Timeline of the French Revolution

The following is a timeline of the French Revolution.

Events preceding but pertinent to the French Revolution

Throughout the era

The centuries-old opposition of privileged bodies and castes to royal absolutism.
The Enlightenment leads many European writers to criticize the absolute monarchy and espouse democratic, liberalist, nationalist, and socialist ideas.
The power of the French nobility erodes with the emergence of a powerful bourgeoisie.
Wars compound the debt situation and increase taxation.
Food shortages occur due to poor harvests, economic deregulation and market manipulations.

Ascension of Louis XVI amid financial crisis

1774

May 10: Louis XVI, age nineteen, ascends to the throne as the state nears bankruptcy.
Summer: Poor grain harvests for the second year in a row raise the price of bread by winter.
August 24: Louis dismisses his minister Maupeou who tried to reform the provincial parlements which were the spearheads of the aristocracy's resistance to the Crown's absolutism and centralization efforts.
August 24: Louis appoints Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot as controller-general of the finances. He notably liberalized grain commerce which resulted in an increase in bread prices.

1775

April 18: Due to an increase in grain prices, bread riots known as the Flour War began in Dijon and spread.
May 2–3: Flour War rebels demonstrate in front of the Palace of Versailles.
May 6: Government minister Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes advocates calling an estates-general to end the crisis.
May 11: By a combination of repressive measures and aid, Turgot puts down most of the bread riots.

1776

January: Turgot presents his Six Edicts calling for the abolition of privilege and the taxation of all social classes.
May 11: Turgot is dismissed after having made powerful enemies with his edicts and other policies.
October: Jacques Necker is appointed director-general of the finances. He opposes the deregulation of the grain market implemented by Turgot and stabilizes the social and financial situation in France.

1778

February 6: After years of unofficial support, France formally recognizes the United States dragging it into a war which would further increase France's debt.

1781

February: Necker publishes the Compte rendu au roi (Report to the King), a book explaining government finances in a way that, for the first time, generates public interest in the subject.
May 19: Necker resigns unable to implement his reforms and forced out by a coalition of enemies gathering Princes of the blood, financiers, provincial parliaments and the Ferme générale.

1783

November 3: Charles Alexandre de Calonne is appointed as a compromise between Turgot's liberalism and Necker's dirigism.

1785

October: Calonne, failing to end the financial crisis with credit and loans, attempts monetary reforms.

Assembly of Notables

1786

May 31: The Diamond Necklace Affair concludes with the acquittal of Cardinal Rohan and the discrediting of Marie Antoinette.
August 20: Calonne informs Louis that the royal finances are insolvent and proposes a new tax code.
December 29: The Assembly of Notables, organized by Calonne to endorse his proposals, is convoked.

1787

February 22: First Assembly of Notables meets against a background of state financial instability and general resistance by the nobility to an imposition of taxes and fiscal reforms.
March: Calonne's publication of his proposals and the intransigence of the Notables leads to a public clash and impasse.
April 8: Louis dismisses both Calonne and the keeper of the seals, or minister of justice, Miromesnil, in an attempt to break the impasse.
April 13: Louis appoints Lamoignon keeper of the seals
April 30: The Archbishop of Toulouse and vocal leader of the higher clergy, Loménie de Brienne is appointed chief minister of state.
May 25: The first Assembly of Notables is dissolved.
June: Brienne sends edicts for tax reform legislation to the parlements for registration.
July 2: Parlement of Paris overwhelmingly rejects the royal legislation.
August 6: Legislation is passed at a lit de justice. Subsequently the parlement declares the registration illegal. Supported by public opinion, it initiates criminal proceedings against the disgraced Calonne.
August 15: Louis dismisses the Parisian parlement and orders the parlementaires to remove themselves to Troyes.
August 19: Louis orders the closure of all political clubs in Paris.
September: Civil unrest in the Dutch republic leads to its invasion by the Prussian army, and increases tensions in Paris. Brienne backs down with his legislative demands, settling for an extension of the vingtième tax, and the parlementaires are allowed to return to Paris.
November 19: A royal session of the Paris parlements for registration of new loans turns into an informal lit de justice when Louis doesn't allow a vote to be taken.
November 20: The vocal opposition of the duc d'Orléans leads to his temporary exile by lettres de cachet, and the arrest and imprisonment of two magistrates.

