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Diamond necklace Affair
Scandal around Marie Antoinette greatly affecting her popularity -
Calonne's tries to push ambitious fiscal reforms
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Poor Harvest
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Period: to
Nobles Revolt
Huge revolt of first the Parliament of Paris but then the regional too -
Poor Harvest
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French Monarchy declares itself in bankruptcy
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Parliament of Paris rules on voting for Estates-General
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King agrees to double number of Third Estate
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More than 50k offices in circulation
French royal bonds -
Abbé Sieyès publishes "What is the Third Estate"
30000 copies in 4 weeks -
Opening Estates-General
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Creation of National Assembly
Motivated by Sieyès -
Tennis hall Oath
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King announces substantial reforms
Promise to call regularly estates general
Abolishes tax on land and labor tax and eliminates the "lettres de cachet"
Voting system of the Estates-General is now per head -
King forces two others estates to Join the third
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National Assembly becomes Constituent
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Necker sacked
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Bastille day
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King Louis visits Paris
Accepts wearing a three-color emblem -
Period: to
Great Fear
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Abolition of feudalism
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Declaration of the Rights of man and of the Citizen
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Marat founds "The friend of the People"
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Election of the Legislative Assembly
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Clergy property becomes state's
Motion pushed by Talleyrand -
Women's March on Versailles
Ends on 6th of October with the Return of the King to Paris -
Abolition of Religious Orders
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Declares peace to the world
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Civil constitution of the French Clergy
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"Fête de la fédération"
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Pope condemns Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Quod aliquantum -
Le Chapelier Law
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King Louis Caught in Varennes
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Champ de Mars Massacre
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Rebellion of the 'Maroon Negroes'
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Declaration of Pillnitz
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French Constitution accepted
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Olympes de Gouges publishes "The right of Women"
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Mary Wollstonecraft publishes "Vindication of the Rights of Women"
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France Declares war on Austria
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Period: to
First Coalition
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Crowd storms into the Tuileries
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"La Patrie est en danger"
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Brunswick Manifesto
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Delegation from the City of Paris asks for the king to be deposed
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Fall of Monarchy
Crowd storms into Tuileries and King escapes for Assembly = 600 Swiss Guards and servants killed after they had surrendered -
Period: to
Commune insurrectionnelle de Paris
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Début insurrection en Vendée
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Prussian Armies entered France and captured Verdun
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Period: to
September Massacres
1200 people killed without any form of Justice -
Battle of Valmy
Goethe is amazed by the fact common people defeated professional soldiers because they loved what they were fighting for -
Election of the Convention
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First Republic Proclaimed
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Creation of the Committee of General Security
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"Fraternity and assistance to all people who want to recover their liberties"
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Period: to
King Louis Trial
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Abolition of Feudalism in occupied territories
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5000 clubs politiques en France
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King Louis' death
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Creation of the Revolutionary Tribunal
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Law about immediate trial without Jury
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Law of Maximum
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Creation of Committee of Public Safety
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Santhonax Decree in Saint Domingue
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Marat's Assassination
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Mass conscription
from 25 to 35 -
Beginning of the Terror
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Law of Suspects
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Law of General Maximum
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Decide to create a new republican Calendar
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Lyon fell to Jacobins
After being controlled by Girondins -
Marie Antoinette beheaded
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Danton Killed
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Festival of the Supreme Being
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Loi of Prairial
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Victory at Fleurus
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Fall of Robespierre
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Bale Treaty with Prussia
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Royalist insurrection in Paris
Crushed by Bonaparte -
Creation of the Directory
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Period: to
1st Campaign of Italy
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Babeuf arrested
For trying to overthrow the regime -
Coup of 18 Fructidor by 3 Directors
Against Royalist Majority and 2 Directors -
Treaty of Campo Fiomo
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Jourdan Law on Conscription
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Period: to
Second Coalition
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18th Brumaire Napoleon to power