March 1780: Charles Darnay is tried for treason; a resemblence between Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton is found

Summer 1780: Marquis St. Evremonde runs over child with carriage; Marquis is found murdered the next morning

Summer 1781: Carton promises Lucie that he will "embrace any sacrifice" for her

Summer 1781: Lucie Manette and Charles Darnay are married

1783: Little Lucie Darnay is born

July 1789: The start of the French Revolution, the Bastille is stormed

August 1792: Charles goes to Paris in order to help Gabelle; taken prisioner

September 1792: Lucie and her father go to Paris to try to help Charles

December 1793: Sydney Carton switch places with Charles Darnay, sacrificing his life out of the love he had for Lucie and her happiness

April-May 1775: "Flour War"

June 1789: National Assembly declared-Third Estate; Tennis Court Oath

July 1789: Storming of the Bastille

August 1789: Surrender of feudal rights-- abolitioin of feudalism; Declaration of the Rights of Man

October 1789: Women's march on Versailles; royal family brought to Paris

April 1792: First use of the guillotine

August 1792: Storming of the Tuileries, fall of monarchy/Louis XVI arrested

September 1792: September Massacres; Republic declared

December 1792: Trial of Louis XVI

January 1793: Execution of Louis XVI

July 1973: Assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday

September 1973: REIGN OF TERROR begins

October 1973: Execution of Marie Antoinette

July 1974: Fall of Robespierre

August 1974: Thermidorian reaction begins

April 1795: Bread riots in Paris

November 1799: Napoleon seizes power