Hist 143, Tooley
Informational
Focus Sheet--The French Revolution
(note: dates by the names of monarchs are the dates they reigned,
not the dates they were born)
1763--Crushing defeat of France in the Seven Years War.
1774--Louis XVI comes to power in France.
1777--France assists the American colonies in their revolutionary war.
1780s--Bad weather, economic hardship in France.
1787--Louis calls Assembly of Notables.
1788-9--Calling of Estates General and collection of cahiers de
doléance.
May 1789--Estates General meets.
20 June 1789--Tennis Court Oath: the Third Estate declares it
will not disband until there is a
Constitution.
14 July 1789--Storming of the Bastille.
27 Aug 1789--Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
5-6 Oct.--"Mothers March for Bread": King and family taken to
Paris.
July 1790--Constitution accepted by the king (including Civil Const. of
the Clergy).
April 1791--Flight of the Royal Family; capture at Varennes.
April 1792--France declares war on Austria and Prussia.
Sept. 1792--September Massacres; Danton: "deal with the enemies
within."
21 Sept. 1792--Abolition of the monarchy.
Jan 1793--Execution of Louis XVI.
April 1793--Committee of Public Safety set up: Danton,
Robespierre, St. Just, etc. in charge.
Aug 1793--Levée en mass.
Summer 1793-July 1794--Reign of Terror.
Oct. 1793--Execution of Marie Antoinette.
Nov. 1793--Radical measures of the Terror: Abolition of the
worship of God: new Cult of Reason.
Revolutionary calendar.
April 1794--Execution of Danton.
June 1794--Festival of Supreme Being.
27 July 1794--Thermidorean Reaction: Fall of Robespierre, End of
Terror.
1794-95--Creation of Sister Republics/Satellite States.
Also, creation of the Directory.
1796-7--Rise of Napoleon as head of the Italian campaign.
1798-99--Napoleon's Egyptian expedition.
Nov. 1799--Napoeon's coup d'état: Napoleon leads the
Consulate, 1799-1804.
1801--Concordat with the Pope.
1804--Napoleon takes the throne of Emporer of France.
1805-7--Defeat of Austria and smashing defeat of Prussia:
Continental System, reorganization of Germany, and
Treaty of Tilsit with the Russians (Alexander I).
1812--Invasion of Russia.
1814--Napoleon defeated by Britain, Prussia, Austria, etc.
Napoleon exiled to become Prince of Elba.
Sept. 1814--Congress of Vienna convenes.
1 March 1815--22 June 1815--One Hundred Days: this ends with the
Battle of Waterloo.
Napoleon abdicates and is sent to the South Atlantic Island of St.
Helena; Congress of Vienna concludes its work, 1815