1789

                        May 1

                                        First meeting of the Estates General

                        June 17      

                                        Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly (1789-1791)

                        June 20

                                        Tennis Court Oath

                        July 14

                                        The Storming of the Bastille by the people of Paris

                        August

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen issued by the National Assembly

The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen written by Olympe de Gouges

                                        Feudalism abolished

                        October 5

                                        Women's March to Versailles

        1791

                        June 20

Louis XVI and his family unsuccessfully attempt to flee France and are arrested

                                        Constitution of 1791 adopted

                                        Legislative Assembly established (1791-1792)

       1792

                                        Vindication of the Rights of Woman written by Mary Wollstonecraft

                        June

                                        15,000 people marched on the Legislative Assembly

                                        The suspension of the King petitioned

                        August 10

                                        Attack on the royal palace

                        September

                                        First meeting of the National Convention (1792-1795)

The National Convention abolished the monarchy and proclaimed the First French Republic

                                        September massacres

        1793

                                        The Society for Revolutionary Republican Women founded

                        December 1792-January 17

                                        Trial of Louis XVI

                        January 21

                                        King Louis XVI guillotined

       1794

                        September 1793-July 1794

                                        The Reign of Terror

                        July 27

                                        Robespierre arrested by the National Convention

                        July 28

                                        Robespierre guillotined

        1795

                        August 22