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July 14 is celebrated as Bastille Day in France.
The Bastille was a prison in Paris, which the people stormed and seized in 1789,
starting the French Revolution that toppled King Louis XVI and the aristocracy.
It is called Fête Nationale (National Holiday) in France.
France at that time was ruled by King Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antoinette.
It was an absolute monarchy, meaning that whatever the king and queen wanted,
they got. It didn't matter whether the people were starving in the streets, so
long as the royal banquet tables were full.
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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 -- : Reorganization 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
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