Brienne sends edicts for tax reform legislation to the parlements for registration.
Louis orders the parlements to pass the reforms. Lit de justice.
Publication of Sieyes ‘What is the Third Estate’.
The Assembly of the Notables is in session.
The Assembly of the Notables disolves.
The Estates General is officially summoned.
Drawing up of the Book of Grievances and election of Deputies. Begins.
The Reveillon Riots.
The Estates General opens at Versailles.
The Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
The Tennis Court Oath.
Storming of the Bastille.
The crowds murder Foulon and Berthier.
The Peasants revolt and the Great Fear spreads.
Night of ‘Patriotic Delirium’.
The August Decrees.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.
Women’s March to Versailles- King, royal family and National Assembly move to Paris.
Reforms to the governing system (83 departments).
Creation of the Pairs sections.
Abolition of the Nobility.
Civil Constitution of the Clergy is decreed.
July 14: Feast of the Federation.
The Oath of the Clergy passed; all clergy must swear an oath to the constitution.
The King and Royal family are prevented from leaving Paris.
Flight to Varennes, King and Queen attempt to flee.
Massacre at the Champs de Mars.
The King accepts the new constitution and King swears the oath of allegiance to the new constitution.
The National Assembly is dissolved.
The Legislative Assembly convenes.
Decree against the emigres.
Committees of Surveillance created.
War declared against Austria. Prussia allies itself with Austria.
Assembly passes new law against refractory priests.
The Sans-Culottes invade Tuileries and humiliate the King.
Tuileries is stormed and the monarchy overthrown. The Legislative Assembly votes for the creation of a National Convention to create a new constitution.
The Extraordinary tribunal established to try counter revolutionaries.
September Massacres.
National Convention convenes for the first time.
France proclaimed a republic.
Committee of General Security created.
Louis XVI's trial begins.
Louis XVI is found guilty by a unanimous vote and Louis XVI is condemned to death.
