French Revolution: Women's RIghts Timeline

Louis XV died

May 10, 1774

Revolutionary Paris

Period: Jan 22, 1789 to Jan 22, 1796

Estates General first conevenes

May 5, 1789

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Louis-Joseph Dauphin of France Dies

Jun 4, 1789

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Tennis Court Oath

Jun 20, 1789

Storming of the Bastille

Jul 14, 1789

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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Aug 26, 1789

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Declaration and Demands

Period: Aug 26, 1789 to Oct 5, 1789

March to Versailles

Oct 5, 1789

Stanislaus Millard Describes the March

Les Amies de la Verite began as first women's club

Mar 16, 1791

Les Amies de la Verite was begun as the first all female women’s club, started by Etta Palm D’Aelders. This was created for assisting the poor, protection against wife beating, divorce bill, equality, elimination of primogeniture

Champ de Mars Massacre

Jul 17, 1791

Legislative Assembly Meets / Constitution Official

Oct 1, 1791

Pauline Leon and the Right to bear arms

Mar 6, 1792

Pauline Leon led a deputation of women to the Legislative Assembly and presented a petition with more than three hundred signatures demanding women’s right to bear arms. Leon claimed for women the universal natural rights to self-protection and resistance to oppression guaranteed in the Declaration of Rights of 1789.

Tricolor cockade compulsory for men

Jul 1, 1792