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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 July 12: Camille Desmoulins announces the dismissal of Necker to the Paris crowd. 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 11: The National Assembly grants suspensive veto to Louis XVI; Louis fails to ratify the August acts of the National Assembly. 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. 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 ... 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. 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 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 August 16 The parlements are abolished September: First edition of radical newspaper Le Père Duchesne printed by Jacques Hébert. September: Fall of Necker 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 Pantheon, formerly the Abbey of St Genevieve April 13: Encyclical of Pope Pius VI, Charitas, condemning the Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the unauthorised appointment of Bishops is published April 18: Louis and Marie-Antoinette prevented from travelling to Saint-Cloud for Easter June 14: Le Chapelier law 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 July 10: 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 17: Anti-Royalist demonstration at the Champ de Mars; National Guard kills fifty people. July: Remains of Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire reburied in Pantheon. August 14: Slave revolts in Saint Domingue (Haiti) 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 |
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