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- 1789
- May 5: The Estates General opens at Versailles
- June 17: The Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly
- June 20:
The Tennis Court Oath
- July 14:
Fall of the Bastille
- Late July: The Great Fear spreads in the countryside
- August 4: The nobles surrender their feudal rights in a meeting of the
National Constituent Assembly
- August 27: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
- October 5-6: Parisian women march to Versailles and force Louis XVI and
his family to return to Paris
- 1790
- July 12: Civil Constitution of the Clergy adopted
- July 14: The king accepts a new constitution
- 1791
- June 20-24: Louis XVI and his family attempt to flee France and are
stopped at Varennes
- August 27: The Declaration of Pillnitz
- October 1: The Legislative Assembly meets
- 1792
- April 20: France declares war on Austria
- August 10: The Tuileries palace is stormed, and Louis XVI takes refuge
with the Legislative Assembly
- September 2-7: The September Massacres
- September 20: France wins the battle of Valmy
- September 21: The monarchy is abolished
- 1793
- January 21: Louis XVI is executed
- February 1: France declares war on Great Britain
- March: Counterrevolution breaks out in the Vendee
- April: The Committee of Public Safety is formed
- June 22: The Constitution of 1793 is adopted. It is not put into effect.
- August 23: Levee en masse proclaimed
- September 17: Maximum prices set on food and other commodities
- October 16: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed
- November 10: The Cult of Reason is proclaimed. The revolutionary
calendar is adopted
- 1794
- March 24: Execution of the Hebertist leaders of the sans-culottes
- April 6: Execution of Danton
- May 7: Cult of the Supreme Being proclaimed
- June 8: Robespierre leads the celebration of the Festival of the Supreme
Being.
- June 10: The Law Of 22 Prairial is adopted
- July 27: The Ninth of Thermidor and the fall of Robespierre
- July 28: Robespierre is executed
- 1795
- August 22: The Constitution of the Year Ill is adopted, establishing the
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