Map - Important Dates and Authors

MAP KEY - IMPORTANT DATES (with authors)


1789 - The French Revolution starts
       July 14 - Bastille is stormed by French peasants
       October 5 - Women protest in Versailles and demand bread from the King
Thomas de Mahy executed (famous Parisian author - anti revolution


1790
       June 19 - Abolition of Nobility and titles (what the revolutionaries wanted)
       August 18 - First counter revolutionaries form assembly in Halles


1791
       July 17 - National Guard fights and kills many revolutionaries
       January-March - Food riots across Paris
Marquis de Sade; after being released from prison, he wrote many novels in Paris
Thomas Paine - The Rights of Man
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau - French Revolutionary author dies


1792 
       August 10 - Jacobin masses storm the palace and grow in popularity 
Pierre Beaumarchais - Famous revolutionary known for his drama play writes


1793
       January 21 - King Louis XVI executed by guillotine
       September 5 - Reign of Terror begins with Jacobin Constitution accepted
Jean-Louis Laya - French dramatist in Paris, very active at this time


1794
       July 27 - Robespierre executed and Reign of Terror ends


1797
François-René de Chateaubriand - founder of Romanticism in French Literature


1799
       November 9 - Napoleon Bonaparte elected First Consul (becomes dictator)