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NCA debate on voting on voting rights
The question of 'active citizens' and 'passive citizens' -
The Decree Nationalizing Church Property
Passing the Decree on Church Lands and declaring that all ecclesiastical lands are "at the disposal of the nation." -
NCA suspend parlements
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NCA relocates to Tuileries Palace
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Religious Freedoms to Protestants
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NCA reforms provincial government
Creating 83 new departements -
NCA sell church lands
Approves first release of 400 million assignats -
Lettres de cachet formally abolished
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The Gabelle tax is suspended
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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NCA remove all noble ranks and titles
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NCA impose new Legal structure
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Exposition of Principles
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The Clerical Oath
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New financial system established
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Mirabeau elected president of NCA
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The Day of Daggers
400 armed nobles invade Tuileries to protect the King
Nobles disarmed by Lafayette and National Guard -
Death of Mirabeau
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Papal Bulls Charitas
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The Saint-Cloud Incident
Royal family prevented from leaving Tuileries -
Self-denying Ordinance passed
Preventing deputies from standing for election in Legislative Assembly -
NCA passed Le Chapelier Law
Forbid trade unions, collective bargaining, picketing and strikes -
The Flight to Varennes
Royal Family attempt to flee Paris to Montmedy -
NCA suspend the King
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Royal family return to Paris
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Padua Circular
Calling on all European monarchs to protect royal family -
NCA rule on the King
Was an abduction. Restore his status and privileges, provided he endorses constitution -
The Champ de Mars Massacre
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Slave Uprisings in Saint Domingue
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Declaration of Pillnitz
Rulers of Prussia and Austria affirm support for Louis XVI -
Elections for Legislative Assembly Commence
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Religious Freedom to Jews
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King ratifies Constitution of 1791
Swears an oath of allegiance to new state -
Slavery Abolished in France
Not in the colonies -
NCA dissolved
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LA meets for the first time
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LA order on Emigres
They must return to France "under pain of death"
Those who didn't, will have their land confiscated by the state -
Louis vetoes November 9th Decree
On emigres return -
Jérôme Pétion elected as mayor of Paris
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LA order on Refractory Priests
All to be arrested -
King issues Ultimatum
Towards Prussia and Austria -
LA declares beginning of 'Era of Liberty'
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Food Riots break out in Paris
Will continue and recur sporadically for next 2 months -
LA decree on emigres property
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The Guillotine was approved
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King appoints Girondins
In charge of the War Ministry -
King's and LA declaration of war
Louis asks to declare war on Austria, Hungary and Bohemia -
Theobald Dillions murder
Military troops murder their general before fighting the enemy -
Decree on Federes
Enlisted 20,000 men to be stationed within districts of Paris -
Prussia declares War on France
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King dismisses Jean-Marie Roland
The interior minister dismissal creates tensions between King and LA -
Lafayette asks to outlaw Jacobin club
The request is denied by LA -
The First Invasion of the Tuileries
Demanding he withdraw his veto
Pressured to wear red liberty cap and publicly humiliated -
Passive citizens enter NG
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Declaration of "La Patrie en danger"
Government given emergency powers -
The Brunswick Manifesto
Threatening Paris with destruction if King is harmed -
All citizens are issued pikes
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Insurrectionary Commune in charge
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The Second Invasion of the Tuileries
Organized crowd of 20,000 massacre 800 swiss guards and unknown ordinary -
Warrant for arrest of Lafayette
Danton dismisses him as commander of National Guard -
Formation of "Extraordinary tribunal'
Forerunner to revolutionary tribunals -
Royalist riots in Vendee, Brittany and Dauphine
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All priests ordered to take oath
Oath to the government or face deportation -
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September Massacres
Vast majority killed are imprisoned royalists and clergyman -
LA dissolved
To be replaced by National Convention -
Abolishment of monarchy
NC vote unanimously -
NC declare Year 1 of the Republic
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Decree Fraternity
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Trial of Louis begins
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NC vote on fate of King
All 693 deputies find him guilty
424 to 283 on no appeal -
NC sentences Louis to death
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Louis XVi is executed
By guillotine in place de la Revolution in Paris -
NC declare war on Grand Coalition
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NC abolish slavery in all colonies
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Formation of First/Grand Coalition
Consisting of Britain, Austria, Prussia, Holland, Spain and Sardinia -
Tricolor adopted as national flag
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NC orders conscription
Of 300,000 men between 18-40 to army -
The First Revolutionary Tribunal is created
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The beginning of Vendee uprising
Rebels angered by conscription, attacks on clergy and execution of the King -
Herbet and followers are executed
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Committee of Public Safety is established
A12-man emergency committee with wide ranging powers -
The Duke of Orleans arrested
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NC vote to impeach Marat
Over allegations he published material calling for violent insurrection -
Marat is acquitted by RT
RT-Revolutionary Tribunal -
Sans culotte and NG march on NC
Convention orders expulsion and arrest of 29 Girondin deputies -
The First Maximum Price Law
Fixing the price of grain -
Sans culotte demonstrations
Demanding removal of Girondins, purge of government bodies, voting rights and fixed bread prices -
Jacobin Constitution ratified
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Marat's murder
Stabbed to death by Charlotte Corday -
Murder of Lyon, Jacobin mayor
Executed by moderate counter-revolutionaries -
Robespierre and Louis Saint-Just elected to COPS
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NC adopt metric system
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Revolutionary forces lay siege in Lyon
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All public officials required to take oath
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Terror "order of the day"
Sans-culotte march on NC
NC expand Revolutionary Tribunals -
Law of Suspects
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Law of Maximum
To regulate food supplies -
NC formally adopts Revolutionary calendar
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Lyon falls to revolutionaries
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NC declares emergency War
Implementation of the Constitution of 1793 is suspended -
Marie Antoinette is guillotined
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Execution of Girodins begin
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The Duke of Orleans is executed
Philippe Égalité -
All Paris churches closed
Notre Dame renamed Temple of Reason -
Law of 14 Frimare
Centralized power and consolidated under COPS -
Danton is arrested
For alleged corruption -
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Danton, Desmoulins and supporters executed
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Robespierre's proposal for Cult of Supreme Being
Speech delivered at NC -
Robespierre is elected as president of NC
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Festival of Supreme Being
Celebrated at Champ de Mars -
Law of 22 Prairial
Increasing power of tribunals, removing rights of defendants and declaring all penalties punishable by death -
Robespierre's attack
Addresses NC and launches attack on opponents
Several opponents expelled from Jacobin club -
Robespierre's opponents attack back
Orchestrate his deposition and arrest -
Robespierre, Saint-Just, Couthon and others executed
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Law of 22 Prairial repealed
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Beginning of White Terror
Purges and persecution of Jacobins -
Government orders mass release of political prisoners
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COPS stripped of executive powers
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NC renounces "Constitutional Church" and Cult of Supreme Being
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All Jacobin clubs ordered to close
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Surviving Girondin deputies reinstated
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NC repeals Law of General Maximum
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Series of Peace treaties
Seeking to wind down the revolutionary war -
Bread Riots erupt in Paris
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Revolutionary Tribunals formally abolished
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Constitution of 1795 passed
Outlining new system of government including 5-man executive (The Directory) and a bicameral assembly (The Council of Elders and Council of 5 Hundred) -
Thermidorian Convention
Ends with the dissolution of National Convention