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Bastille stormed and taken by a Paris mob
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Peasants attack noble manors
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Nobles in National Assembly renounce feudal rights; Jacobin Club formed
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Assembly issues Declaration of the Rights of Man
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King Louis brought from Versailles to Tuileries palace in Paris
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Assembly issues Civil Constitution of the Clergy, requiring elections and oaths.
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National Assembly issues Constitution; elections are held.
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Begins by burning sugar plantations at the same moment, which was initiated and planned during voodoo ceremonies (voodoo being a religion outlawed by the French)
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King flees to Austria, is caught at Varennes.
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Austria and Prussia call for support of French King
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Convention abolishes monarchy and declares France a republic.
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The National Assembly send three commissioners to restore order in Saint-Domingue. Armed rebellion begins.
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Rochambeau appointed as governor of Haiti. Reign of terror begins in Saint Domingue.
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Haiti accidentally threatens French by sending the civil commissioner forcefully home.
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General Leclerc sails with 20,000 soldiers to attempt to retake Haiti, with Rochambeau second in command. There strategy is to pretend to be peaceful, disarm all the militants and wage war against them to cut their morale and then reinstate slavery
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Dessalines and Christophe continue the revolution. Rochambeau leads french. Yellow fever kills many of the French. The slaves win.
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A declaration of independence is created. Haitians form the world’s first black republic.
