Key Events of the French Revolution — Crozier On Stuff

Key Events of the French Revolution

What caused the French Revolution 1756-1789?

American War of Independence

Diamond Necklace affair

Assembly of Notables

Reveillon Riots

The Hope of Compromise 1789-1790

Estates General

Tennis Court Oath

Storming of the Bastille

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Night of 4th August 1789

March on Versailles

Festival of Federation

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

The End of Compromise 1791 to August 1792

Flight to Varennes

Champs de Mars Massacre

Haitian Revolution begins

Pillnitz Declaration

Louis XVI accepts Constitution of 1791

Declaration of War against Austria 20th April 1792

Le Marseillaise first heard in the streets of Paris

Demonstration in the Tuileries Palace

Brunswick Manifesto

Day of 10th of August 1792

The Terror August 1792 to 1794

September Massacres

Trial of Louis XVI

Execution of Louis XVI

Wide spread revolt occurs in the Vendée

Rebellion breaks out in Marseilles

Lyon Federalist Rebellion

Revolt in Toulon starts

Law of suspects

General maximum introduced

Marie Antoinette is executed

Revolutionary calendar introduced

Constitution of 1793 postponed as Revolutionary Government declared

Festival of the Supreme Being

Law of 22 Prairial Year

Battle of Fleurus

The Directory and the Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte

Germinal rising

Constitution of 1795

Vendemiaire coup