Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year. It's hard to believe that 2013 is upon us. Where did the 1st semester go? Now that we are back into the swing of our school groove, it's time to really turn it on. We have so much to learn and I am very excited about continuing on with the rest of our journey. My last post asked you how Louis XVI was connected to the French Revolution and this week I look forward to teaching you about that connection.
We will break down the revolution into three parts. I am presenting you with Part I. Bonus points for the first person to print this timeline off and place in their World Civ. Notebook. Good Luck
Principal Dates and Time Line of the
French Revolution
First phase: Harvests have failed and starvation stalks France, the
peasantry are in open and continuing revolt across the country.
June-July 1788:
Insurrection at Grenoble.
8th August 1788:
Louis XVI convokes État-général on suggestion of former finance minister
Jacques Necker, to hear grievances.
5th May 1789: Opening
of the État-général at Versailles.
17th June 1789:
Representatives of the tiers état form a National Assembly swearing not to
leave until a new constitution is established.
23rd June 1789: King
rejects Resolutions of the tiers etat.
9th July 1789:
National Assembly declares itself Constituent Assembly.
12th July 1789:
Necker is dismissed. 50,000 citizens arm themselves with pikes and form
National Guard.
14th July 1789: Armed
citizens storm and capture the Bastille.
15th July 1789:
Lafayette appointed Commander of National Guard.
17th July 1789:
‘Great Fear’ begins as peasants revolt across France.
5-11 August 1789:
National Assembly decrees abolition of feudalism.
26th August 1789:
National Assembly decrees Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
5th October 1789:
Women lead delegation to King in Versaille demanding bread. After scuffles,
they are fobbed off by the King.
6th October 1789:
King returns to Paris.
2nd November 1789:
Constituent Assembly decrees expropriation of Church property.
16th December 1789:
National Assembly legislates for departments, etc.
28th January 1790:
Removal of civil disabilities against Jews.
13th February 1790:
Suppression of religious orders and vows.
19th June 1790:
Abolition of nobility and titles.
14th July 1790: Civil
Constitution, subordinating the Church to the civil government, inaugurated by
Louis XVI.
18th August 1790:
First counter-revolutionary assembly at Jalès.
30th January 1791:
Mirabeau elected President of the French Assembly.
2nd March 1791:
Abolition of Royal guilds and monopolies.
15th May 1791: Black
citizens of French colonies granted equal rights.
21st June 1791: Louis
XVI attempts to flee to Varennes but is recognised and forcibly returned to
Paris.
15th July 1791:
Assembly declares King inviolable and restores his prerogatives.
17th July 1791:
National Guard fires on crowd protesting against restoration of the King.
13th September 1791:
King formally accepts Constitution.
30th September 1791:
Constituent Assembly dissolves.
1st October 1791:
Legislative Assembly commences.
9th November 1791:
Civil marriage and divorce instituted. Assembly orders all émigrés to return
under pain of death.
11th November 1791:
King vetoes Assembly’s ruling on émigrés.
January-March 1791:
Food riots across Paris.
9th February 1791:
Property of émigrés forfeited.
20th April 1792:
France declares war on Austria, but French army flees at sight of the enemy.
20th June 1792:
Jacobin Insurrection, again thwarted by gestures by the King, but Jacobins
continue to defy the Assembly.
25th July 1792: Duke
of Brunswick publishes call for allied attack on France.
10th August 1792:
Jacobin masses storm the Tuileries Palace, massacring the Swiss Guard, and the
King imprisoned.
19th August 1792:
Lafayette flees to Austria.
22nd August 1792:
Royalist riots in the Vendée, Britanny; armies suffer setbacks at Langwy and
Verdun.