1788

May 6: Orders for the arrest of two Parisian parlementaires, d'Eprémesnil and Goislard, who are most implacably opposed to the government reforms, are issued; the parlement declares its solidarity with the two magistrates
May 7: d'Eprémesnil and Goislard are imprisoned
May 8: Judicial reforms partly abolishing the power of parlements to review legislation are forced through the parlements by Lamoignon in a lit de justice timed to coincide with military sessions
June 7: Day of the Tiles in Grenoble - a meeting called to assemble a parlement in defiance of government order put down by soldiers.
June: Outcry over the enforced reforms ensues, and courts across France refuse to sit
July 5: Brienne begins to consider calling an Estates-General
July 21: Meeting of the Estates of Dauphiné, known as the Assembly of Vizille and led by Jean Joseph Mounier, to elect deputies to the Estates-General, adopts measures to increase the influence of the Third Estate.
August 8: After being informed that the royal treasury is empty, Brienne sets May 1, 1789 as the date for the Estates-General in an attempt to restore confidence with his creditors
August 16: Repayments on government loans stop, and the French government effectively declares bankruptcy
August 25: Brienne resigns as Minister of Finance, and is replaced by the favored choice among the Third Estate, Jacques Necker
September: Necker releases those arrested for criticising Brienne's ministry, leading to a proliferation of political pamphlets
September 14: Malesherbes resigns
November 6: Necker convenes a second Assembly of Notables to discuss the Estates-General
December 12: The second Assembly of Notables is dismissed, having firmly refused to consider doubling the representation of the Third Estate
December 27: Prompted by public controversy, Necker announces that the representation of the Third Estate will be doubled, and that nobles and clergymen will be able to stand for the same cause.

1789

January - Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès publishes What is the Third Estate? (Qu'est-ce que le tiers-état ?).
April 28 - The Réveillon Riots in Paris, caused by low wages and food shortages, lead to about 25 deaths by troops.
May 5: The Estates-General meets for the first time since 1614.
July 14: The Storming of Bastille takes place.

Estates-General and Constituent Assembly

May 5: Meeting of the Estates-General - voting to be by Estate, not by head
May 28: The Third Estate (Tiers Etat) begins to meet on its own, calling themselves "communes" (commons)
June 4: The Dauphin of France dies
June 9: The Third Estate votes for the common verification of credentials, in opposition to the First Estate (the clergy) and the Second Estate (the nobility)
June 13: Some priests from the First Estate choose to join the Third Estate
June 17: The Third Estate (commons) declares itself to be the National Assembly
June 20: Third Estate/National Assembly are locked out of meeting houses; the Third Estate chooses to continue thinking King Louis XVI has locked them out and decides upon a declarative vow, known as the "serment au Jeu de Paume" (The Tennis Court Oath), not to dissolve until the constitution has been established
June 22: National Assembly meets in church of St Louis, joined by a majority of clergy
June 23: Two companies of French guards mutiny in the face of public unrest. Louis XVI holds a Séance Royale, puts forward his 35-point program aimed at allowing the continuation of the three estates.
June 24: 48 nobles, headed by the Duke of Orléans, side with the Third Estate. A significant number of the clergy follow their example.
June 27: Louis recognises the validity of the National Assembly, and orders the First and Second Estates to join the Third.
June 30: Large crowd storms left bank prison and frees mutinous French Guards
July 1: Louis recruits more troops, among them many foreign mercenaries
July 9: National Assembly reconstitutes itself as National Constituent Assembly
July 11: Necker dismissed by Louis; populace sack the monasteries, ransack aristocrats' homes in search of food and weapons. The king has the royal army under the duc de Broglie surround Paris. Lafayette presents a draft of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the Assembly, written by himself in consultation with Thomas Jefferson.
July 12: Camille Desmoulins announces the dismissal of Necker to the Paris crowd, incites crowd to take up arms against foreign mercenaries. The Karl Eugen, Prince von Lothringen-Lambesc appears at the Tuilleries with an armed guard - a soldier and civilian are killed.
July 13: National Guard formed in Paris, of middle class men.
July 14: Storming of the Bastille; de Launay, (the governor), Foulon (the Secretary of State) and de Flesselles (the then equivalent of the mayor of Paris), amongst others, are massacred.
July 15: Lafayette appointed Commandante of the National Guard.
July 16: Necker recalled, troops pulled out of Paris
July 17: The beginning of the Great Fear, the peasantry revolt against feudalism and a number of urban disturbances and revolts. Many members of the aristocracy flee Paris to become émigrés. Louis XVI accepts the tricolor cockade.
July 18: Publication of Desmoulins' La France libre favouring a republic and arguing that revolutionary violence is justified.
August 4: Surrender of feudal rights: The August Decrees.
August 26: The Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
September: Desmoulins publishes Discours de la lanterne aux Parisiens, a hard-edged radical pamphlet celebrating political violence and exalting the Parisian mob.
September 11: The National Assembly grants suspensive veto to Louis XVI; Louis fails to ratify the August acts of the National Assembly.
October 2: Louis XVI rejects the Declaration.
October 5–6: Outbreak of the Paris mob; Liberal monarchical constitution; the Women's March on Versailles
October 6: Louis XVI agrees to ratify the August Decrees, Palace of Versailles stormed. Soon after King Louis and the National Assembly removed to Paris.
November 2: Church property nationalised and otherwise expropriated
November: First publication of Desmoulins' weekly Histoire des Révolutions de France et de Brabant, savagely attacking royalists, aristocrats, even former friends, sometimes drawing lawsuits.
November: Moderate group called the Société des amis de la Révolution de Paris formed by Mirabeau.
December: National Assembly distinguishes between 'active' (monied) and 'passive' (property-less) citizens - only the active could vote
December 12: Assignats are used as legal tender

