French Rev. Dates

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1756-63
seven years war
1 of 80
1774
accession of louis
2 of 80
1778
france entered AWofI
3 of 80
1781-87
economic crisis
4 of 80
1788
declaration of bankruptcy
5 of 80
1789 may 5
estates-general met
6 of 80
1789 june 17
national assembly proclaimed
7 of 80
1789 june 20
tennis court oath
8 of 80
1789 july 10
formation of citizens' militia
9 of 80
1789 july 14
storming of the bastille
10 of 80
1789 july 20
start of great fear
11 of 80
1789 august 4
august decrees
12 of 80
1789 august 26
declaration of the rights of man and the citizen
13 of 80
1789 october 5-6
october days
14 of 80
1789 november 2
nationalisation of church property
15 of 80
1790 may 21
creation of the paris sections
16 of 80
1790 july 12
civil constitution of the clergy
17 of 80
1790 august 16
reorganisation of the judiciary
18 of 80
1791 march 2
dissolution of the guilds
19 of 80
1791 june 14
le chapelier law
20 of 80
1791 june 20
flight to varennes
21 of 80
1791 july 17
champs de mars massacre
22 of 80
1791 august 27
declaration of pillnitz
23 of 80
1791 september 14
louis accepts new constitution
24 of 80
1791 november 9
decree against emigres
25 of 80
1792 march
guillotine to be used for all public executions
26 of 80
1792 april 20
war declared on austria
27 of 80
1792 may 27
new decree against refractory priests
28 of 80
1792 june 13
prussia declare war on france
29 of 80
1792 august 10
overthrow of the monarchy
30 of 80
1792 august 19
prussian forces enter northern france
31 of 80
1792 september 2-7
september massacres
32 of 80
1792 september 22
proclamation of the republic
33 of 80
1792 november 6
battle of jemappes
34 of 80
1792 november 19
decree of fraternity
35 of 80
1793 january 21
louis xvi executed
36 of 80
1793 february 1
war declared on GB and Dutch Republic
37 of 80
1793 march 10
revolutionary tribunal established
38 of 80
1793 march 11
revolt in the vendee
39 of 80
1793 april 6
CPS created
40 of 80
1793 june 2
girondin deputies purged
41 of 80
1793 june 24
new constitution approved
42 of 80
1793 july 17
final abolition of feudalism in france
43 of 80
1793 july 27
robespierre joins CPS
44 of 80
1793 august 23
decree of levee en masse issued
45 of 80
1793 september 17
law of suspects
46 of 80
1793 september 22
year II began
47 of 80
1793 september 29
general maximum introduced
48 of 80
1793 october 5
new revolutionary calendar established
49 of 80
1793 october 16
battle of wattignies
50 of 80
1793 december 4
law of frimaire (established revolutionary government)
51 of 80
1794 march 24
execution of hebert and leading supporters
52 of 80
1794 april 5
danton and desmoulins executed
53 of 80
1794 june 8
festival of the supreme being
54 of 80
1794 july 27-28
coup of thermidor
55 of 80
1794 july 28
execution of robespierre
56 of 80
1794 august 1
law of prairial repealed (government reorganised)
57 of 80
1794 september 18
state ends financial support of the church
58 of 80
1794 november 12
jacobin club closed
59 of 80
1795 february 21
formal separation of church and state
60 of 80
1795 april 1-2
germinal rising
61 of 80
1795 may 20-23
prairial rising
62 of 80
1795 august 22
constitution of the Year III
63 of 80
1795 october 1
- vendemiaire uprising - bonaprte appointed commander of army
64 of 80
1795 november 2
directory established
65 of 80
1796 march 11
bonaparte appointed to command army in italy
66 of 80
1797 september 4
coup d'etat of fructidor
67 of 80
1798 may 11
law of floreal
68 of 80
1799 june 18
coup d'etat of prairial
69 of 80
1799 november 9-10
- coup d'etat of brumaire - bonaparte overthrows directory
70 of 80
1799 december 25
constitution of year VIII
71 of 80
1801 july 15
signing of concordat with the pope
72 of 80
1802 march 27
peace of amiens
73 of 80
1803 may 18
start of napoleonic war
74 of 80
1804 march 21
civil code issued
75 of 80
1804 may 18
napoleon declared emperor of france
76 of 80
1805 october 21
battle of trafalgar
77 of 80
1808 may 5
- forced abdication of the king of spain - start of peninsular war
78 of 80
1812 june 22
napoleon invaded russia
79 of 80
1815 june 18
battle of waterloo
80 of 80

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