guard.
  • July 16: Necker recalled, troops pulled out of Paris
  • July 17: The beginning of the Great Fear, the peasantry revolt against feudalism and a number of urban disturbances and revolts. Many members of the aristocracy flee Paris to become émigrés.
  • July 18: Publication of Desmoulins' La France libre favouring a republic and arguing that revolutionary violence was justified.
  • July 27: Louis XVI accepts the tricolor cockade.
  • The August Decrees
  • The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
  • September 11 The National Assembly grants suspensive veto to Louis XVI; Louis fails to ratify the August acts of the National Assembly.
  • October 5-6: Outbreak of the Paris mob; Liberal monarchical constitution; the Women's March on Versailles
  • October 6 Louis XVI agrees to ratify the August Decrees, Palace of Versailles stormed.

Louis and the National Assembly move to Paris.

  • November 2: Church property nationalised and otherwise expropriated
  • November: First publication of Desmoulins' weekly Histoire des Révolutions ...
  • December: National Assembly ddistinguishes between 'active' (monied) and 'passive' (property-less) citizens - only the active could vote
  • December 12 Assignats are used as legal tender

1790

  • January: Former Provinces of France replaced by new administrative Departments.
  • February 13 Suppression of monastic vows and religious orders
  • feudalism
    .
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man
    in secret consistory.
  • May National Assembly renounces involvement in wars of conquest.
  • May 19 Nobility abolished by the National Assembly.
  • July 12 The Civil Constitution of the Clergy. Demands priests to take an oath of loyalty to the state, splitting the clergy between juring (oath-taking) and non-juring priests.
  • July 14: The first Fete of Federation begins, celebrating the fall of the Bastille.
  • July: Growing power of the clubs (including:
    Jacobin Club
    )
  • July: Reorganisation of Paris
  • August 16 The parlements are abolished
  • September: Fall of Necker

1791

Legislative Assembly

1792

National Convention

  • September 20: First meeting of National Convention. French army stops advance of Coalition troops at Valmy.
  • First French Republic
    .
  • French Revolutionary Calendar
    .
  • December 3: Louis XVI brought to trial, appears before the National Convention (11 & 23 December). Robespierre argues that "Louis must die, so that the country may live".

1793

1794

1795

  • May 31: Suppression of the Paris Revolutionary Tribunal.
  • July 14: Marseillaise accepted as the French National Anthem.
  • 1795 Constitution
    ratified - bicameral system, executive Directory of five.
  • October 5: 13 Vendémiaire - Napoleon's "whiff of grapeshot" quells Paris insurrection.
  • October 26: National Convention dissolved.

The Directory

1796

1797

1798

1799


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