Crucial Dates: France AOS 2

Question 1

August Decrees

Answer 1

5 - 11 Aug 1789

Question 2

DORMAC legislation passed

Answer 2

27th August 1789

Question 3

Assembly voted to grant king ability to veto legislation

Answer 3

11th Sept 1789

Question 4

march of women to versailles

Answer 4

5-6 Oct 1789

Question 5

Fundamental principles of government (legislative power resides in national assembly)

Answer 5

1 Oct 1789

Question 6

Sale of church lands (biens national)

Answer 6

November 1789

Question 7

abolition of feudal titles and nobility

Answer 7

June 1790

Question 8

CCC

Answer 8

12 july 1790

Question 9

Feta de le Federation

Answer 9

14 July 1790

Question 10

abolition of parlements restructured legal system

Answer 10

August 1790

Question 11

Uniform tariff is implemented through a decree

Answer 11

31 october 1790

Question 12

Le Chapelier Law (abolished associations of workmen and employers - mcphee sees it as a ‘commitment to economic liberalism’

Answer 12

14 June 1791

Question 13

Flight to Varennes

Answer 13

20 June 1791

Question 14

King is returned to paris

Answer 14

25th June 1791

Question 15

Champ de Mars massacre (SC demanding referendum on king’s fate)

Answer 15

17 July 1791

Question 16

Declaration of Pillnitz (threat of war unless louis’ power was restored)

Answer 16

27 Aug 1791

Question 17

Constitution of 1791 (became constitutional monarchy)

Answer 17

Sept 1791

Question 18

poor harvest of 1791 erupted riots in Paris at grocers’ markets

Answer 18

Jan 1792

Question 19

Counter revolution in Vendee begins

Answer 19

Spring 1792

Question 20

France declares war with Austria

Answer 20

april 1792

Question 21

Assembly passed decree to enlist 20,000 men to join the Federes and defend the city

Answer 21

June 1792

Question 22

First storming of the Tuileries

Answer 22

20 June 1792

Question 23

La Patrie en Danger (call for citizens to sacrifice themselves for the defence of the homeland)

Answer 23

11 July 1792

Question 24

Brunswick Manifesto (Duke of brunswick commander of Austrian forces demanded louis’ freedom)

Answer 24

25 July 1792

Question 25

pikes made and issued to citizens

Answer 25

1 aug 1792

Question 26

Second Storming of the Tuileries

Answer 26

10 Aug 1792

Question 27

news that the fortress of Longway had fallen reached Paris

Answer 27

24 August 1792

Question 28

Sept Massacres

Answer 28

2-6 Sept 1792

Question 29

New assembly of France (National Convention) met for first time

Answer 29

21 September 1792

Question 30

Republic Declared

Answer 30

22 September 1792

Question 31

Trial Of Louis

Answer 31

Dec 1792

Question 32

louis was found guilty of conspiracy against public liberty and of attacks on the general state

Answer 32

15 January 1793

Question 33

louis is executed

Answer 33

21 january 1793

Question 34

conscription of 300,000 men (levee)

Answer 34

24th Feb 1793

Question 35

General Charles Dumouriez defects to Austrians (trigger for fall of Girondins)

Answer 35

5th April 1793

Question 36

outright rebellion in the vendee in response to the levee of feb that would take away young men from vendee farms

Answer 36

Mid March 1793

Question 37

Revolutionary Tribunal was set up to hasten the trial and execution of suspects

Answer 37

11th March 1793

Question 38

Committee of public safety established to control conduct of war inside and outside France and to maintain supplies to army and civilians (took control of the country economically and politically)

Answer 38

6th April 1793

Question 39

Marat was acquitted from trial

Answer 39

24th April 1793

Question 40

Expulsion of Girondins

Answer 40

May-June 1793

Question 41

Murder of Marat

Answer 41

July 1793

Question 42

National Convention declared let terror be the order of the day

Answer 42

5th September 1793

Question 43

Federalist revolt rejected the rule from paris and but only 400 set out on their march to paris and returned after travelling less than 50 km

Answer 43

June 1793

Question 44

Law of suspects (supported committees such as COPS, watch committees, Committee of General Security through legislation and it aimed to identify and condemn traitors)

Answer 44

17 sep 1793

Question 45

Execution of Marie Antoinette

Answer 45

16 october 1793

Question 46

De-christianisation campaign, changed calendar, removed religious holidays and crucifixes and crosses were torn down etc

Answer 46

october 1793

Question 47

executions of virtually all Girondins including Bailly, Brissot, Vergniaud etc

Answer 47

31 oct - 7 november 1793

Question 48

Law of Frimaire (constitution of the Terror)

Answer 48

4 december 1793

Question 49

General maximum established (places maximum prices on grain and income - displeased both peasant growers and SC

Answer 49

29 september 1793

Question 50

Danton and desmoulins executed

Answer 50

april 1794

Question 51

Law of 22 Prairial (widened the definition of counter revolutionary - even deputies of national convention were subject to its provisions)

Answer 51

10 june 1794

Question 52

Festival of supreme being (some believed Robespierre was creating his own religion)

Answer 52

8th June 1794

Question 53

how many people were guillotined between March 1793 and August 1794

Answer 53

2639

Question 54

deatht of Robespierre (end of the terror) (Coup of Thermidor)

Answer 54

28th July 1794

Question 55

Furet predicts ______ people were killed during the terror

Answer 55

100,000

Question 56

closure of the jacobin club

Answer 56

november 1794

Question 57

beginning of thermidorian reaction (revolution becomes more conservative and radicals are now targeted)

Answer 57

july 1794

Question 58

12 Germinal Year III (SC invade convention and demand bread and return to constiution of 1793 - they were ejected by right wing activists and 4000 Jacobins and SC's were arrested)

Answer 58

1-3 April 1795

Question 59

Journee of 1 Prairial (SC's invade national Convention one last time and kill one deputy but are dispersed by national guard) lefebvre belives 'this date should mark the end of the revolution'

Answer 59

20 - 23 May 1795

Question 60

Royalist Insurrection of 1 Vendemaire

Answer 60

5th october 1795

Question 61

Constitution of the Year III 1795 (returns france to far more moderate republic)

Answer 61

26th October 1795