1787
Feb 22: Assembly of Notables convened
April 8: Calonne dismissed, Brienne joins government
May 25: Assembly of Notables dissolved
Aug --: Exile of parlements of Paris and Bordeaux
1788
June/July: Noble revolt. Day of Tiles in Grenoble
August 8: Convocation of Estates-General called for May 1789
August 16: payments from treasury suspended
August 24: Brienne fired, Necker reappointed
September 25: Parlements restored. Paris Parlement declares "forms of 1614"
Oct-Dec: Second session of the Assembly of Notables
Dec. 27: Doubling of Third Estate
1789
Feb.--: Publication of Sieyes' What is the Third Estate?
May 5: Meeting of the Estates-General
June 17: National Assembly declared
June 20: Tennis Court Oath
July 11: Necker dismissed
July 14: Storming of the Bastille
late July: Great Fear sweeps countryside
August 4: Surrender of feudal rights
August 27: Declaration of the Rights of Man
October 5-6: March on Versailles, royal family brought to Paris
Nov. 2: Church property nationalized
Dec. 12: Assignats introduced
1790
July 12: Civil Constitution of the Clergy
July 14: Constitution accepted by the king; Feast of the Federation
September: Fall of Necker
1791
April 2: Death of Mirabeau
June 20-25: Flight of the King to Varennes
July 17: Champ de Mars massacre
September 30: Dissolution of Constituent Assembly
October 1: Legislative Assembly meets
1792
April 20: French declare war against Austria
April 25: first use of guillotine
June 13: Prussia declares war
June 20: Sans-culottes invade Tuilleries
July 22: "La patrie is in danger" declared
July 25: Brunswick Manifesto issued
August 10: Storming of the Tuileries , fall of the monarchy
August 19: Prussians cross French border, Lafayette defects
September 2-7: The September Massacres
September 20: Battle of Valmy
September 21: National Convention meets; Republic declared
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
March 10: Revolutionary Tribunal created
April 5: Establishment of Committee of Public Saferty
June 2: Arrest of 31 Girondist deputies
June 24: Convention accepts Consitution of 1793
July 13: Assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday
August 23: Levee en masse declared
September 5: "Terror is the order of the day" declared by government
September 17: Law of Suspects
September 29: Establishment of the Law of the Maximum
October 15: Revolutionary Calender introduced
October 16: Execution of Marie Antoinette
October 31: Execution of Girondists
November 10: Festival of cult of Reason, all Parisian churches closed
1794
Feb 4: Abolition of slavery
Feb-March: Laws of Ventose issued
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 5: Institution of wage maximums in Paris
July 27 : Fall of Robespierre (9 Thermidor)
August 24: Reorganization of government
December 8: Reinstatement of surviving Girondins
December 24 : Repeal of maximum
1795
March 5 : Treaty of Basle (Prussia withdraws from war)
April 1 : Bread riots in Paris, failed popular insurrection
May 20-23: failed uprising of Germinal
June 8 : Death of the dauphin (Louis XVII)
August 22 : Constitution of 1795
October 1: Annexation of Belgium
October 5 : Napoleon's "whiff of grape-shot," failed royalist coupe
October 26 : Convention dissolved
1796
Feb. 19: abolition of assignats
April 11: Invasion of Italy led by Napoleon
Nov. 15-18: Battle of Arcole
1797
April 18 Preliminary Peace of Leoben
July 29 : Cisalpine Republic established
September 4 : Coup d'Etat at Pari(republicans over reactionaries)
1799
Jan. 23: France annexes Naples
March 12: Austria declares war
August 24 : Napoleon leaves Egypt
November 9 : The Coup d'Etat of Brumaire (18 Brumaire)
Dec. 24: Consulate declared, Napoleon's dictatorship established