1790

January: Former Provinces of France replaced by new administrative Departments.
January: Jean-Paul Marat moves to the radical Cordeliers section, the Club des Cordeliers, was nearly arrested for his aggressive campaign against Lafayette, and was forced to flee to London, where he wrote his Dénonciation contre Necker ("Denunciation of Jacques Necker"), an attack on Louis XVI's popular Finance Minister.
February 13: Suppression of monastic vows and religious orders
March 5: Feudal Committee reports back to National Assembly, delaying the abolition of feudalism.
March 29: Pope Pius condemns the Declaration of the Rights of Man in secret consistory.
May: National Assembly renounces involvement in wars of conquest.
May: Marat returns to Paris.
May 12: Lafayette and Jean Sylvain Bailly institute the Society of 1789.
June 19: Nobility abolished by the National Assembly.
July 12: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy. Demands priests to take an oath of loyalty to the state, splitting the clergy between juring (oath-taking) and non-juring priests.
July: Growing power of the clubs (including: Cordeliers, Jacobin Club)
July: Reorganization of Paris
July 14: Before a huge assembly at what came to be known as the Fête de la Fédération, Lafayette took the civic oath on the Champs de Mars, vowing to "be ever faithful to the nation, to the law, and to the king; to support with our utmost power the constitution decreed by the National Assembly, and accepted by the king." This oath was taken by his troops, as well as the king.
August 16: The parlements are abolished.
September: First edition of radical newspaper Le Père Duchesne printed by Jacques Hébert.
September: Fall of Necker
December 6: National Assembly passes a decree stating that only active citizens could serve on the National Guard, due to "an article of the electoral law of October, 1789, only persons whose annual tax amounted to the equivalent of three days’ work were recognized as active citizens," restricting the right to bear arms to the middle and upper classes. Maximilien Robespierre delivers speech opposing the decree.

