When? Flashcards
1
Q
When did Louis XVI succeed the throne?
A
1774
2
Q
When did Louis XVI declare war on England?
A
1774
3
Q
When was the Assembly of Notables called?
A
February 1787
4
Q
When did France begin supplying aid to America?
A
1776
5
Q
Turgot’s Six Edicts
A
1776
6
Q
Turgot ordered to resign
A
May 1776
7
Q
When was Necker appointed as Director-General?
A
June 1777
8
Q
Official alliance with America
A
1778
9
Q
Necker’s resignation
A
May 1781
10
Q
Treaty of Paris
A
1783
11
Q
Calonne appointed Controller-General
A
1783
12
Q
Parliament lectured by King at Versailles
A
1785
13
Q
Calonne reform package
A
1786
14
Q
Calonne dismissed and exiled
A
April 1787
15
Q
Brienne appointed
A
May 1787
16
Q
Assembly of Notables dissolved
A
May 1787
17
Q
Paris Parlement petitions for Estates-General
A
July 1787
18
Q
Paris Parlement banished to Troyes
A
August 1787
19
Q
Parlement returns
A
September 1787
20
Q
Royal session and Estates-General promised if loans let through
A
November 1787
21
Q
Parlement issued Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom
A
May 1788
22
Q
May Edicts forced through with lit de justice
A
May 1788
23
Q
Revolt of the Nobles
A
May - August 1788
24
Q
Day of Tiles in Grenoble
A
June 1788
25
Bankruptcy declared and Brienne dismissed
August 1788
26
Necker reappointed
25th August 1788
27
Estates General would follow old rules
September 1788
28
Double representation
December 1788
29
What is the Third Estate?
January 1789
30
Cahiers des doleances compiled
Early 1789
31
Reveillon Riots
April 1789
32
Procession of Estates General
4th May 1789
33
First session of Estates General
5th May 1789
34
Dauphin dies
4th June 1789
35
Third Estate to be called National Assembly
17th June
36
Clergy and some liberal nobles join National Assembly
19th June 1789
37
Tennis Court Oath
20th June 1789
38
Louis refuses to accept National Assembly
23rd June 1789
39
4800 extra troops based in Paris
26th June 1789
40
Louis recognises National Assembly
27th June 1789
41
Necker dismissed
11th July 1789
42
Breakdown of order in Paris
12-13th July 1789
43
Storming of the Bastille
14th July 1789
44
Commune and National Guard set up
July 1789
45
Louis addresses Parisians from Hotel de Ville
17th July 1789
46
The Great Fear
17th July - 3rd August 1789
47
Constitution decided
July - August 1789
48
Abolition of feudal rights
4th August 1789
49
August Decrees
4-11th August 1789
50
DOROMAC
26th August 1789
51
King given suspensory veto
September 1789
52
King of the French
October 1789
53
October Days
5-6th October 1789
54
National Assembly moves to Paris
20th October 1789
55
Old provinces abolished
November 1789
56
All Church property nationalised
2nd November 1789
57
Active/ passive citizens and assignats
December 1789
58
Monastic property starts being sold
February 1790
59
Salt tax (gabelle) abolished
March 1790
60
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
12th July 1790
61
Oath to the Civil Constitution
27th November 1790
62
Louis accepts the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
December 1790
63
Pope issues papal bull against CCC
April 1791
64
Failed Palace of Saint-Cloud
18th April 1791
65
Le Chapelier Law
June 1791
66
Flight to Varennes
20th June 1791
67
Louis’ temporary suspension
16th July 1791
68
Champ de Mars Massacre
17th July 1791
69
Legislative Assembly meets for the first time
1st October 1791
70
Flight to Varennes
20th June 1791
71
Declaration of Pillnitz
27th August 1791
72
Decree against emigres
9th November 1791
73
Refractory priests must take the oath or be treated as traitors
29th November 1791
74
Austria and Prussia make formal alliance
February 1792
75
All forms of religious dress banned.
