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French Rev Timeline
A timeline of the French Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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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