1791

January 1: Mirabeau elected President of the Assembly
February 28: Day of Daggers; Lafayette orders the arrest of 400 armed aristocrats at the Tuileries Palace
March 2: Abolition of trade guilds
March 10: Pope Pius VI condemns the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
April 2: Death of Mirabeau; first person to be buried in the Panthéon, formerly the Abbey of St Genevieve
April 13: Encyclical of Pope Pius VI, Charitas, condemning the Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the unauthorized appointment of Bishops is published
April 18: Louis and Marie-Antoinette prevented from travelling to Saint-Cloud for Easter
June 14: Le Chapelier Law 1791 banning trade unions is passed by National Assembly
June 20–25: Royal family's flight to Varennes
June 25: Louis XVI forced to return to Paris
June 30 Lafayette promoted to Lieutenant General.
July 5: Leopold II issues the Padua Circular calling on the royal houses of Europe to come to his brother-in-law, Louis XVI's aid.
July 14: Second anniversary of the fall of the Bastille is celebrated at the Champ de Mars.
July 15: National Assembly declares the king to be inviolable and he is reinstated.
July 16: Desmoulins appears before the Paris Commune at the head of a group petitioning for the deposition of the king.
July 17: Anti-Royalist demonstration at the Champ de Mars; National Guard kills fifty people. Arrest warrants issued for Desmoulins and Danton, the latter fleeing to England.
July: Remains of Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire reburied in Panthéon.
August 14: Slave revolts in Saint Domingue (Haiti)
April 18: The National Guard disobeyed Lafayette and stopped the king from leaving for Saint-Cloud, where he planned to attend Mass.
August 27: Declaration of Pillnitz (Frederick William II and Leopold II)
September 13–14: Louis XVI accepts the Constitution formally
September 30: Dissolution of the National Constituent Assembly

Legislative Assembly

October 1: Legislative Assembly meets - many young, inexperienced, radical deputies.
November 9 All émigrés are ordered by the Assembly to return under threat of death
November 11 Louis vetoes the ruling of the Assembly on émigrés and priests.
December 14: Lafayette received command of one of the three armies, the Army of the Centre, based at Metz.

1792

January – March: Food riots in Paris
February 7: Alliance of Austria and Prussia
March 20: Guillotine adopted as official means of execution.
April 20: France declares war against Austria
April 25: Battle Hymn of the Army of the Rhine composed by Rouget de Lisle. First execution using the guillotine.
April 28: France invades Austrian Netherlands (Belgium).
June 20: The people storm the Tuileries and confront the king.
June 28: Lafayette delivered a fiery speech before the Assembly denouncing the Jacobins and other radical groups and attempted to raise an armed mob. He was instead accused of deserting his troops, denounced by Robespierre, burned in effigy by mob.
July 5: Legislative Assembly declares that the fatherland is in danger (La Patrie en Danger).
July 25: Brunswick Manifesto - warns that should the royal family be harmed by the popular movement, an "exemplary and eternally memorable revenge" will follow.
July 12: Lafayette transferred to Army of the North.
July 30: Austria and Prussia begin invasion of France.
July: The tricolor cockade made compulsory for men to wear. La Marseillaise sung by volunteers from Marseilles on their arrival in Paris.
August 1: News of the Brunswick Manifesto reaches Paris - interpreted as proof that Louis XVI has been collaborating with the foreign Coalition.
August 9: Revolutionary commune takes possession of the hôtel de ville.
August 10–13: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Swiss Guard massacred. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody, along with his family. Georges Danton becomes Minister of Justice.
August 14: Danton puts warrant out for the arrest of Lafayette.
August 16: Paris commune presents petition to the Legislative Assembly demanding the establishment of a Revolutionary Tribunal and summoning of a National Convention.
August 19: Lafayette flees to Austria. Invasion of France by Coalition troops led by Duke of Brunswick
August 22: Royalist riots in Brittany, La Vendée and Dauphiné.
September 3: Fall of Verdun to Brunswick's troops.
September 3–7: The September Massacres of prisoners in the Paris prisons.
September 19: Dissolution of Legislative Assembly.

National Convention

September: Robespierre was elected First Deputy for Paris to the National Convention. Robespierre and his allies took the benches high at the back of the hall, giving them the label 'the Montagnards', or 'the Mountain'; below them were the 'Manège' of the Girondists and then 'the Plain' of the independents. The Girondists at the Convention accused Robespierre of failing to stop the September Massacres.
September 20: National Convention. French Army stops advance of Coalition troops at Valmy.
September 21: Abolition of royalty and proclamation of the First French Republic.
September 22: First day of the French Revolutionary Calendar (N.B.: calendar introduced in 1793).
September 26: Girondist Marc-David Lasource accuses Robespierre of dictatorial aspirations.
October 29: Louvet de Couvrai attacks Robespierre in speech, possibly written by Madame Roland.
November 5: Robespierre defended himself, the Jacobin Club and his supporters in and beyond Paris.
December 3: Louis XVI brought to trial, appears before the National Convention (11 and 23 December). Robespierre argues that "Louis must die, so that the country may live".
December 4 : A Belgian delegation is received at the National Convention to claim independence from Austria.

