Timeline from the Beginning of the French Revolution
until the Battle of Trafalgar (1805) |
| 1789 |
| May 5 | Estates General convened |
| June 20 | Tennis Court Oath |
| July 11 | Necker dismissed |
| July 12 | Riots begin in Paris |
| July 14 | Fall of the Bastille |
| July 16 | Necker reinstated |
| August 26 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen |
| October 5-6 | The Day of the Market Women (King and family taken to Paris) |
| November 2 | Property of the church nationalized |
| 1790 |
| June 12 | Titles of Nobility abolished |
| July 12 | Civil constitution of the clergy |
| November 27 | Law imposes civic oath on clergy |
| 1791 |
| April 2 | Death of Mirabeau |
| June 20 | King and royal family attempt to escape but are apprehended |
| June 25 | King loses last vestiges of authority |
| July 17 | Massacre of the Champ de Mars |
| October 1 | Legislative Assembly meets |
| 1792 |
| February 9 | Property of emigres seized by state |
| March 10 | Girondin ministry takes power |
| April 20 | War declared |
| June 20 | Mob invades Tuileries |
| August 19 | Lafayette defects to Austrians |
| September 2 | Surrender of Verdun to Prussians |
| September 2-6 | Prison Massacres |
| September 20 | Convention constituted |
| September 21 | Monarchy abolished |
| 1793 |
| January 21 | Execution of the King |
| February 1 | War declared against England and Holland |
| March 7 | War declared against Spain |
| March 10 | Establishment of Revolutionary Tribunal |
| March 11 | The Vendée revolt begins |
| March 26 | Establishment of Committee of Public Safety |
| July 13 | Murder of Marat |
| July 27 | Robespierre joins Committee of Public Safety |
| August 27 | Toulon surrenders to Admiral Hood |
| September 17 | Law of Suspects |
| October 16 | Execution of Marie Antoinette and the beginning of the Terror |
| October 31 | Execution of the Girondin leaders |
| December 19 | Hood evacuates Toulon |
| 1794 |
| January | Lord Hood and General Dundas take fortifications in the bay of San Fiorenzo, Corsica |
| | Calvi and Bastia fall (Nelson loses the sight in one eye directing a battery at Calvi) |
| June 1 | Glorious 1st of June—Howe defeats French fleet but allows merchant ships to reach France with much needed cargo of grain |
| July 27 | Arrest of the Robespierrists |
| July 28 | Execution of Robespierre and his supporters |
| November 12 | Jacobin club closed |
| December 8 | Return of surviving Girondins to Convention |
| February | Admiral Sir John Jervis takes Martinique and Guadeloupe |
| 1795 |
| January 23 | Amsterdam occupied |
| April 5 | Peace treaty signed with Prussia |
| April 16 | Peace with Holland |
| June 27 | British Navy lands Emigres at Quiberon |
| July 20 | Emigres defeated |
| October 26 | Convention is dissolved and the Directory created |
| 1796 |
| | Hood withdraws from Corsica |
| | Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Christian takes St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenada |
| March 2 | Bonaparte becomes general of the Army of Italy |
| May 10 | Bonaparte defeats Austrians |
| 1797 |
| December 10 | Bonaparte returns to Paris |
| February 14 | Battle of Cape St Vincent—Admiral Sir John Jervis defeats Spanish fleet—Nelson distinguishes himself |
| | Nore Mutiny |
| October 11 | Battle of Camperdown—Admiral Duncan defeats Dutch fleet |
| 1798 |
| May 18 | Bonaparte sails for Egypt |
| August 1 | Nelson defeats French fleet at battle of the Nile |
| 1799 |
| March 12 | War declared on Austria |
| September 26 | Massena defeats Russians at Zurich |
| October 9 | Bonaparte lands at Fréjus |
| November 9 | Coup d'etat of Brumaire effectively brings Bonaparte to power |
| 1800 |
| September | British take possession of Malta |
| 1801 |
| October | Peace of Amiens signed with France |
| 1805 |
| October 21 | Battle of Trafalgar—Nelson destroys the Franco-Spanish fleet |
| December | Bonaparte defeats the Austrians and Austerlitz |
