Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Timeline of the French Revolution. See also History of France. 1789 January 24: Summoning of the States-General May 5: Meeting of the States-General June 17: National Assembly declared June 20: Tennis Court Oath July 9: National Constituent Assembly declared July 11: Necker dismissed July 14: Storming of the Bastille August 4: Surrender of feudal rights August 27: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen October 5-6: Outbreak of the Paris mob; Liberal monarchical constitution 1790 July 14: Constitution accepted by King Louis XVI July -- : Growing power of the clubs (including: Cordeliers, Jacobin Club) July -- : Reorganisation of Paris September: Fall of Necker 1791 April 2: Death of Mirabeau June 20-25: Flight to Varennes of the royal family July 17: Champ-de-Mars massacre September 30: Dissolution of the National Constituent Assembly October 1: Legislative Assembly meets August 27: Declaration of Pillnitz ( Frederick William II and Leopold II) 1792 February 7: Alliance of Austria and Prussia April 20: French declare war against Austria August 10: Storming of the Tuileries September 2-7: The September Massacres September 20: Battle of Valmy September 21: National Convention meets; Abolition of the monarchy December: Trial of Louis XVI before the Convention 1793 January 21: Execution of Louis XVI February 1: War declared against Britain, Holland, Spain March -- : Royalist revolt in the Vendée April -- : Power centered in the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security June 2: Arrest of 31 Girondist deputies July 13: Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat August 23: Levy of entire male population September 17: Establishment of the maximum price October 16: Execution of Marie Antoinette October 31: Execution of Girondists November 10: Abolition of the worship of god: Cult of Reason December -- : Retreat of the allies across the Rhine 1794 January 19 : English land in Corsica February 4 : Abolition of slavery in colonies March 24 : Execution of the Hébertists April 6 : Execution of the Dantonists June 8 : Festival of the Supreme Being June 10 : Law of 22 Prairial (power to the Revolutionary Tribunal) June 26 : Battle of Fleurus (1794) (French victory in Belgium) July 27 : Fall of Maximilian Robespierre (9 Thermidor) December 24 : Repeal of maximum 1795 March 5 : Treaty of Basel (Prussia withdraws from war) April 1 : Bread riots in Paris June 8 : Death of the dauphin ( Louis XVII) August 22 : Constitution of 1795 October 5 : Napoleon's "whiff of grape-shot" October 26 : Convention dissolved; Directory begins 1796 March 5 : War against the Holy Roman Empire March 9 Marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine May 10 Battle of Lodi (Napoleon in Italy) July Siege of Mantua 1797 April 18 Preliminary Peace of Leoben July 8 : Cisalpine Republic established September 4 : Coup d'Etat at Paris (republicans over reactionaries) October 17 : Treaty of Campo Formio 1798 February -- : Roman Republic proclaimed April -- : Helvetian Republic proclaimed July 21 : Battle of the Pyramids August 1 : Battle of the Nile December 24 : Alliance between Russia and Britain 1799 - Beginning of the Napoleonic Era June 17-19 : Battle of the Trebia (Suvorov defeats French) August 24 : Napoleon leaves Egypt October 22 : Russians withdraw from coalition November 9 : The Coup d'Etat of Brumaire (18 Brumaire): end of the Directory December 24 : Constitution of the Year VIII: Dictatorship of Napoleon established under the Consulate This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.