1793

January 21: Citizen Louis Capet (formerly known as Louis XVI) guillotined.
March 7: Outbreak of rebellion against the Revolution: War in the Vendée.
March 11: Revolutionary Tribunal established in Paris.
April 6: Committee of Public Safety established.
April 24: Marat was brought before the Tribunal on the charges that he had printed in his paper statements calling for widespread murder as well as the suspension of the Convention. He was acquitted of all charges to the riotous celebrations of his supporters.
May 24: Commission of Twelve (headed by Girondists) order arrest of Hebert, Varlet, Dobsen, and other popular militants
May 25: Paris Commune calls for release of these "patriots."
May 26: Robespierre calls for insurrection.
May 30: A revolt breaks out in Lyon, Paris Commune appoints François Hanriot to Commandant-General of the Parisian National Guard, ordered to march on the Palais National to dissolve the Commission of Twelve.
May 31: Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793
June 2: Arrest of Girondist deputies to National Convention by Jacobins.
June 10: Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety.
June 24: Ratification of new Constitution by National Convention, but not yet proclaimed. Slavery is abolished in France until 1802 (rise of Napoleon Bonaparte).
July 3: Louis XVII of France was carried away from Marie Antoinette and was given to the treatment of a cobbler named Antoine Simon as a demand from the National Convention
July 13: Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat by Charlotte Corday.
July 17: Charlotte Corday is guillotined after her trial for murdering Marat
July 27: Robespierre elected to Committee of Public Safety.
July 28: Convention proscribes 21 Girondist deputies as enemies of France.
August 23: Levée en masse (conscription) order.
September 5: Start of Reign of Terror.
September 9: Establishment of sans-culottes paramilitary forces - revolutionary armies.
September 17: Law of Suspects passed.
September 22: A new calendar is introduced, denoting September 22, 1792 as being the start of year I.
September 29: Convention passes the General Maximum, fixing the prices of many goods and services.
October 10: 1793 Constitution put on hold; decree that the government must be "revolutionary until the peace".
October 15: Queen Marie Antoinette is impeached and convicted for treachery against the country, and for treason, originally they claimed that Marie had intercourse with her child, it was at this remark she stood up before the jury and told them no mother would do such a thing, and at that the people agreed they had gone too far on accusations. (so satisfied with treason). The Dauphin (Louis XVII) is condemned to be executed in the Place de la Revolution.
October 16: Marie Antoinette guillotined.
October 21: An anti-clerical law passed, priests and supporters liable to death on sight.
October 24: Trial of the 21 Girondist deputies by the Revolutionary Tribunal.
October 31: The 21 Girondist deputies guillotined.
November 3: Olympe de Gouges, champion of rights for women, guillotined for Girondist sympathies.
November 8: Madame Roland guillotined as part of purge of Girondists.
November 10: The Cathedral of Notre Dame is re-dedicated to the civic religion of the Cult of Reason.
November 25: Mirabeau's remains in the Panthéon are replaced with that of Marat's.
December 4: Law of 14 Frimaire (Law of Revolutionary Government) passed; power becomes centralised on the Committee of Public Safety.
December 5: First issue of Desmoulins' Le Vieux Cordelier.
December 20: Robespierre proposes the formation of a commission "to examine all detentions promptly and the free the innocent." This idea is shot down by Billaud-Varenne.
December 23: Anti-Republican forces in the Vendée finally defeated and 6000 prisoners executed.

