HUB Dates

June 29, 1789

Tennis Court Oath

july 14, 1789

Bastille stormed

july 19-aug 3, 1789

great fear

aug 4, 1789

feudal rights renounced

aug 27, 1789

decl. of the rights of man

oct 5-6, 1789

louis xvi moves to paris

july 12, 1790

civil constitution of the clergy is issued

june 20-21, 1791

king flees to austria and gets caught at varennes

aug 27, 1791

austria and prussia call for support of french king

sept 1791

nat. ass. issues constitution

apr 20, 1792

france declares war on austria and prussia

aug 10, 1792

legislative assembly falls

sept 20, 1792

french army stops prussians and austrians at Valmy (belgium)

sept 21, 1792

france declared a republic after monarchy is abolished

oct 1792

revolutionary calendar isintroduced; sept 22, 1972 = day 1

jan 21, 1793

convention executes the king

feb 1793

convention declares war on 1st coalition of austria, prussia, britain, holland, and spain

feb 1793

counter-revolutionary revolt in the Vendee begins

march 1793

reign of terror by robespierre

aug 23, 1793

military draft instituted

fall 1793

price controls ,dechristianization, admin. reform

apr 4, 1794

danton executed

june 26, 1794

french victory over austrians at fleurens (belgium)

july 28, 1794

thermidor: robespierre executed, end of terror

feb 21, 1795

churches reopened

aug 22, 1795

new constitution is adopted, forming the directory

oct 5, 1795

napoleon saves the directory from a royalist mob

sept 4, 1797

coup d’etat removes royalists from directory

oct 17, 1797

french defeat austrians in N Italy and make peace

1798

french capture switz., rome and naples; suffer bad defeat in egypt

spring 1799

2nd coalition of austria, russia, turkey and great britain drive french army back

nov 9, 1799

napoleons coup d’etat abolishes directory and establishes consulate

1801-2

napoleon makes peace with austria and britain, concordat with the pope

1803

renewed war with britain

1804

napoleonic code promulgated

1805

3rd coalition (austria, britain, and russia) moves against france

1805-09

french victories; “republics” set up throughout europe, spain resists

1812

napoleon suffers major defeat in russia

1814

austria, britain, prussia, and russia defeat france, napoleon sent to elba

march 1815

napoleon returns to france for “100 days”

june 18, 1815

british and prussians defeat napoleon at waterloo; louis 18th restored