French Revolution Timeline Notes
Event & Date
1) Financial
Crises in France
Date ________
2) Meeting of
the Estates
General
Date ________
3) Creation of
the National
Assembly
Date ________
4) Tennis Court
Oath
Date ________
5) Firing of
Jacques Necker
Date ________
What was it?
AP Euro/Greenberg
Why did it matter?
6) Storming of
the Bastille
Date ________
7) The Great
Fear
Date ________
8) Declaration
of the Rights of
Man
Date ________
9) Women’s
March on
Versailles
Date ________
10) Civil
Constitution of
the Clergy
Date ________
11) King
attempts to
flee France
Date ________
12)Edmund
Burke writes
“Reflections”
Date ________
13) Legislative
Assembly
writes
Constitution
Date ________
14) France
declares war on
Austria and
Prussia
Date ________
15) Revolution
in Haiti
Date ________
16) Declaration
of the Rights of
Man AND
Woman
Date ________
17) National
Convention
takes power
Date ________
18) King Louis
XVI tried and
executed
Date ________
19) Marie
Antoinette
executed
Date ________
20) The rise of
the SansCulottes
Date ________
21) Robespierre
becomes leader
of the
Committee of
Public Safety
Date ________
22) Republic of
Virtue
Date ________
23) DeChristianization
of France
Date ________
24) Death of
Marat
Date ________
25)Reign of
Terror Ends
Thermidorian
Reaction
Date ________
26) Directory in
Power
Date ________
Events 1-16 make up the “liberal phase” of the French Revolution. Why was this period of the revolution considered liberal and was this phase successful
for those who wanted change?
Events 18-26 make up the “radical phase” of the French Revolution. Why was this period of the revolution considered radical and was this phase
successful for those involved?