Chronology of the French Revolution

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DIRECTIONS:

Although you may draw your information and answers from any sources, I suggest that you
use the textbook, pages 197 to 203 to do the following task.

On a separate piece of paper
choose any 4 of the 5 years listed below and
briefly describe the events connected with any two of the dates in each of the years
that you choose

1789

May 5: Meeting of the Estates-General

June 17: National Assembly declared

June 20: Tennis Court Oath

July 14: Storming of the Bastille

August 4: Surrender of feudal rights

August 27: Declaration of the Rights of Man

October 5-6: Outbreak of the Paris mob; Liberal monarchical constitution

1790

July 14: Constitution accepted by the king;

July -- : Growing power of the clubs;

July -- : Reorganization of Paris

September: Fall of Necker

1791

June 20-25: Flight of the King

September 30: Dissolution of Constituent Assembly

August 27: Declaration of Pillnitz (William II and Lepold II)

1792

Spring: Alliance of Austria and Prussia

April 20: French declare war against Austria

August 10: Storming of the Tuileries

September 2-7: The September Massacres

September 21: National Convention meets; Abolition of the monarchy

December: Trial of Louis XVI before the Convention

1793

January 21: Execution of Louis XVI

February 1: War declared against Britain, Holland, Spain

March -- : Royalist revolt in the Vendée

Summer -- : Power centered in two committees; Committee of Public Security

June 2: Arrest of 31 Girondist deputies

July 13: Assassination of Marat

October 16: Execution of Marie Antoinette

October 31: Execution of Girondists

The primary source for the timeline listing came from:
Rempel,Gerhard . "Chronology of the French Revolution." Rempel courses. 4 July 1999. Department of History, Western New England College. 24 November 1999. <http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/frenchrev.html>.

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