| 1787--- |
 August
--September: Exile & recall of Parliament; riots in Paris |
| 1789--- |
 May
5: Estates General assemble at Versailles
June
17: National Assembly declared
June
20: Tennis-Court Oath
 July
12-14: Paris revolution and fall of Bastille
August
25: Declaration
of Rights of Man & Citizen |
| 1790--- |
 June
19: Abolition of nobility and titles |
| 1791--- |
 June
20: King
Louis XVI flight to Varennes
August
27: Declaration of Pillnitz
September:
Constitution of 1791 voted by Assembly
September
30: Dissolution of Constituent Assembly |
| 1792--- |
September
2-6: Prison massacres in Paris
September
21: Meeting of National Convention
December
1792--January 1793: Trial of Louis XVI |
| 1793-- |
January
21: Execution of King Louis XVI
March:
Revolt of the Vendée Revolutionary Tribunal
April
15-16: Committee of Public Safety set up
June
24: Adoption of Constitution of 1793
July
10: Danton
removed
from Committee of Public Safety
July
13: Assassination of Marat
September
4-5: Beginning of the Terror
December
4: Revolutionary Government established |
| 1794--- |
February
26-March 3: Laws of Ventôse
March
25: Execution of Hébertists
April
5: Execution of Dantonists
June
10: Law of 22nd Prairial
June-July:
The Great Terror
 July
26-29: Conspiracy and crisis of Thermidor;
fall of Robespierre; execution of Robespierrist members of the Commune
of Paris |
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