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Timeline of the French Revolution
Timeline
of the
French Revolution
. See also
History of France
.
1789
January 24: Summoning of the
States-General
May 5: Meeting of the
States-General
June 17: National Assembly declared
June 20:
Tennis Court Oath
July 9:
National Constituent Assembly
declared
July 11:
Necker
dismissed
July 14: Storming of the
Bastille
August 4: Surrender of
feudal
rights
August 27:
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
October 5-6: Outbreak of the Paris mob; Liberal monarchical constitution
1790
July 14: Constitution accepted by King Louis XVI
July -- : Growing power of the clubs (including:
Cordeliers
,
Jacobin Club
)
July -- : Reorganisation of
Paris
September: Fall of
Necker
1791
April 2: Death of
Mirabeau
June 20-25:
Flight to Varennes
of the royal family
July 17:
Champ-de-Mars
massacre
September 30: Dissolution of the
National Constituent Assembly
October 1:
Legislative Assembly
meets
August 27: Declaration of Pillnitz ( Frederick William II and Leopold II)
1792
February 7: Alliance of
Austria
and
Prussia
April 20: French declare war against
Austria
August 10: Storming of the
Tuileries
September 2-7: The September Massacres
September 20:
Battle of Valmy
September 21:
National Convention
meets; Abolition of the
monarchy
December: Trial of Louis XVI before the Convention
1793
January 21: Execution of Louis XVI
February 1: War declared against Britain, Holland,
Spain
March -- : Royalist revolt in the
Vendée
April -- : Power centered in the
Committee of Public Safety
and the Committee of General Security
June 2: Arrest of 31
Girondist
deputies
July 13: Assassination of
Jean-Paul Marat
August 23: Levy of entire male population
September 17: Establishment of the
maximum
price
October 16: Execution of
Marie Antoinette
October 31: Execution of Girondists
November 10: Abolition of the worship of god: Cult of Reason
December -- : Retreat of the allies across the Rhine
1794
January 19 : English land in Corsica
February 4 :
Abolition of slavery
in colonies
March 24 : Execution of the Hébertists
April 6 : Execution of the Dantonists
June 8 : Festival of the Supreme Being
June 10 : Law of 22 Prairial (power to the Revolutionary Tribunal)
June 26 :
Battle of Fleurus (1794)
(French victory in Belgium)
July 27 : Fall of
Maximilian Robespierre
(9
Thermidor
)
December 24 : Repeal of
maximum
1795
March 5 : Treaty of Basel (Prussia withdraws from war)
April 1 : Bread riots in Paris
June 8 : Death of the dauphin ( Louis XVII)
August 22 : Constitution of 1795
October 5 : Napoleon's "whiff of grape-shot"
October 26 : Convention dissolved; Directory begins
1796
March 5 : War against the
Holy Roman Empire
March 9 Marriage of
Napoleon Bonaparte
and Josephine
May 10
Battle of Lodi
(Napoleon in Italy)
July Siege of
Mantua
1797
April 18 Preliminary Peace of Leoben
July 8 :
Cisalpine Republic
established
September 4 :
Coup d'Etat
at Paris (republicans over reactionaries)
October 17 :
Treaty of Campo Formio
1798
February -- :
Roman Republic
proclaimed
April -- : Helvetian Republic proclaimed
July 21 : Battle of the Pyramids
August 1 :
Battle of the Nile
December 24 : Alliance between Russia and Britain
1799
- Beginning of the
Napoleonic Era
June 17-19 :
Battle of the Trebia
(
Suvorov
defeats French)
August 24 : Napoleon leaves Egypt
October 22 : Russians withdraw from coalition
November 9 : The Coup d'Etat of
Brumaire
(18 Brumaire): end of the Directory
December 24 : Constitution of the Year VIII:
Dictatorship
of Napoleon established under the Consulate