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1789 - 1799 |
France: The French Revolution, ending with the overthrow of the Directory by Napoleon Bonaparte. |
*France
*French Revolution |
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May 1789 |
Louis XVI attempts limited economic reforms. |
*French Revolution |
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June 17, 1789 |
The Third Estate--representatives of the French people who are neither aristocrats (First Estate) nor clergy (Second Estate)--names itself the National Assembly (the equivalent of the English House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives breaking off from the rest of the government and legislating on their own). |
*French Revolution |
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June 20, 1789 |
The oath of the Jeu de Paume (the Tennis Court where the National Assembly is now meeting; they resolve not to adjourn until they have established a constitution for the kingdom). |
*French Revolution |
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June 22, 1789 |
The clergy joins the Third Estate. |
*French Revolution |
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July 14, 1789 |
Fall of the Bastille: A Paris mob storms the Bastille prison; aristocracy begins to emigrate. |
*French Revolution |
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Aug 1789 |
Constituent Assembly (formerly the National Assembly) ratifies The Declaration of the Rights of Man, abolished Feudalism, and drafts a constitution limiting the monarchy. Jacobins, at first the liberal, then increasing radical wing of the assembly, gain power. |
*French Revolution |
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Oct 5, 1789 - Oct 6, 1789 |
"October days": Parisian women, unable to get
bread, march to Versailles and bring the royal family back to Paris. |
*French Revolution |
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Nov 1789 |
Land owned by the church is nationalized. |
*French Revolution |
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1790 |
Beginning of the Revolution Controversy (the pamphlet war set off by Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France). |
*French Revolution |
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July 12, 1790 |
French Revolution: Civil constitution of the Clergy (the state gets clergy's tithes and property). |
*French Revolution |
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July 14, 1790 |
French Revolution: Marquis de Lafayette, general who formerly fought with George Washington, presides over the Fête of Federation, the celebration in Paris (and elsewhere in France) commemorating Bastille day of 1789. |
*French Revolution |
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Nov 1, 1790 |
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France. |
*French Revolution
*Revolution Controversy in England |
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Nov 29, 1790 |
Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men published anonymously. |
*French Revolution |
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1791 |
French Revolution: The Pope condemns the new French constitution. |
*French Revolution |
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1791 |
Proofs of Blake, The French Revolution (not published). |
*French Revolution |
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May 19, 1791 |
Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly." (Dated January 1791.) |
*French Revolution |
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June 1791 |
French Revolution: Louis XVI tries to flee France, but is arrested, returned to Paris, and forced to accept the new constitution. |
*French Revolution |
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July 17, 1791 |
French Revolution: Troops led by Lafayette (now in the moderate Girondin faction) open fire on a Republican demonstration in the Champ de Mars (site of the Fête of Federation in Paris a year earlier). |
*French Revolution |
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Oct 1, 1791 |
French Revolution: Newly elected Legislative Assembly opens. |
*French Revolution |
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Dec 1791 |
French Revolution: Legislative Assembly deprives émigrés of their property.
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*French Revolution |
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1792 |
Reform: violence in France; repression in Britain (restrictions on freedom of the press). Fox gets Libel Act through Parliament; the act requires a jury and not a judge to determine libel (this act saves reformers in 1794). |
*French Revolution
*Parliamentary Reform |
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1792 |
Mass petition compaign for abolition. Commons resolves on gradual abolition by 1796. Lords delay action in favor of preliminary hearings. Boycott of sugar begins. French Revolution begins to affect mass agitation. Sierra Leone settlement renewed. Denmark decrees gradual abolition by
1803. |
*Abolition
*French Revolution |
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Mar 1792 |
Girondins come to power, advocating a constitutional monarchy, overthrow of the clergy, and the aggressive export of the French Revolution across Europe. |
*French Revolution |
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Apr 20, 1792 |
France declares war against Austria. |
*French Revolution |