1794

February: Final 'pacification' of the Vendée - mass killings, scorched earth policy.
February 19: Louis Antoine de Saint-Just elected president of the National Convention.
March 13: Last edition of Jacques Hébert's Le Père Duchesne produced.
March 19: Hébert and his supporters arrested.
March 24: Hébert and leaders of the Cordeliers guillotined.
March 28: Death of philosopher and mathematician Marquis de Condorcet in prison.
March 30: Danton, Desmoulins and their supporters arrested.
April 5: Danton and Desmoulins guillotined.
May 7: National Convention, led by Robespierre, passes decree to establish the Cult of the Supreme Being.
May 8: Antoine Lavoisier, chemist, guillotined as traitor.
June 8: Festival of the Supreme Being.
June 10: Law of 22 Prairial - the Revolutionary Tribunal became a court of condemnation without the need for witnesses.
June 26: French forces defeat Austrians at the Battle of Fleurus.
July 25: André Chenier, poet, guillotined for conspiring against the Revolution.
July 27–28: Night of 9–10 Thermidor - Robespierre arrested, guillotined without trial, along with other members of the Committee of Public Safety. Commune of Paris abolished. End of the Reign of Terror. Also called The Thermidorian Reaction.
Latter half of 1794: The White Terror - reaction against remaining Jacobins.
November 11: Closure of Jacobin Club.

1795

May 20: Insurrection against Thermodorian Convention. Sans-culottes and Jacobins suppressed.
May 31: Suppression of the Paris Revolutionary Tribunal.
July 14: Marseillaise accepted as the French National Anthem.
August 22: Constitution of the Year III ratified - bicameral system, executive Directory of five.
October 5: 13 Vendémiaire - Napoleon's "whiff of grapeshot" quells Paris insurrection.
October 26: National Convention dissolved.
January 13: Marat's remains are removed from the Panthéon.

The Directory

November 2: Executive Directory takes on executive power.

1796

March 9: Marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais
May 10: Battle of Lodi (Napoleon in Italy)
June 4: Beginning of the Siege of Mantua

1797

April 18: Preliminary Peace of Leoben
July 8: Cisalpine Republic established
September 4: Coup d'état of 18 Fructidor revives Republican measures
October 18: Treaty of Campo Formio

1798

February: Roman Republic proclaimed
April: Helvetian Republic proclaimed
May 11: Law of 22 Floréal Year VI - Council elections annulled, left wing deputies excluded from Council.
July 21: Battle of the Pyramids
August 1: Battle of the Nile - Nelson's victory isolates Napoleon in Egypt.
December 24: Alliance between Russia and Britain

1799

June 17–19: Battle of the Trebia (Suvorov defeats French)
June 18: Coup of 30 Prairial Year VII - removed Directors, left Sieyès as dominant figure in government.
August 24: Napoleon leaves Egypt.
October 9: Napoleon returns to France
October 22: Russians withdraw from coalition
November 9: The Coup d'État of 18 Brumaire: end of the Directory
December 24: Constitution of the Year VIII - leadership of Napoleon established under the Consulate. French Revolution may be considered ended.

References

General

Adcock, M. (2004). Analysing the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Specific

French Revolution

Significant civil and political events by year

1788	Day of the Tiles (7 Jun 1788) Assembly of Vizille (21 Jul 1788)

1789	What Is the Third Estate? (Jan 1789) Réveillon riots (28 Apr 1789) Convocation of the Estates-General (5 May 1789) National Assembly (17 Jun – 9 Jul 1790) National Constituent Assembly (9 Jul – 30 Sep 1791) Tennis Court Oath (20 Jun 1789) Storming of the Bastille (14 Jul 1789) Great Fear (20 Jul – 5 Aug 1789) Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (27 Aug 1789) Women's March on Versailles (5 Oct 1789)

1790	Abolition of the Parlements (Feb–Jul 1790) Abolition of the Nobility (19 Jun 1790) Civil Constitution of the Clergy (12 Jul 1790)

1791	Flight to Varennes (20–21 Jun 1791) Champ de Mars Massacre (17 Jul 1791) Declaration of Pillnitz (27 Aug 1791) The Constitution of 1791 (3 Sep 1791) Legislative Assembly (1 Oct 1791 – Sep 1792)

1792	France declares war (20 Apr 1792) Brunswick Manifesto (25 Jul 1792) Paris Commune becomes insurrectionary (Jun 1792) 10th of August (10 Aug 1792) September Massacres (Sep 1792) National Convention (20 Sep 1792 – 26 Oct 1795) First republic declared (22 Sep 1792)

1793	Execution of Louis XVI (21 Jan 1793) Revolutionary Tribunal (9 Mar 1793 – 31 May 1795) Reign of Terror (27 Jun 1793 – 27 Jul 1794) Committee of Public Safety Committee of General Security Fall of the Girondists (2 Jun 1793) Assassination of Marat (13 Jul 1793) Levée en masse (23 Aug 1793) Law of Suspects (17 Sep 1793) Marie Antoinette is guillotined (16 Oct 1793) Anti-clerical laws (throughout the year)

