Timeline of the French Revolution: The failure of compromise 1791-1792
1791
February 28: Day of Daggers where Lafayette orders the dispersal of four hundred aristocrats who have assembled to protect the King at the Tuileries Palace.
March 2: The National Constituent Assembly dissolves the Guilds.
April 2: Mirabeau dies on the 4th his body is taken to the newly created Pantheon.
April 18: The royal family attempt their annual trip to Saint Cloud to celebrate Easter a crowd refuses to let them progress. The National Guard refuse to follow Lafayette’s orders to make the crowd disperse.
May 16: Robespierre proposes that no members of the National Constituent Assembly should be allowed to stand for election to the Legislative Assembly
Cartoon mocking Royal Family's Flight to Varennes
June 15: The Assembly forbids priests to wear ecclesiastical costumes outside churches.
June 20–21: The Royal family escape Paris by coach only to be recognised and captured at Varennes. They are returned to Paris.
July 9: The National Constituent Assembly decrees that émigrés must return to France within two months they will lose their property.
July 16: It is accepted in the National Constituent Assembly that the King is inviolable and the accepted view that he was abducted in the Flight to Varennes. His temporary suspension will end if he accepts the constitution.
July 16: The Jacobin club splits and the more moderate Feuillants are created.
Champ De Mars Massacre
August: Slave uprising in Saint Domingue (Haiti)
August 27: Declaration of Pillnitz
September 14: Louis XVI formally accepts the new Constitution.
September 27: Abolishment of slavery in France but not the colonies.
September 29: The National Constituent Assembly rules that a certain level of taxes must be paid if people wished to become members of the National Guard.
October 1: First day of the new Legislative Assembly.
October 14: Louis issues a proclamation calling for the return of his brothers to France.
November 9: The Legislative Assembly demands that all Émigrés return to France on pain of death. Louis vetoes the the declaration.
November 25: Creation of the Committee of public surveillance
1792
23 January: Due to the slave uprising in Saint Domingue there are sugar and coffee and shortages leading to riots in Paris.
9 February: The Legislative Assembly passes a decree that all property of émigrés is now confiscated for the good of the revolution.
March: Creation of Girondin ministry.
20 April: The Legislative Assembly declares war on the King of Bohemia and Hungary for example Austria.
27 May: Non-juring i.e those who have not sworn the oath are ordered to be deported by the Legislative Assembly. This is later vetoed by Louis XVI.
8 June: Proposal for the creation of a camp for 20,000 fédérés (soldiers from across France) is vetoed by the King.
The storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 20th June 1792
13 June: The King removes the Girondin ministers and appoints mainly Feuillants in their place
June 19: Louis XVI vetoes the laws on the deportation of priests and the formation of a new army outside Paris.
June 28: Lafayette demands in the Legislative Assembly that political groups like the Jacobins need to be suppressed.
July 11: La patrie en danger (nation in danger) is announced as national emergency is declared. National Guard are introduced into the French army.
July 25: The Brunswick Manifesto is issued causing outrage in Paris
July 30: Passive citizens are allowed to join the National Guard
August 1: Fédérés from Marseille arrive in Paris singing a new revolutionary song which is christened La Marseillaise.
August 3: Petition from forty seven of the forty eight sections of Paris call for the removal of the King. The Legislative Assembly state they will discuss the issue on the 9th of the month.
August 9: Danton and his allies create a Revolutionary Paris commune.
