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Timeline of the French Revolution
Timeline of the French Revolution; see also History of France.
- 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
- July 14: Constitution accepted by King Louis XVI
- July -- : Growing power of the clubs;
- July -- : Reorganisation of Paris
- September: Fall of Necker
- 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)
- 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
- January 21: Execution of Louis XVI
- February 1: War declared against Britain, Holland, Spain
- March -- : Royalist revolt in the Vendée
- 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
- March 24 : Execution of the Hébertists[?]
- 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[?] (French victory in Belgium)
- July 27 : Fall of Maximilian Robespierre (9 Thermidor)
- December 24 : Repeal of maximum
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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