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Assembly of Notables
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1787 22 feb – 12 may
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Brienne replaces Calonne as finance minister
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1787 April
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Prussia invades Dutch Republic, Louis unable to respond
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1787 September
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Brienne attempts Maupeou-style reform of parlements
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1787 May
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king convokes estates general
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1788 8 Aug
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crown's usual source for short-term credit refused to lend more
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1788 August
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crown declares bankruptcy
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1788 August
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Necker recalled as finance minister (brienne resigned)
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1788
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opening of estates general
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1789 5 May
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third Estate calls itself National Assembly
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1789 17 june
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tennis court oath
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1789 20 June
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Dismissal of necker
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1789 11 July
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fall of bastille
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1789 14 July
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grande peur
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1789 20 July – 6 August
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Constituent Assembly abolished feudalism
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1789 4 August
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Assembly votes the Declaration of the rights of man
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1789 26 August
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women of Paris march to Versailles
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1789 5 – 6 October
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Church lands nationalised
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1789 2 November
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First municipal elections
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1790 January-February
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Assembly votes the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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1790 12 july
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slave uprising in Saint-Domingue
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1790 25 November
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royal flight to Varennes
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1790 20-21 June
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Champ de Mars massacre
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1791 12 july
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Legislative Assembly convenes
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1791 30 September
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France declares war on Austria
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1792 20 April
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Roguet de Lisle composes ‘la Marseillaise’
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1792 24 April
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failed assault on Tuileries Palace
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1792 20 June
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Invasion of Tuilleries, fall of monarchy
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1792 10 August
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First use of guillotine
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1792 21 August
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September massacres of Paris prisoners
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1792 2-6 September
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Victory at Valmy ; National Convention convenes
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1792 20 September
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National Convention declares the Republic
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1792 22 September
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Trial of Louis XVI begins
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1792 11 December
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Execution of Louis XVI
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1793 21 january
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France declares war on Great Britain and Holland
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1793 1 February
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France declares war on Spain
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1793 2 march
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Vendée rebellion begins
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1793 3 March
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Committee of Public Safety established
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1793 3 April
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Grain ‘maximum’ decreed
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1793 4 May
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Parisian uprising ousts girondin deputies
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1793 31 may – 2 june
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federalist Revolt
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1793 June – August
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Assassination of Marat
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1793 13 July
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Convention votes death penalty for hoarders
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1793 26 July
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Uprising in Paris following the surrender of Toulon to British
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1793 4-5 September
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National Convention votes the Law of Suspects
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1793 17 September
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National ‘maximum’ fixed for prices and wages
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1793 29 September
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Convention adopts Revolutionary Calendar
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1793 5 October
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Execution of Marie-Antoinette
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1793 16 October
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Execution of Girondin deputies
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1793 31 October
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De-Christianisation campaign
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1793 October – November
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Convention abolishes slavery in French colonies
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1794 4 February
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Execution of Hébert and his supporters
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1794 24 March
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Execution of Danton and his supporters
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1794 5 April
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Robespierre institutes Cult of the Supreme Being
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1794 7 May
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festival of the Supreme Being
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1794 8 June
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Fall of Robespierre (Thermidor)
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1794 27 July
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Government closes Jacobin clubs
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1794 19 November
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Government defeats last great Paris uprising
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1795 20-22 May
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National Convention votes Constitution of Year III
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1795 22 August
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Napoleon suppresses royalist uprising in Paris
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1794 5 October
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Directory regime replaces national Convention
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1795 26 October
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Fructidor coup
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1797 4 September
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Floréal coup
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1798 11 may
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Napoleon sails to Egypt
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1798 17 May
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Prairial coup
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1799 18 June
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Napoleon signs Concordat with Catholic church
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1801
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Napoleon crowns himself Emperor
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1804 2 December
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