French revolution timeline
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Updated: 18 May 2019
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Created byDaniel Wilson
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January 1789
What is the third estate?
Abbe Sieyes24th January 1789
The king calls the estates general5th May 1789
Estates general is opened17th June 1789
The third estate vote to call itself the National assembly20th June 1789
Tennis Court Oath11th July 1789
The king dismisses Necker14th July 1789
The storming of the Bastille27th June 1789
The king order a common session4th August 1789
August Decrees
End of feudalism + privileges26th August 1789
Declaration of the Rights of Man1st October 1789
Party held at Versailles for Flanders regiments
Said to be anti-revoltuioanry5th October 1789
Women and the national guard march on Versailles6th October 1789
The Women invade the palace + Lafayette convinces the king to come back to Paris2nd November 1789
Church property Nationalised9th July 1789
National assembly becomes the national constituent assembly9th December 1789
France divided into 83 new departments13th February 1790
monastic orders abolished except educational + caring ones19th April 1790
The rest of the church land was transfered to the state12th July 1790
The assembly passed the civil constitution of the clergy9th July
Pope Pius wrote to Louis telling him to reject the civil constitution19th June 1790
The assembly abolish titles and privileges of hereditary nobles26th December 1790
The king acepts the civil constituoon27th November 1790
The assembly vote to add an oath to the civil constitution14th September 1791
Constitution signed by the king20-21st June 1791
flight to Varnens17th July 1791
Champ De Mars Massacre9th June 1791
Assembly forbid papal balls to be published29th November 1791
legislative assembly arrest all refractory priestJuly 25th 1792
Brunswick Manifesto9/10th August 1792
The storming of the Tulliers24th June 1791
The assembly refuse a pettion of 30,000 to dissmis the king1st October 1791
The national constituent assembly dissolved
and the legislative assembly is created27th August 1791
Declaration of Pilnitz
Issued by HRE Leopold + King Fredrick of Prussia
Supporting Louis after arrest at Varnes21st June 1791
The Kings powers are supsended16th July 1791
The assembly restore the kings power
if he signs the constitution1st January 1791
The tithe is abolished14th April 1790
The assembly vote to abolish the tithe13th April 1791
Pope Pius condemned the CCOTC, rights of man
and the August decrees in a papal bull called "Charitas"21st January 1793
Louis is executed on the place de revoultion10th August 1793
Convention suspended until peace16th October 1793
Marie Antionette executed10th June 1794
Law of 22 Prairial introduced
Executed without trial or evidence11th August 1792
Layfette defects to Austria
Road to paris is openApril 1793
CPS set upJuly 1793
Robespierre joins the CPS29th September 1793
Law of General Maximum
Wages = 1/2 above 1790
Grain = 1/3 above 179017th September 1793
Law of Suspects
imprisoned without trialMarch 1793
Vendee uprisng beginsOctober 1793
Revolutionary calendar Introduced
Part of de-Christianisation
Take france back to agricutuere24th March 1794
The Herbertist were removed
and executed2nd June 1793
Girondins expelled + Executed13th July 1793
Marat is murdered6th April 1793
Execution of the Dantonist8th June 1794
Festival of the Supreme Being28th July 1794
Robespierre executed
After the Coup of Thermidor
on the 27th1st August 1794
Law of 22 Prairial repealedPeriods
April to May
Election for the estates general heldLate July to early August
The Great FearJan - Feb 1791
The oaths of the clergy take place
60% of priest take it + most bishops don'tSeptember Massacres - 1793
Sans Culottes murder
prisoners over fear of counter-revolutionAugust 1793
Levee en Masse introduced
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