April 1792
76
French declaration of war on Austria
20th April 1792
77
French troops massacred their own officer
28th April 1792
78
Refractory priests could be deported
May 1792
79
Assembly ordered the disbanding of the King’s guard as they celebrated military setbacks
29th May 1792
80
Assembly set up a federe camp to expand the force of the National Guardsmen
8th June 1792
81
1st Journee
20th June 1792
82
La Patrie en danger
11th July 1792
83
Brunswick Manifesto
25th July 1792
84
Robespierre makes republican speech
29th July 1792
85
Sans-culottes take over the Hotel de Ville and set up a revolutionary Commune
9th August 1792
86
2nd Journee
10th August 1792
87
The First Terror
17th Aug - 6th September 1792
88
September Massacres
2nd-7th September 1792
89
National Convention formed
September 1792
90
Abolition of monarchy by National Convention
21st / 22nd September 1792
91
CGS formed
October 1792
92
Universal Male Suffrage
June 1793
93
Assignats at 1/3 of face value
August 1793
94
Savoy gained
October/November 1792
95
Grain supply to Paris 1/4 of usual supply due to hoarding
August 1793
96
Armoire de fer
November 1792
97
Decree of Fraternity
19th November 1792
98
Louis put on trial
December 1792
99
Discussion of expansion of natural frontiers
January 1793
100
Louis executed
21st January 1793
101
Convention declared war on Britain and Netherlands
1st February 1793
102
Dumouriez defeated by Austrians at Neerwinden then defects and plots with Austrians.
March 1793
103
France declares war on Spain
March 1793
104
Revolutionary Tribunal
March 1793
105
Representants en mission
March 1793
106
France pushed back into its own territory
March 1793
107
Series of attacks on Girondin printing presses.
9-10th March 1793
108
Summary Execution Decree
19th March 1793
109
First Coalition
March - September 1793
110
Levy en masse for 300,000
March 1793
111
Catholic and Royal Army of the Vendee formed
14th March 1793
112
Vendee Rebellion
March - December 1793
113
Robespierre speech challenging property rights
April 1793
114
Petition to expel Girondins
5th April 1793
115
CPS formed
6th April 1793
116
Girondins produce indictment for Marat’s arrest
12th April 1793
117
8000 sans culottes demand price controls on bread
3rd May 1793
118
Robespierre invites insurrection
26th May 1793
119
Jacobin leaders in Lyon forced out of office
29th May 1793
120
Insurrection of Girondins
2nd June 1793
121
New Jacobin Constitution with Universal Male Suffrage
24th June 1793
122
Marat murdered
13th July 1793
123
Destruction of Vendee decreed
1st August 1793
124
Levee en masse by CPS
23rd August 1793
125
Military victories at Dunkirk that boost moral
September 1793
126
Sans culottes marched on Convention demanding lower bread prices and higher wages
5th September 1793
127
Revolutionary Army formed
9th September 1793
128
Law of Suspects
17th September 1793
129
Law of General Maximum
29th September 1793
130
Popular Terror
September - December 1793
131
Dechristianisation made a policy
October 1793
132
Beginning of show trials
October 1793
133
Marie Antoinette brought before Revolutionary Tribunal
14th October 1793
134
Marie Antoinette executed
16th October 1793
135
21 expelled Girondins guillotined in 36 minutes
31st October 1793
136
Exectution of duc d’Orleans
6th November 1793
137
Archbishop of Paris sported bonnet rouge and resigned
7th November 1793
138
Closure of all churches in Paris
November 1793
139
Law of 14 Frimaire II
4th December 1793
140
Army of the Vendee destroyed
December 1793
141
Coup de Thermidor
July 1794
142
Law of 14 Frimaire
4th December 1793
143
First Law of Ventose
January 1794
144
Arrest and executions of Herbertists and Indulgents
March 1794
145
Danton and Desmoulins executed
5th April 1794
146
When did the Terror come to an abrupt end?
July 1794
147
When was the Law of 22 Prairial?
10th June 1794
148
Armistice of Cherasco (Sardinia left First coalitio)
April 1796
149
NB’s advance into Austrian Empire dictated peace terms to the Archduke Charles
April 1797
150
Treaty of Campo Formio (Austria withdraws from First Coalition)
October 1797
151
British naval victories against French allies at Cape St Vincent and Camperdown
October 1797
152
Battle of the Nile
August 1798
153
Siege of Acre
June 1799
154
War of Second Coalition
1798/99
155
Rhine campaign
September to February 1797
156
Vendemiare Rising
October 1795
157
Babeuf Plot
Spring 1796
158
Brottier Plot
Jan 1797
159
Oath to defend the constitution
Mar 1796
160
Mandats introduced
Feb 1796
161
Metal coins became only legal currency
February 1797
162
Weights and measures standardised
1795
163
Reorganisation of taxation system
1798
164
Ramen renounced 2/3 of France’s national debt by a one-off bond payment
September 1797
165
Early Royalist threat
1795-96
166
Coup de fructidor
September 1797
167
Coup de Floreal
May 1798
168
Coup de Prairial
June 1798
169
Two Thirds Law
August 1795=
170
Coup de Brumaire
9th/10th November 1799
