12 History France AOS1 Timeline (Josie Cooney) by Josie Cooney https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla Step 1: Reorganise the cards so they form a timeline from left to right. Step 2: Decide which events are essential and which are not. Delete non-essential events. Step 3: Edit the remaining posts to add a date and explanation of how the event contributed to the revolution. (For bonus points: add a historian's quote of no more than 15 words) en-us 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC 2024-09-20 03:10:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1eb-1f1f7.png Louis XVI crowned as king doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996813 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996813 Jacques Necker issues his Compte Rendu doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996814 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996814 Calonne informs Louis of the nation's imminent bankruptcy, proposing taxation reform doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996815 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996815 First signs of Great Fear in rural France doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996817 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996817 Seven Years' War doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996818 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996818 Third Estate declares itself to be the National Assembly doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996821 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996821 The Enlightenment begins. doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996822 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996822 The Assembly of Notables is convened doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996823 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996823 The young French nobleman Marquis de Lafayette sails to America and volunteers to fight with the American revolutionaries. doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996824 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996824 The king appoints lawyer Charles de Calonne as the controller-general of finances. doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996825 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996825 American Revolutionary War doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996826 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996826 After attempting some limited economic reform, finance minister Anne Robert Turgot is dismissed by Louis XVI. doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996828 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996828 De Laclos publishes ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, a novel that depicts the French nobility as leisure loving, amoral and debauched. doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996829 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996829 The Treaty of Paris brings the American Revolutionary War to a close. Involvement in the war has cost the French government more than 1.8 billion livres. doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996830 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996830 The death of King Louis XV. His grandson becomes King Louis XVI. doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996831 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996831 Brienne schedules the Estates-General doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996832 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996832 National Constituent Assembly surrenders feudalism (the 'August Decrees') doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996833 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996833 The marriage of Louis and Marie Antoinette. doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996834 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996834 Sieyes publishes What is the Third Estate? doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996835 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996835 Bastille prison stormed doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996836 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996836 Rumours about wage freezes triggers the Reveillon riots. doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996837 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996837 Lafayette appointed as commander of the National Guard doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996838 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996838 Necker dismissed by the king doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996839 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996839 Marie Antoinette and her inner circle become embroiled in the ‘Diamond Necklace affair’. doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996840 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996840 The parlement registers further national loans but declares all lettres de cachet to be illegal. doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996842 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996842 Louis XVI orders the drafting and compilation of cahiers de doleances or ‘books of grievances’. doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996845 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996845 Louis XVI orders the mobilisation of royal troops, particularly around Paris. doshea8 https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996847 2024-09-20 03:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cooj1/5086t9wnzn835wla/wish/3128996847