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French Revolution
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- Timeline
- Ancien Régime
- Causes
- Revolution
- Constitutional monarchy
- Republic
- Directory
- Consulate
- Glossary
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Significant civil and political events by year
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| 1788 |
- Day of the Tiles
- Assembly of Vizille
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| 1789 |
- Reveillon riot
- Convocation of the Estates-General
- National Assembly
- National Constituent Assembly
- Tennis Court Oath
- Storming of the Bastille
- Great Fear
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- Women's March on Versailles
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| 1790 |
- Abolition of the Parlements
- Abolition of the Nobility
- Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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| 1791 |
- Flight to Varennes
- Champ de Mars Massacre
- Declaration of Pillnitz
- The Constitution of 1791
- Legislative Assembly
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| 1792 |
- Brunswick Manifesto
- Paris Commune becomes insurrectionary
- 10th of August
- September Massacres
- National Convention
- First republic declared
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| 1793 |
- Execution of Louis XVI
- Revolutionary Tribunal
- Reign of Terror
- Committee of Public Safety
- Committee of General Security
- Fall of the Girondists
- Assassination of Marat
- Levée en masse
- Law of Suspects
- Marie Antoinette is guillotined
- Anti-clerical laws
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| 1794 |
- Danton & Desmoulins guillotined
- Law of 22 Prairial
- Thermidorian Reaction
- White Terror
- Closing of the Jacobin Club
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| 1795 |
- 1795 Constitution
- Conspiracy of the Equals
- Directoire
- Council of Five Hundred
- Council of Ancients
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| 1797 |
- Coup of 18 Fructidor
- Second Congress of Rastatt
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| 1799 |
- Coup of 30 Prairial Year VII
- Coup of 18 Brumaire
- Constitution of the Year VIII
- Consulate
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Revolutionary campaigns
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| 1792 |
- Verdun
- Thionville (fr)
- Valmy
- Royalist Revolts
- Chouannerie
- Vendée
- Dauphiné
- Lille
- Mayence (fr)
- Jemappes
- Namur (fr)
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| 1793 |
- First Coalition
- Siege of Toulon
- War in the Vendée
- Battle of Neerwinden)
- Battle of Famars
- Capture of San Pietro and Sant'Antioco
- Battle of Kaiserslautern
- Siege of Mainz
- Battle of Wattignies
- Battle of Hondschoote
- Siege of Bellegarde
- Battle of Peyrestortes (Pyrenees)
- First Battle of Wissembourg
- Battle of Truillas (Pyrenees)
- Second Battle of Wissembourg
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| 1794 |
- Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies
- Battle of Boulou (Pyrenees)
- Battle of Tournay
- Battle of Fleurus
- Chouannerie
- Battle of Tourcoing
- Battle of Aldenhoven
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| 1795 |
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| 1796 |
- Battle of Lonato
- Battle of Castiglione
- Battle of Theiningen
- Battle of Neresheim
- Battle of Amberg
- Battle of Würzburg
- Battle of Rovereto
- First Battle of Bassano
- Battle of Emmendingen
- Battle of Schliengen
- Second Battle of Bassano
- Battle of Calliano
- Battle of the Bridge of Arcole
- The Ireland Expedition
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| 1797 |
- Naval Engagement off Brittany
- Battle of Rivoli
- Battle of the Bay of Cádiz
- Treaty of Leoben
- Battle of Neuwied
- Treaty of Campo Formio
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| 1798 |
- French Invasion of Egypt
- Irish Rebellion of 1798
- Quasi-War
- Peasants' War
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| 1799 |
- Second Coalition
- Siege of Acre
- Battle of Ostrach
- Battle of Stockach
- Battle of Magnano
- Battle of Cassano
- First Battle of Zurich
- Battle of Trebbia
- Battle of Novi
- Second Battle of Zurich
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| 1800 |
- Battle of Marengo
- Battle of Hohenlinden
- League of Armed Neutrality
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| 1801 |
- Treaty of Lunéville
- Treaty of Florence
- Algeciras Campaign
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| 1802 |
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Military leaders
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| French Army |
- Eustache Charles d'Aoust
- Pierre Augereau
- Alexandre de Beauharnais
- Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
- Louis-Alexandre Berthier
- Jean-Baptiste Bessières
- Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune
- Jean François Carteaux
- Jean Étienne Championnet
- Chapuis de Tourville
- Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine
- Louis-Nicolas Davout
- Louis Desaix
- Jacques François Dugommier
- Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
- Charles François Dumouriez
- Pierre Marie Barthélemy Ferino
- Louis-Charles de Flers
- Paul Grenier
- Emmanuel de Grouchy
- Jacques Maurice Hatry
- Lazare Hoche
- Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
- François Christophe de Kellermann
- Jean Baptiste Kléber
- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- Jean Lannes
- Charles Leclerc
- Claude Lecourbe
- François Joseph Lefebvre
- Jacques MacDonald
- Jean-Antoine Marbot
- Jean Baptiste de Marbot
- François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers
- Auguste de Marmont
- André Masséna
- Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey
- Jean Victor Marie Moreau
- Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier
- Joachim Murat
- Michel Ney
- Pierre-Jacques Osten (fr)
- Nicolas Oudinot
- Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon
- Jean-Charles Pichegru
- Józef Poniatowski
- Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
- Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer
- Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier
- Joseph Souham
- Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult
- Louis-Gabriel Suchet
- Belgrand de Vaubois
- Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno
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| Opposition |
| Austria |
- József Alvinczi
- Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen
- Count of Clerfayt
- Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg
- Friedrich Freiherr von Hotze
- Friedrich Adolf, Count von Kalckreuth
- Pál Kray
- Charles Eugene, Prince of Lambesc
- Maximilian Baillet de Latour
- Karl Mack von Leiberich
- Rudolf Ritter von Otto
- Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
- Peter Vitus von Quosdanovich
- Prince Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen
- Johann Mészáros von Szoboszló
- Karl Philipp Sebottendorf
- Dagobert von Wurmser
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| Britain |
- Sir Ralph Abercromby
- Admiral Sir James Saumarez
- Admiral Sir Edward Pellew
- Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
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| Dutch Republic |
- William V, Prince of Orange
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| Prussia |
- Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
- Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
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| Russia |
- Alexander Korsakov
- Alexander Suvorov
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| Spain |
- Luis Firmin de Carvajal
- Antonio Ricardos
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Other significant figures and factions
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Influential thinkers
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- Les Lumières
- Beaumarchais
- Edmund Burke
- Anacharsis Cloots
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
- Pierre Claude François Daunou
- Diderot
- Benjamin Franklin
- Thomas Jefferson
- Antoine Lavoisier
- Montesquieu
- Thomas Paine
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Voltaire
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Cultural impact
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- La Marseillaise
- Fabre d'Églantine
- French Tricolour
- Liberté, égalité, fraternité
- Bastille Day
- Panthéon
- French Republican Calendar
- Cult of the Supreme Being
- Cult of Reason
- Sans-culottes
- Metric system
- Quatrevingt-treize
- A Tale of Two Cities
- The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Scaramouche
- La Révolution française
- Orphans of the Storm
- Danton
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