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Principal Dates and Time Line of
French Revolution
First phase Harvests have failed and starvation stalks France peasantry are in open and continuing revolt across country
June-July 88 Insurrection at Grenoble
8 August 88 Louis XVI convokes État-général on suggestion of former finance minister Jacques Necker to hear grievances
5 May 89 Opening of État-général at Versailles
June 89 Representatives of tiers état form a National Assembly swearing not to leave until a new constitution is established
23rd June 89 King rejects Resolutions of tiers etat
9 July 89 National Assembly declares itself Constituent Assembly
12 July 89 Necker is dismissed 50 000 citizens arm mselves wi pikes and form National Guard
14 July 89 Armed citizens storm and capture Bastille
15 July 89 Lafayette appointed Commander of National Guard
July 89 ‘Great Fear’ begins as peasants revolt across France
5-11 August 89 National Assembly decrees abolition of feudalism
26 August 89 National Assembly decrees Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
5 October 89 Women lead delegation to King in Versaille demanding bread After scuffles y are fobbed off by King
6 October 89 King returns to Paris
2nd November 89 Constituent Assembly decrees expropriation of Church property
16 December 89 National Assembly legislates for departments etc
28 January 90 Removal of civil disabilities against Jews
13 February 90 Suppression of religious orders and vows
19 June 90 Abolition of nobility and titles
14 July 90 Civil Constitution subordinating Church to civil government inaugurated by Louis XVI
18 August 90 First counter-revolutionary assembly at Jalès
30 January 91 Mirabeau elected President of French Assembly
2nd March 91 Abolition of Royal guilds and monopolies
15 May 91 Black citizens of French colonies granted equal rights
21st June 91 Louis XVI attempts to flee to Varennes but is recognised and forcibly returned to Paris
15 July 91 Assembly declares King inviolable and restores his prerogatives
July 91 National Guard fires on crowd protesting against restoration of King
13 September 91 King formally accepts Constitution
30 September 91 Constituent Assembly dissolves
1st October 91 Legislative Assembly commences
9 November 91 Civil marriage and divorce instituted Assembly orders all émigrés to return under pain of dea
11 November 91 King vetoes Assembly’s ruling on émigrés
January-March 91 Food riots across Paris
9 February 91 Property of émigrés forfeited
20 April 92 France declares war on Austria but French army flees at sight of enemy
20 June 92 Jacobin Insurrection again warted by gestures by King but Jacobins continue to defy Assembly
25 July 92 Duke of Brunswick publishes call for allied attack on France
10 August 92 Jacobin masses storm Tuileries Palace massacring Swiss Guard and King imprisoned
19 August 92 Lafayette flees to Austria
22nd August 92 Royalist riots in Vendée Britanny; armies suffer setbacks at Langwy and Verdun
Second phase Hencefor struggle is between bourgeois and proletariat ra r an nobility and bourgeoisie
1st September 92 General mobilisation citizens sent to front
2nd September 92 Danton instigates massacre of about 1 200 Royalists held in Parisian prisons
20 September 92 French forces defeat invading force at Valmy Hencefor Revolution would enjoy victory in its military conflicts
21st September 92 The Convention elected by Legislative Assembly commences abolishes monarchy; day one of Republican Calendar
19 November 92 “Edict of Fraternity offers aid to subject peoples
11 December 92 Trial of king begins
21st January 93 Louis XVI executed
1st February 93 France declares war on Britain and Holland
25 February 93 Food riots in Paris
6 April 93 Committee of Public Safety established
24 April 93 Marat put on trial for complicity in September massacre but is acquitted
4 May 93 Maximum price of bread imposed
27 May 93 Uprising of Paris Commune against Convention
2nd June 93 Expulsion of Girondists ( party of compromise from all offices The Commune of Paris becomes centre of power
24 June 93 Jacobin Constitution accepted by Convention
13 July 93 Marat people’s friend murdered by Charlotte Corday
July 93 Corday executed amid popular outrage
1st August 93 Metric system of measures adopted
23rd August 93 Levée en masse (conscription decreed
4-5 September 93 Popular riots in Paris
September 93 “Law of Suspects initiates Terror
14 October 93 Marie-Antoinette tried and executed
23rd October 93 Republican Calendar decreed
