12 History France AOS1 Timeline by Daniel O'Shea https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v 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 2022-09-15 04:38:46 UTC 2026-02-03 10:29:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1eb-1f1f7.png The Enlightenment begins. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297594660 2022-09-15 04:52:51 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297594660 Seven Years' War doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297595132 2022-09-15 04:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297595132 American Revolutionary War doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297595477 2022-09-15 04:53:33 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297595477 Louis XVI crowned as king doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297595918 2022-09-15 04:53:54 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297595918 Jacques Necker issues his Compte Rendu doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297596544 2022-09-15 04:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297596544 Calonne informs Louis of the nation's imminent bankruptcy, proposing taxation reform doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297597086 2022-09-15 04:54:53 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297597086 The Assembly of Notables is convened doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297597551 2022-09-15 04:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297597551 Brienne schedules the Estates-General doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297599630 2022-09-15 04:57:01 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297599630 Sieyes publishes What is the Third Estate? doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297601220 2022-09-15 04:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297601220 Third Estate declares itself to be the National Assembly doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297601897 2022-09-15 04:58:54 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297601897 Necker dismissed by the king doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297602610 2022-09-15 04:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297602610 Bastille prison stormed doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297602940 2022-09-15 04:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297602940 Lafayette appointed as commander of the National Guard doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297603401 2022-09-15 05:00:07 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297603401 First signs of Great Fear in rural France doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297603779 2022-09-15 05:00:26 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297603779 National Constituent Assembly surrenders feudalism (the 'August Decrees') doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297604057 2022-09-15 05:00:41 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2297604057 The marriage of Louis and Marie Antoinette. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298052237 2022-09-15 11:02:28 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298052237 The death of King Louis XV. His grandson becomes King Louis XVI. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298052702 2022-09-15 11:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298052702 After attempting some limited economic reform, finance minister Anne Robert Turgot is dismissed by Louis XVI. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298052967 2022-09-15 11:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298052967 The young French nobleman Marquis de Lafayette sails to America and volunteers to fight with the American revolutionaries. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298053232 2022-09-15 11:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298053232 De Laclos publishes ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, a novel that depicts the French nobility as leisure loving, amoral and debauched. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298054194 2022-09-15 11:04:38 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298054194 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/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298054417 2022-09-15 11:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298054417 The king appoints lawyer Charles de Calonne as the controller-general of finances. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298054553 2022-09-15 11:05:03 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298054553 Marie Antoinette and her inner circle become embroiled in the ‘Diamond Necklace affair’. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298054784 2022-09-15 11:05:20 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298054784 The parlement registers further national loans but declares all lettres de cachet to be illegal. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298055782 2022-09-15 11:06:25 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298055782 Louis XVI orders the drafting and compilation of cahiers de doleances or ‘books of grievances’. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298057099 2022-09-15 11:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298057099 Rumours about wage freezes triggers the Reveillon riots. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298057383 2022-09-15 11:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298057383 Louis XVI orders the mobilisation of royal troops, particularly around Paris. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298058545 2022-09-15 11:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/kkfo4114n2gbl29v/wish/2298058545