French Revolution (date->event)

Question 1

1774

Answer 1

• Louis XVI becomes King
• (August) Turgot becomes Controller-General of Finances

Question 2

1775

Answer 2

• American Revolution starts (NOT FRENCH INVOLVMENT)

Question 3

1776

Answer 3

• Six Edicts
• (May) Turgot dismissed

Question 4

1777

Answer 4

• Necker appointed Director General of Finances
• Lafayette volunteered for service with American colonists

Question 5

1778

Answer 5

• French involvement in American Revolution
• Boehmer and Bassenge approached Louis XVI offering the necklace as a gift for Marie Antoinette

Question 6

1779

Answer 6

• Necker reduced number of tax farmers from 60 to 40

Question 7

1781

Answer 7

• (19th February) Necker published ‘Rendu au roi’
• (19th May) Necker dismissed
• Start of economic crisis
• Bad harvest
• Lafayette returned to France

Question 8

1782

Answer 8

• Bad harvest
• Wetter than average spring

Question 9

1783

Answer 9

• (June) Laki volcano in Ireland exploded
• (3rd November) Calonne becomes Controller-General
• American Revolution ends= Treaty of Paris [France had debt of over 303 billion livres + very little reward for American Rev]

Question 10

1784

Answer 10

(March) Jeanne de la Motte begins communicating with Cardinal Louis de Rohan
(Late) Boehmer and Bassenge asked Jeanne to persuade Antoinette to buy the necklace

Question 11

1785

Answer 11

• Affair of the Diamond Necklace –> (February) Rohan passed it onto a 3rd party (August) They were arrested
• 80 newspapers (3 in 1700)

Question 12

1786

Answer 12

• Eden Treaty
• Calonne warns king of bankruptcy

Question 13

1787

Answer 13

• Assembly of Notables
• (25th May) Brienne is Controller-General