24 October 93 22 Girondists tried and executed
10 November 93 Festival of Liberty and Reason
24 March 94 Robespierre Committee of Public Safety and Jacobin Club denounce Hébertists and Dantonists on framed-up charges and execute all popular leaders Robespierre becomes virtually dictator
18 May 94 Robespierre decreed new religion of Supreme Being
8 June 94 The day of inauguration of Supreme Being
10 June 94 (22 Prairial procedures for mass trial and execution implemented Victims will go to guillotine now in batches of 50 or 60 at a time An estimated 2 750 are executed of whom great majority are poor
27 July 94 (9 Thermidor Convention calls for arrest of Robespierre Robespierre attempts insurrection which flops is arrested and executed After about 150 of his supporters are done away wi Terror is over
Third phase The reaction Limit on price of bread removed Reactionary gangs beat up revolutionists in streets
12 November 94 Jacobin Club is suppressed by Convention
1st January 95 The Churches re-open for Christian worship
May-June 95 White Terror instituted in Sou
8 June 95 The Dauphin dies in prison Comte de Provence assumes title of Louis XVIII
22nd August 95 Constitution of Year III approved establishing Directory
5 October 95 Royalists attempt a coup and Napoleon Bonaparte makes his name suppressing move wi grapeshot The popular party gains streng Gracchus Babeuf is its spokesperson holding running meetings at Pan on
26 October 95 The Convention dissolves itself in favour of a dictatorship of Directorate
2nd February 96 Napoleon assumes command of French army in Italy
26 February 96 Directorate bans popular meetings at Pane on
10 May 96 Leaders of Babeuf’s Conspiracy of Equals arrested
7 September 96 100s of supporters of Babeuf attack palace of Directorate but are routed
27 May 97 Babeuf and his supporters are convicted but take ir own lives
May 97 Elections produce a Royalist majority Elections in 98 and 99 produce a more radical result and are annulled by Directorate
18 June 99 Directorate resigns
9 November 99 (18 Brumaire Napoleon Bonaparte named First Consul now effective dictator
2nd December 1804 Napoleon consecrated as Emperor
Chronology 1802-1838 | French Revolution Archive
Marxists Internet Archive History Archive France France 1802-1838
Chronology of French Workers’ Movement
1802-1838
Source http biosocuniv-paris1fr histoire chrono
Written by Stéphane Sirot Michel Cordillot René Lemarquis & Claude Pennetier;
Translated for marxistsorg by Andy Blunden
Chronology 88-1804
1802
Bonaparte restores Chambers of Commerce
1803
12 April Law on regulation of work in factories and workshops and prohibition of workers’ combinations renewed
1st December Creation of workers’ passbook allowing police and employers to know exact situation of each workman Any worker found travelling wi out his passbook is deemed a vagrant and convicted as such
1804
21 March Code civil (article 81 in event of wages litigation word of Master overrides at of worker before courts This article will be abolished only in 1866
1806
18 March Creation of Council of Conciliation Board to settle disputes at work Unskilled workers are excluded First Council meets in Lyon
1809
11 June Decree supplementing law of 18 March 1806
1810
February Articles 291 292 414 415 & 416 of Penal Code making any association of more an twenty people subject to government approval and severely repressing any union attempting industrial action or wage agitation
1812
2 March Food riots in Caen; ordinance to distribute soup to 2 million
1813
3 January Decree fixing at ten age from which children can go down mines
1814
Saint-Simon Auguste Comte On Reorganisation of European Society
1815
Béranger Songs
18
February Peasant disorders in Brie and Champagne
8 June Insurrectionary movement in Lyon and its surrounds
13 June First executions of workers in Lyon by Provost’s Court
20 September Elections in which progress of Left allows formation of a Party of Independents in Chamber of Deputies
October Trial of June insurgents before Provost Court in Lyon
1818
20-26 October By-elections; Independents win 20 seats
1819
11-20 September Success of Left in elections
1820
3 June Disorders in Paris at time of debate of a law which gave a double vote to more privileged The student Nicolas Lallemand is killed by a royal guard
9 June At funeral of Nicolas Lallemand demonstration along Boulevards of Paris is joined by many workers from suburb of Saint-An ony
19 August Attempted insurrection in Paris known as French Bazaar; o r attempts take place simultaneously in Lyon and Colmar
