February 22 First Assembly of Notables, called by Charles-Alexandre de Calonne against a background of state financial instability and general resistance by e.g. the aristocracy to the imposition of taxes and fiscal reforms. \n* April. Charles de Lomenie de Brienne replaces de Calonne as Contoller-General of Finances.\n* May 25 First Assembly of Notables dissolved.
May 5: Meeting of the States-General\n* June 10: The Third Estate (others) votes for the common verification of credentials, in opposition to the First Estate (the aristocracy) and the Second Estate (the clergy)\n* June 17: National Assembly declared\n* June 20: Third Estate/National Assembly are locked out of meeting houses by royal decree; Tennis Court Oath in which the National Assembly vows to continue despite royal prohibition\n* June 23: Two companies of French guards mutiny in the face of public unrest\n* June 30: Large crowd storms left bank prison and frees mutinous French Guards\n* July 1: Louis recruits more troops, among them many foreign mercenaries\n* July 9: National Constituent Assembly declared by the breakaway Third Estate \n* July 11: Necker dismissed by Louis; populace sack the monasteries, ransack aristocrats homes in search of food and weapons\n* July 14: Storming of the Bastille\n* July 15: Lafayette appointed Commander of the National Guard\n* July 16: Necker recalled, troops pulled out of Paris\n* July 17: The beginning of the Great Fear, the peasantry revolt against feudalism and a number of urban disturbances and revolts\n* August 4: Surrender of feudal rights\n* August 27: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by the National Assembly\n* October 5-6: Outbreak of the Paris mob; Liberal monarchical constitution;\n* November 2: Church property nationalised and otherwise expropriated\n* December 12Assignats are used as legal tender
February 13 Suppression of monastic vows and religious orders\n* July 14: Constitution accepted by King Louis XVI\n* July: Growing power of the clubs (including: Cordeliers, Jacobin Club)\n* July: Reorganisation of Paris\n* September: Fall of Necker
January 30: Mirabeau elected President of the Assembly\n* February 28: Day of Daggers; Lafayette orders the arrest of 400 armed aristocrats at the Tuileries\n* March 2: Abolition of trade guilds\n* April 2: Death of Mirabeau\n* April 13: Papal bull, Cavitas, condemning the Civil Constitution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is published\n* June 14: Le Chapelier law banning trade unions is passed by National Assembly\n* June 20-25: Royal family's flight to Varennes\n* June 25: Louis XVI forced to return to Paris\n* 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. \n* July 15: National Assembly declares the king to be inviolable and he is reinstated.\n* July 17: Champ-de-Mars massacre in which the National Guard fire on protestors against the reinstatement of the king\n* August 27: Declaration of Pillnitz ( Frederick William II and Leopold II)\n* September 13-14: Louis XVI accepts the constitution formally\n* September 30: Dissolution of the National Constituent Assembly
September 20: Battle of Valmy\n* September 20: Final sessions of the Legislative Assembly and first meeting of the National Convention; unanimous vote for the abolition of the monarchy\n* October 10: The terms monsieur and madame are baneed by decree, to be replaced with citoyen and citoyenne\n* December 11: Commencement of the trial of Louis XVI before the Convention
March 5: Treaty of Basel (Prussia withdraws from war)\n* April 1: Bread riots in Paris\n* June 8: Death of the dauphin ( Louis XVII)\n* August 22: Constitution of 1795
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how
improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)