1794	Danton & Desmoulins guillotined (5 Apr 1794) Law of 22 Prairial (10 Jun 1794) Thermidorian Reaction (27 Jul 1794) White Terror (Fall 1794) Closing of the Jacobin Club (11 Nov 1794)

1795	Constitution of the Year III (22 Aug 1795) Conspiracy of the Equals (Nov 1795) Directoire (1795–99) Council of Five Hundred Council of Ancients

1797	Coup of 18 Fructidor (4 Sep 1797) Second Congress of Rastatt (Dec 1797)

1799	Coup of 30 Prairial VII (18 Jun 1799) Coup of 18 Brumaire (9 Nov 1799) Constitution of the Year VIII (24 Dec 1799) Consulate

Revolutionary campaigns

1792	Verdun Thionville Valmy Royalist Revolts Chouannerie Vendée Dauphiné Lille Siege of Mainz Jemappes Namur

1793	First Coalition Siege of Toulon (18 Sep – 18 Dec 1793) War in the Vendée Battle of Neerwinden) Battle of Famars (23 May 1793) Capture of San Pietro and Sant'Antioco (25 May 1793) Battle of Kaiserslautern Siege of Mainz Battle of Wattignies Battle of Hondschoote Siege of Bellegarde Battle of Peyrestortes (Pyrenees) First Battle of Wissembourg (13 Oct 1793) Battle of Truillas (Pyrenees) Second Battle of Wissembourg (26–27 Dec 1793)

1794	Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies (24 Apr 1794) Battle of Boulou (Pyrenees) (30 Apr – 1 May 1794) Battle of Tournay (22 May 1794) Battle of Fleurus (26 Jun 1794) Chouannerie Battle of Tourcoing (18 May 1794) Battle of Aldenhoven (2 Oct 1794)

1795	Peace of Basel

1796	Battle of Lonato (3–4 Aug 1796) Battle of Castiglione (5 Aug 1796) Battle of Theiningen Battle of Neresheim (11 Aug 1796) Battle of Amberg (24 Aug 1796) Battle of Würzburg (3 Sep 1796) Battle of Rovereto (4 Sep 1796) First Battle of Bassano (8 Sep 1796) Battle of Emmendingen (19 Oct 1796) Battle of Schliengen (26 Oct 1796) Second Battle of Bassano (6 Nov 1796) Battle of Calliano (6–7 Nov 1796) Battle of the Bridge of Arcole (15–17 Nov 1796) The Ireland Expedition (Dec 1796)

1797	Naval Engagement off Brittany (13 Jan 1797) Battle of Rivoli (14–15 Jan 1797) Battle of the Bay of Cádiz (25 Jan 1797) Treaty of Leoben (17 Apr 1797) Battle of Neuwied (18 Apr 1797) Treaty of Campo Formio (17 Oct 1797)

1798	French Invasion of Egypt (1798–1801) Irish Rebellion of 1798 (23 May – 23 Sep 1798) Quasi-War (1798–1800) Peasants' War (12 Oct – 5 Dec 1798)

1799	Second Coalition (1798–1802) Siege of Acre (20 Mar – 21 May 1799) Battle of Ostrach (20–21 Mar 1799) Battle of Stockach (25 Mar 1799) Battle of Magnano (5 Apr 1799) Battle of Cassano (27 Apr 1799) First Battle of Zurich (4–7 Jun 1799) Battle of Trebbia (19 Jun 1799) Battle of Novi (15 Aug 1799) Second Battle of Zurich (25–26 Sep 1799)

