November 2: Executive Directory takes on executive power.1796March 9: Marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de BeauharnaisMay 10: Battle of Lodi (Napoleon in Italy)June 4: Beginning of the Sie ...
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 ...
October 1: Legislative Assembly meets - many young, inexperienced, radical deputies.November 9 All émigrés are ordered by the Assembly to return under threat of deathNovember 11 Louis vetoes the rul ...
May 5: Meeting of the Estates-General - voting to be by Estate, not by headMay 28: The Third Estate (Tiers Etat) begins to meet on its own, calling themselves "communes" (commons)June 4: The Dauphin o ...
Events preceding but pertinent to the French RevolutionThe Enlightenment, which led to many European writers criticising the Monarchy and espousing democratic, liberalist, nationalist and socialist id ...