1821
1st May The creation in Paris of Charbonnerie – a revolutionary secret society – by Philippe Buchez Saint-Amand Bazard and Jacques-Thomas Flotard
1822
Failure of insurrectionary attempts of Charbonnerie in Belfort (January and July Thouars and Saumur (February culminating in September in execution in Paris of Quatre Sergents de La Rochelle
Publication of Treatise of Domestic-agricultural Association of Charles Fourier The Fourierist movement begins to ga r some disciples but quickly develops from beginning of 1830s under impetus of Victor Considerant
1824
6-8 August Strikes and demonstrations of more an 1 500 cotton spinners in Houlmes and workers in surrounding district demanding same wages and working conditions in all companies in area
1825
19 May Dea of Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon au or of Catéchisme des industriels et du Nouveau Christianisme If he had such a feeble audience while he was alive his ideas would be quickly popularized by his disciples Olinde Rodrigues Prosper Enfantin and Saint-Amand Bazard who between 1826 and 1830 ga red around m a brilliant and active school
1st October Publication of first number of Producteur saint-simonien last issue was published on 12 December
1826
1st November Beginning of publication of Gazette des tribunaux
30 November Tumultuous funeral of General Foy
1827
30 March Funeral of La Rochefoucault-Liancourt which turns into a riot
29 April Republican demonstration against laws on press Dissolution of Parisian National Guard
24 August In Paris a Republican demonstration of 100 000 people to Père-Lachaise on occasion of funeral of liberal Deputy Manuel
September Founding by royalist Pierre Charnier of Society of Mutualists in Lyon under name of Société de surveillance et indication mutuelle It will transform itself into Société d’indication et assistance mutuelle before disappearing one 6 April 1828
-20 November After opposition’s victory in election re are violent demonstrations especially in Paris and repression is no less violent As a result re are many dead primarily amongst workers For first time since Fronde a century civil war in France barricades are erected
30 November The Society for Mutual Aid in Lyon founded by Jacques Lacombe is au orised by Mayor
1828
Saint-Amand Bazard publishing Doctrine of Saint-Simon Exposition Buonarroti publishes his history of Conspiracy of Equals in Bruxelles His activity as well as success of work itself will be origin of emergence after 1830 of a Neo-Babouvist communist movement which will inspire secret societies of first decade of July Monarchy and n develop during second decade
1829
June Publication of La Jeune France
8 June Publication of La Tribune des Départements
August Publication of L’Organisateur saint-simonien
December Recommencement of La Tribune after an interuption of two mon s
1830
February Publication of La Révolution by J Fazy and Antony Thouret
26 February Creation of workshops for unemployed workers
27-28-29 July The Three Glorious Days Barricades in Paris Louis-Philippe will replace Charles X in August
30 July Creation of Society of Friends of People (SAP
31 July The last attempt to prevent Lafayette from handing power to Louis-Philippe of Orleans fails
July-November Strikes for wage increases and reductions in working day in Rouen Darnetal Paris Roubaix Limoges Brings on acts of Luddism (printing works weaving
-20 October Serious disorders in Paris at time of swearing in of Charles X’s ministers New outbreak of posters in workers’ districts inciting citizens to arm mselves and reconquer rights which had been taken from m
December The journal Le Globe passes to Saint-Simonists at instigation of Pierre Leroux
20-22 December New upsurge and posting of proclamations To People calling faubourgs to action and calling for an assembly representing faubourgs recallable every year Demonstrations of workers and students are very violent and followed by numerous arrests
1831
January The affair of Academic Council denounced by students as like a Provost’s court Violent demonstrations Arrests of student leaders (Auguste Blanqui Jean-François Danton Plocque Sambuc
8 February Le Globe publishes Petition for a Proletarian Chamber of Deputies by clockmaker Charles Béranger
14-15 February Popular riots against Church and Legitimists in Paris and n in Provinces
March-June Demonstrations against introduction of machines in Nantes Saint-Étienne Bordeaux Le Havre