1800	Battle of Marengo (14 Jun 1800) Battle of Hohenlinden (3 Dec 1800) League of Armed Neutrality (1800–02)

1801	Treaty of Lunéville (9 Feb 1801) Treaty of Florence (18 Mar 1801) Algeciras Campaign (8 Jul 1801)

1802	Treaty of Amiens (25 Mar 1802)

Military leaders

French Army

French Navy

Charles-Alexandre Linois

Opposition

Austria	József Alvinczi Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen Count of Clerfayt (Walloon) Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg Friedrich Freiherr von Hotze (Swiss) Friedrich Adolf, Count von Kalckreuth Pál Kray (Hungarian) Charles Eugene, Prince of Lambesc (French) Maximilian Baillet de Latour (Walloon) Karl Mack von Leiberich Rudolf Ritter von Otto (Saxon) Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld Peter Vitus von Quosdanovich Prince Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen Johann Mészáros von Szoboszló (Hungarian) Karl Philipp Sebottendorf Dagobert von Wurmser

Britain	Sir Ralph Abercromby Admiral Sir James Saumarez Admiral Sir Edward Pellew Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany

Dutch Republic	William V, Prince of Orange

Prussia	Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen

Russia	Alexander Korsakov Alexander Suvorov

Spain	Luis Firmin de Carvajal Antonio Ricardos

Other significant figures and factions

Society of 1789	Jean Sylvain Bailly Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Isaac René Guy le Chapelier Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Nicolas de Condorcet

Feuillants and monarchiens	Madame de Lamballe Madame du Barry Louis de Breteuil Loménie de Brienne Charles Alexandre de Calonne de Chateaubriand Jean Chouan Grace Elliott Arnaud de La Porte Jean-Sifrein Maury Jacques Necker François-Marie, marquis de Barthélemy Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas Antoine Barnave Lafayette Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth Charles Malo François Lameth André Chénier Jean-François Rewbell Camille Jordan Madame de Staël Boissy d'Anglas Jean-Charles Pichegru Pierre Paul Royer-Collard

Girondists	Jacques Pierre Brissot Roland de La Platière Madame Roland Father Henri Grégoire Étienne Clavière Marquis de Condorcet Charlotte Corday Marie Jean Hérault Jean Baptiste Treilhard Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve Jean Debry Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil Olympe de Gouges Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux

The Plain	Abbé Sieyès de Cambacérès Charles François Lebrun Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot Philippe Egalite Louis Philippe I Mirabeau Antoine Christophe Merlin de Thionville Jean Joseph Mounier Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours François de Neufchâteau

Montagnards	Maximilien Robespierre Georges Danton Jean-Paul Marat Camille Desmoulins Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Paul Nicolas, vicomte de Barras Louis Philippe I Louis Michel le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau Jacques-Louis David Marquis de Sade Jacques-Louis David Georges Couthon Roger Ducos Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois Jean-Henri Voulland Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas Marc-Guillaume Alexis Vadier Jean-Pierre-André Amar Prieur de la Côte-d'Or Prieur de la Marne Gilbert Romme Jean Bon Saint-André Jean-Lambert Tallien Pierre Louis Prieur Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac Antoine Christophe Saliceti

Hébertists and Enragés	Jacques Hébert Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne Pierre Gaspard Chaumette Charles-Philippe Ronsin Antoine-François Momoro François-Nicolas Vincent François Chabot Jean Baptiste Noël Bouchotte Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel François Hanriot Jacques Roux Stanislas-Marie Maillard Charles-Philippe Ronsin Jean-François Varlet Theophile Leclerc Claire Lacombe Pauline Léon François-Noël Babeuf Sylvain Maréchal

Others	Charles X Louis XVI Louis XVII Louis XVIII Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien Louis Henri, Prince of Condé Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé Marie Antoinette Napoléon Bonaparte Lucien Bonaparte Joseph Bonaparte Joseph Fesch Joséphine de Beauharnais Joachim Murat Jean Sylvain Bailly Jacques-Donatien Le Ray Guillaume-Chrétien de Malesherbes Talleyrand Thérésa Tallien Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target Catherine Théot List of people associated with the French Revolution

Influential thinkers

Les Lumières Beaumarchais Edmund Burke Anacharsis Cloots Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Pierre Claude François Daunou Diderot Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson Antoine Lavoisier Montesquieu Thomas Paine Jean-Jacques Rousseau Abbé Sieyès Voltaire

Cultural impact

La Marseillaise French Tricolour Liberté, égalité, fraternité Marianne Bastille Day Panthéon French Republican Calendar Cult of the Supreme Being Cult of Reason Sans-culottes Metric system Women in the French Revolution Symbolism in the French Revolution Historiography of the French Revolution Influence of the French Revolution

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