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* Timeline *
First or Moderate Stage of the Revolution (1789- 1791) |
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1789 |
May 5 |
Estates General meets at Versailles |
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June 13 |
Third Estate adopts the title of National Assembly |
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June 20 |
Tennis Court Oath |
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July 14 |
Fall of the Bastille |
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July- August |
The Great Fear |
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August 4 |
National Assembly abolished manorialism and feudalism |
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August 26 |
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen |
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October 5 |
March of women to Versailles |
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November 2 |
Church property nationalized |
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December 19 |
Assignats issued |
1790 |
June |
Titles of hereditary nobility abolished |
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July 12 |
Civil Constitution of the Clergy |
1791 |
New Constitution |
New elected legislative Assembly with King as chief executive officer |
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June 21 |
Flight to Verennes |
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June 25 |
King brought back to Paris |
August 27 |
Declaration of Pillnitz (declared by King of Austria who threatened military action to restore order in France |
Second or Radical Stage of the Revolution (1792- 1793) |
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1792 |
April 20 |
War declared on Austria in response to an ultimatum-- "Wars of the Revolution" began |
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July 25 |
Brunswick Manifesto by Prussia |
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August 10 |
Storming of the Tuileries. King taken prisoner |
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September 21 |
Convention abolishes monarchy and France proclaimed (the first) Republic |
1793 |
January 14 -17 |
Convention debates the fate of the King |
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January 21 |
King is executed |
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First Coalition--Alliance of Austria, England, Netherlands, Prussia, and Spain | |
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February 1 |
War declared against England and Holland |
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March 7 |
War declared against Spain |
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March 26 |
Committee of Public Safety established |
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March 29- June 2 |
Overthrow of Girondins from National Convention and Jacobins were left in control |
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Summer |
Committee of Public Safety launched Reign of Terror |
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July 17 |
Final abolition of all feudal rights without compensation |
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July 27 |
Robespierre joins Committee of Public Safety |
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October 7 |
Adoption of Revolutionary Calendar (Year two began on September 22 |
October 16 |
Marie Antoinette executed | |
October 31 |
Girondin leaders executed | |
Late 1793 |
Republic of Virtue |
Final or Reactionary Stage of the Revolution (1794-1799) |
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1794 |
July 27 |
Thermidorean Reaction (Thermidor--August 18- September 16) |
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July 28 |
Execution of Robespierre and his followers |
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1795-1789 |
The Directory, a five-member executive, established by the National Convention was to run the government. When a Paris mob threatened the new government, Napoleon Bonaparte put down the riot. Consequently, he was made commander of the French armies to fight the Austrians. |
