Timeline of the French Revolution
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1789
- May 5: Meeting of the States-General
- June 17: National Assembly declared
- June 20: Tennis Court Oath
- July 9: National Constituent Assembly declared
- 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 VendŽe
- 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 HŽbertists
- 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