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Judicial reforms partly abolishing the power of parliaments to review legislation are forced through the parlements by Lamoignon in a lit de justice timed to coincide with military sessions
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The Third Estate delegates declare themselves to be the National Assembly.
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The Bastille, a large fortress, prison and armoury in eastern Paris, is besieged and stormed by revolutions. Several officials, including Bastille governor de Launay and finance minister Foulon, are murdered.
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The National Assembly begins to dismantle seigneurialism, with many nobles voluntarily surrendering their own feudal dues. These reforms are enacted by the August Decrees.
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The National Assembly passes the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.
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Parisian citizens, including large numbers of women, march on Versailles and menace the royal family.The royal family and the National Assembly agree to leave Versailles for Paris.
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The first release of assignats is circulated. The National Assembly approves further printings.Legal and commercial restrictions on Jews are officially lifted.
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Monastic vows were forbidden and all ecclesiastical orders and congregations were dissolved, excepting those devoted to teaching children and nursing the sick.
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The National Assembly decrees the abolition of all noble ranks and titles
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The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed by the National Assembly.
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The Fete de la Federation, a celebration of the revolution and the first anniversary of the fall of the Bastille, takes place in Paris.
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The parlements are formally abolished
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Royalists and emigres gathered at Jales in southern France form the first counter-revolutionary assembly.
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The publication of Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. A number of counter-revolutionary riots break out in the city of Lyons.
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A National Assembly decree requires all clergymen to swear an oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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The National Assembly passes the Le Chapelier Law, prohibiting worker unions, associations and strikes.
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The royal family attempts to flee Paris to a loyalist stronghold in Montmedy but are intercepted and arrested at Varennes.
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Louis XVI and the royal family are returned to Paris under guard.
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Louis XVI formally ratifies the Constitution of 1791.
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The National Assembly issues a decree abolishing slavery in France, though not in its colonies.
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The National Assembly is dissolved, after passing a self-denying ordinance that prevents its members from sitting in the new Legislative Assembly.
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The National Assembly issues a decree abolishing slavery in France, though not in its colonies.
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The Girondin majority in the Legislative Assembly declares war on Austria.
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The first session of the National Convention votes unanimously to abolish the monarchy.The National Convention votes to introduce a decimalised revolutionary calendar, beginning with Year I of the First Republic.