6-10 April Trial of 19 republicans accused after December riots; y are acquitted by jury Numerous popular demonsrations
9-12 April Riot by silk workers in Lyons
June Serious disorders and riots in suburb of Saint-Denis due to economic situation Very severe repression Many victims
1st June Creation of Philan ropic Society of Tailors in Paris
1st July First issue of SAP publication Au Peuple
14 July Popular riots Attempt to plant a Tree of Equality in place de la Bastille More an 1 500 demonstrators are dispersed by police officers disguised as workers Seizure of Au Peuple
7 September Demonstration by 1 500 textile workers followed by riots in Paris which last until September
October Saint-Simonnist demonstration accompanied by vigorous propaganda in provinces
30 October First number of L’Écho de la Fabrique (Lyons
November Split in Saint-Simonist school The last of fai ful will follow Prosper Enfantin to Egypt O r disciples like Abel Transon and Jules Lechevalier will publicly adopt Fourierism
20-22 November Revolt by silk workers in Lyons Negotiations by Prefect fail; insurrection; tough repression by Soult The revolt ends on 3 December
1832
January Trial of The Fifteen leaders of SAP The accused (Auguste Blanqui Bonnias François Guillaume Gervais François Vincent Raspail Antony Thouret defend mselves; y are found guilty and condemned on 27 February The SAP is offically dissolved but continues its activities
February A number of newspapers put on trial Creation of a workers’ commission wi in SAP (Auguste Caunes senior Gaussuron-Despréaux François Sugier Pierre Leroux and Jean Reynaud take over editorship of Revue encyclopédique organ of Neo-Saint-simonists
29 March Official announcement of a cholera epidemic in Paris
1st April Revolt by prisoners at Sainte-Pélagie supported by several sections of SAP One dea Beginning of a riot by Parisian chiffoniers (rag collectors
End April Creation wi in SAP of Commissions for Rights of Man End of Globe (20 April
5-6 June Popular insurrection in Paris on occasion of funeral of General Lamarque The last group of insurgents fight heroically around cloisters of Saint-Merry Casualities are very heavy at least 150 killed on side of insurgents more an 400 wounded and more an 1 500 arrested; 134 dea s and 326 wounded on side of police
Summer Bir of Society for Rights of Man (SDH
27-28 August Trial of Saint-Simonists in Court of Assizes in Paris Prosper Enfantin Michel Chevalier and Charles Duveyrier are sentenced to one year in prison
23-31 October Trial of insurgents of cloisters of Saint-Merry C Jeanne who led struggle is sentenced to be deported
November-December Several detachments of Saint-Simonist missionaries (forty people altoge r leave Paris for Lyon where y aim to form peaceful army of workers
15 December Opening of trial of The Association of Rights against SAP The SAP is definitively dissolved but acquittal of accused enables it to survive for some time
1833
25 January La Tribune publishes list of five great patriotic associations in Paris into which SAP and SDH dissolve Apart from society The sky helps him who helps himself ra r far from workers movement o rs associations for free public education and for freedom of press played a considerable part
1st February Imprisoned in Sainte-Pélagie Laponneraye publishes her Lettre aux prolétaires It wil be followed by Deuxième lettre aux prolétaires dated 26 March (The first of se letters will see au or be condemned on 27 June following
20 May Insurrection of miners of Anzin
July Publication of newspaper of Étienne Cabet Le Populaire
September-October Reorganization of SDH wi extreme left predominant after several mon s of internal conflicts between Girondists (wi Francois Vincent Raspail and Montagnards (wi Napoleon Lebon Wi in Society a Propaganda Committee in charge of education and organisation of workers is founded It ga rs Neo-Babouvists like Napoleon Lebon Buonarroti and Marc Voyer d’Argenson as well as workers like tailor Alphonse Grignon and shoemaker Z Efrahem Several of its members will be imprisoned in November as instigators of combinations of workmen Important movements of carpenters in Paris tailors (who create a national workshop to provide work for strikers shoemakers and bakers Creation of a Lyons section of SDH The SDH publishes its Manifesto in La Tribune Publication of Reflections of a Tailor by Alphonse Grignon and On Association of Workers of all Trades by Z Efrahem
1st October Creation of Philan ropic Society of Tailors in Nantes It will play an important part in creation of a network of correspondents from Brittany to Bordeaux as in Marseille The Philan ropic Society of Tailors in Nantes is destroyed on 20 February 1837
