History French Rev

• Severn Years War


  1756-63
• Accession of Louis XVI

  1774
• Turgot is Controller-General


  1774-76
• Turgot's 6 Edicts


  1776
• Necker is Director-General


  1777-81
• France entered the American War

  1778-83
• Economic Crisis


  1781-7
• Calonne is Controller-General


  1783-87
• Affair of the Diamond Necklace

  1785
• Eden Treaty with Britain (TRADE)


  1786
• Calonne warns king of Bankruptcy


  1786
• Assembly of Notables


  1787
• Brienne is Controller-General


  1787-88
• May Edicts


  1788
• Revolt of the Nobles


  1788
• France is declared bankrupt (AUGUST)

  1788
• Announcement of the Estates-General (AUGUST) + Calls for Necker's return


  1788
• "What is the third estate?" by Sieyes is published + Bread crisis


  1789
• Estates general


  1789
• The start of the Great Fear

  20h of July 1789
• August Decrees


  4th of August 1789
• National Guard established


  10th of August 1789
• Declaration of the Rights of Man penned

  26 of August 1789
• National Assembly granted suspensive veto over the king

  11* of September 1789
• The October Days


  1. 6 of October 1789
• Church land Nationalised


  2nd of November 1789
• France is divided into departments

  26 Of February 1790
• The Paris sections are created

  21" of May 1790
• All hereditary titles of the nobility are abolished

  19 of June 1790
• Civil Constitution of the Clergy

  12th of July 1790
• Oath to the Civil Constitution is introduced

  November 1790
• Guilds dissolved


  2nd of March 1791
• Flight to Varennes


  20th of June 1791
• Padua Circular


  5th of July 1791
• Champ de Mars massacre

  17 of July 1791
• Declaration of Pillnitz


  27th of August 1791
• Louis accepts the new constitution

  13th of September 1791
• Decree against Emigres- voted on the 12th


  9 of November 1791
• War declared on Austria

  20th of April 1792
• Decree against refractory priests

  27th of May 1792