Chronology of the French Revolution

1789

• May 5: Meeting of the Estates-General
• June 17: National Assembly declared
• June 20: Tennis Court Oath
• July 14: Storming of the Bastille
• August 4: Surrender of feudal rights
• August 27: Declaration of the Rights of Man
• October 5-6: Outbreak of the Paris mob; Liberal monarchical constitution

• Voltaire

1790

• July 14: Constitution accepted by the king;
• July -- : Growing power of the clubs;
• July -- : Reorganization of Paris
• September: Fall of Necker

1791

• April 2: Death of Mirabeau
• June 20-25: Flight of the King
• September 30: Dissolution of Constituent Assembly
• October 1: Legislative Assembly meets
• August 27: Declaration of Pillnitz (William II and Lepold 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 Vendée
• April -- : Power centered in two committees; Committee of Public Security
• June 2: Arrest of 31 Girondist deputies
• July 13: Assassination of 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

• March 24 : Execution of Hébertists
• April 6 : Execution of Dantonists
• June 8 : Festival of the Supreme Being
• June 10 : Law of 22 Prairial (power to revolutionary tribunal)
• June 26 : Battle of Fleurus (French victory in Belgium)
• July 27 : Fall of 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

1796

• March 5 : War against the empire
• March 9 Marriage of 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

• 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)
• December 24 : Constitution of the Year VIII: Dictatorship of Napoleon established