11-12 December Trial of 27 (leaders of SDH accused of having planned a riot in July marking ird anniversary of Three Glorious Days
1834
Founding of Association of Goldsmi s which will continue to exist until 1873
January Law prepressing town criers
February Strike of Mutualist workers in Lyon following a reduction in wages The general strike will last approximately 10 days
2 February The first and only number of Libérateur journal of Auguste Blanqui
22 February Following strike of Mutualist workers in Lyon adoption of a law prohibiting associations organised in branches of less an 20 persons
9-14 April Insurrection initially of workers in Lyon and Saint-Étienne and of a diverse character in Arbois Épinal Lunéville Chalon Grenoble Vienne Clermont-Ferrand Marseille Toulon On 11 in Lyon massacre in rue Projetée On 12 in Paris arrest of 150 republicans including leaders of SDH La Tribune cannot appear On 14 in Paris massacre in rue Transnonain In Paris as elsewhere riots are quickly repressed and casualities are very heavy more an 300 dead and 600 wounded in Lyon scores dead in Paris; 2 500 arrested of which half are in Paris more an 2 300 charged
10 April Passing of law on associations which requires official approval for associations split into branches of less an 20 persons
June-September Disorders and revolts in Sainte-Pélagie
July-August Creation of Société des Familles by Hadot-Desages
8 October Publication of first number of Réformateur of François Vincent Raspail
11 October La Tribune reappears
1835
6 February Members of Cour des Pairs sign arrest warrants for more an 420 persons The defense organised itself Parisians appoint a committee (Godefroy Cavaignac Guinard Auguste Blanqui Vignerte Lyonnais ano r (Baune Lagrange Caussidière Dissension between ose which preach a traditional defense (Jules Favre Ledru-Rollin and ose who want instead to build a movement On April list of defenders chosen by defendants appears in press
5 May First session of April Trial after wi drawal of charges according to Tableau drawn up by Caussidière and Inventaire 164 insurgents of April 1834 (including 87 Lyoneses will appear before Cour des Pairs Defendants meet at Auguste Blanqui’s place
8 May Publication of defendants’ protest
11 May Publication of Lettre des défenseurs aux accusés d’April
29 May-4 June Trial of defendants before Chamber of Peers They are convicted Ulysse Trélat very severely Michel de Bourges a little less and some o rs
12 July Escape of at least 25 prisoners from Sainte-Pélagie
28 July Fieschi’s arrest
3-8 August First trial for production of explosives (Eustache Beaufour
13 August Judgment of Cour des Pairs on ose accused in Lyon (72 convictions
9 September Law of September Freedom of press if forcefully restricted and it is made an offence to declare oneself a republican
7 and 28 December Judgment of Cour des Pairs on ose accused in Lunéville Saint-Étienne Grenoble Marseille Arbois and Besançon (25 convictions
1836
23 January End of April trial 40 Parisians are condemned
30 January-15 February Trial of Fieschi
19 February Execution of Fieschi Pépin Morey
8 March Discovery of Explosives Conspiracy; Armand Barbès and d’Auguste Blanqui arrested on 11
25 June-11 July Arrest trial execution of Alibaud
2-10 August Explosives Conspiracy Trial Armand Barbès and Auguste Blanqui sentenced to prison
-23 October Explosives Conspiracy Trial appeal The majority of setences are confirmed
1837
April-July Inflammatory post campaign wi 7 proclamations from Printworks of Republic first being entitled Au Peuple Arrests (Antoine Fomberteaux Reorganization of Société des Familles is reorganised under name of Pelotons and launches publication of Moniteur républicain
8 May Amnesty to mark marriage of Duc d’Orléans but missing or escaped prisoners are excluded
June Les Saisons replaces Familles
November First number of Moniteur républicain dated 3 Frimaire year XLVI according to Republican calendar The 8 and last number is published in July
8 November Discovery of a plot against King (Aloys Huber Laure Grouvelle convicted in May 1838
1838
August-September Publication of four numbers of L’Homme libre followed by arrest of printers (Eugène Fomberteaux Jean-Baptiste Guillemin Lecomte Minor Trial in June 1839 accompanied by a new publication which is swiftly repressed (Joseph Béchet Stanilas Vilcoq trial in November 1839
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