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1789 May 5: The Estates General opens at Versailles June 17: The Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly June 20: The Tennis Court Oath July 14: Fall of the Bastille Late July: The Great Fear spreads in the countryside August 4: The nobles surrender their feudal rights in a meeting of the National Constituent Assembly August 27: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen October 5-6: Parisian women march to Versailles and force Louis XVI and his family to return to Paris 1790 July 12: Civil Constitution of the Clergy adopted July 14: The king accepts a new constitution 1791 June 20-24: Louis XVI and his family attempt to flee France and are stopped at Varennes August 27: The Declaration of Pillnitz October 1: The Legislative Assembly meets 1792 April 20: France declares war on Austria August 10: The Tuileries palace is stormed, and Louis XVI takes refuge with the Legislative Assembly September 2-7: The September Massacres September 20: France wins the battle of Valmy September 21: The monarchy is abolished 1793 January 21: Louis XVI is executed February 1: France declares war on Great Britain March: Counterrevolution breaks out in the Vendee April: The Committee of Public Safety is formed June 22: The Constitution of 1793 is adopted. It is not put into effect. August 23: Levee en masse proclaimed September 17: Maximum prices set on food and other commodities October 16: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed November 10: The Cult of Reason is proclaimed. The revolutionary calendar is adopted 1794 March 24: Execution of the Hebertist leaders of the sans-culottes April 6: Execution of Danton May 7: Cult of the Supreme Being proclaimed June 8: Robespierre leads the celebration of the Festival of the Supreme Being. June 10: The Law Of 22 Prairial is adopted July 27: The Ninth of Thermidor and the fall of Robespierre July 28: Robespierre is executed 1795 August 22: The Constitution of the Year Ill is adopted, establishing the Directory

Resources Primary Sources Cahiers de doleances Sieyes: What is the Third Estate Young: Travels in France Secondary Sources Important Figures in the French Revolution

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