French Revolution

By szydlikm

  • Louis XVI Inherits the French Throne

  • Bread Riots Begin

    A severe grain shortage. caused by famine, which lasts for several years and is considered one of the causes of the French Revolution, results in riots.

  • Bread Riots Subdued

    Riots are subdued brutally and without ultimately fixing the problem.

  • 1st Assembly of Notables Meets

  • 1st Assembly of Notables Is Dissolved

  • Day of Tiles

    Revolt over the suppression of the parlements: the courts.

  • France Declares Bankruptcy

  • 2nd Assemby of Notables Called

  • 2nd Assembly of Notables Dismissed

  • Estates-General Called

  • Formation of the National Assembly

  • Period: to

    French Revolution

  • National Guard Formed

  • Storming of the Bastille

  • August Decrees Adopted

    This set of decrees essentially abolished feudalism and stripped the nobles of their fancy privileges.

  • Adoption of "The Declaration of the Rights of Man"

  • Nobility Abolished by National Assembly

  • Royal Family's Flight to Varennes and Capture

  • Institution of the Legislative Assembly

  • Storming of Tuileries and Arrest of the King

  • Legislative Assembly Dissolved

  • Louis XIV's Trial

  • Louis XVI's Execution

  • Committee of Public Safety Established

  • Robespierre Elected to the Committee of Public Safety

  • Levee en Masse

  • Period: to

    Reign of Terror

  • Proclamation of the 1st French Republic

  • Marie Antoinette Guillotined

  • Law of Government Power Passed and the Committee of Public Safety Becomes the Government

  • Revolutionary Tribunal Now Requires No Witnesses

  • Thermadorian Reaction

    This is the revolt against the rule of the radical Jacobins and particularly the dictator Robespierre. It resulted in him being guillotined and the end of the Reign of Terror.

  • Constitution of Year III Adopted: Directorate Established

  • Napoleon's Coup D'Etat Ends the Directorate

    This is widely regarded as the end of the French Revolution, though it is also common to view Napoleon's Reign as part of the Revolution. This timeline chooses to view Napoleon's acceptance of the Constitution as the end of the bloody Revolution and a return to a monarchist style of rule.

  • Napoleon Accepts the Constitution of the Year VIII