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French Rev Timeline

A timeline of the French Revolution

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1748 The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu was published (about the separation of powers)
1751 Encyclopedie first published (a compilation of all useful knowledge)
1762 The Social Contract by Rousseau published (about the equality of man in nature and popular sovereignty)
1763 Treatise on Toleration published by Voltaire (about religious toleration)
10 May 1774 Accession of Louis XVI (crowned 1775)
19 April 1775 - 3 September 1783 American War of Independence
1774 -1776 (financial minister) Jacques Turgot - gives Louis XVI a memorandum of debts and warns against the war
12 May 1776 Turgot was dismissed
22 October 1776-1781 (finance minister) Necker appointed Finance minister
1778 - 1783 France was involved in the American War of Independence
October 1776 Benjamin Franklin visited France to secure their involvement
February 1781 Necker published the Compte Rendu (France's finances for the public)
May 1781 Necker resigns
1783 - 1787 (finance minister) Calonne is appointed finance minister and the vingtieme ends
1775 (finances) expenditure = 411 million livres & Income = 337 livres
20 August 1786 Calonne presents new plan for improvement
22 February - 25 May 1787 Assemby of Notables meets to improve Calonne's tax reforms
30 April 1787-1788 (finance minister) Brienne is appointed the 4th financial minister
8 April 1787 Calonne is dismissed
August 1787 Paris and Bordeaux parlements are exiled after refusing his reform proposals
19 November 1787 Louis XVI holds a royal session to assert royal authority
3 May 1781 Parlement of Paris proclaims that new taxes need approval of Estates-General
7 June 1788 "Day of the Tiles" occurs in Grenoble and riots break out in support of local parlements
8 August 1788 King calls for the Estates General for the 1st of May
16 August 1788 Treasury payments suspended; the crown is bankrupt
24 August 1788 Brienne resigns and suggests Necker be called back in
26 August Necker is recalled
25 September 1788 Parlement of Paris decress E.G. must meet according to the rules in 1614 (upheaval by 3rd estate)
27 December 1788 King agrees to double the 3rd estate for the E.G.
July 1788 Massive hailstorm causing harvest crisis
January-May 1789 Cahiers are drawn up, election are held and pamphlets are circulated with the censorship law abolished
January 1789 Sieyes published "what is the third estate"
March 1789 Peasant disturbances begin
26-29 April 1789 Reveillon Riots
5 May 1789 E.G. begins - king makes no decision on voting rights
17 June 1789 Third Estate declares themselves a national assembly
20 June 1789 Tennis court oath
23 June 1789 Royal session - king declares NA invalid and commands 3 estates meet separately but NA deputies ignore him
25 June 1789 2nd estate (nobility) join the NA
27 of June 1789 King gives in and orders estates to unite; troops are called to Paris
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