The French Revolution:
Chronology

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The National Assembly, 1789-91: From Ancien Régime to Constitutional Monarchy

Tennis Court Oath, 20 June 1789

Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789

Great Fear, summer 1789

Abolition of Feudalism, 4 August 1789

Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, 20 August 1789

Civil Constitution of the Clergy, July 1790

Constitution of 1791

The Legislative Assembly, 1791-92: From Monarchy to Republic

Beginning of Revolutionary war, 1792

The Second Revolution, August 1792: Legislative Assembly replaced by Constitutional Convention

France becomes a Republic, 20 Sept. 1792

The Convention, 1792-95: Move to the Left

Trial of Louis XVI, Jan. 1793

The Committee of Public Safety, 1793-94

The Expulsion of the Gironde, 2 June 1793

Constitution of 1793: suspended for the duration of the war, 22 June 1793
 

Levée en masse, August 1793
 

The Reign of Terror, 1793-94

The End of the Committee, 27 July 1794 (9 Thermidor)

The Thermidorean Reaction and the Directory, 1795-99: Move to the Right

The Constitution of the Year III, 1795

Royalist rebellion, 5 October 1795 (13 Vendémiaire)

Overthrow of the Directory, 10 November 1799 (19 Brumaire)

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