12 History France AOS1 Timeline (Daniel O'Shea) by Daniel O'Shea https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x 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 01:33:56 UTC 2025-09-19 03:24:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1eb-1f1f7.png Louis XVI crowned as king doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817939 June 11, 1775 - The king is now the divine right to power


]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817939 Jacques Necker issues his Compte Rendu doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817940 19 February 1781

Account of France's finances although misleading

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817940 Calonne informs Louis of the nation's imminent bankruptcy, proposing taxation reform doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817941 August 20 1786

Proposes reforms such as land tax, stamp duty and commutation of the corvee

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817941 First signs of Great Fear in rural France doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817942 July and August 1789

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817942 Seven Years' War doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817944 1756 to 1763

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817944 Third Estate declares itself to be the National Assembly doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817946 17 June 1789

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817946 The Enlightenment begins. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817947 Early 18th century - The people are now questioning things

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817947 The Assembly of Notables is convened doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817950 1787

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817950 The king appoints lawyer Charles de Calonne as the controller-general of finances. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817953 November 1783

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817953 American Revolutionary War doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817955 1775 - Lafayette brought american revolutionary spirit back to France and inspired the people

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817955 After attempting some limited economic reform, finance minister Anne Robert Turgot is dismissed by Louis XVI. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817956 May 1776

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817956 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/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817958 September 3, 1783

Motivated by French dislike for England. Expenses of the international war hurt France economically, and prompt calls of hypocrisy, as the French royals are financially supporting a revolution against a monarch.

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817958 The death of King Louis XV. His grandson becomes King Louis XVI. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817959 May 10 1774 - war mongering eg. 7 years war - 1 billion livres

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817959 Brienne schedules the Estates-General doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817961 May 5, 1789.

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817961 National Constituent Assembly surrenders feudalism (the 'August Decrees') doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817963 4-11 August 1789 - seen as nobility giving up their privileges and a new era of france

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817963 The marriage of Louis and Marie Antoinette. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817964 May 16 1770 - took around 7 years to have a child, tension between Austrian and french king


]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817964 Sieyes publishes What is the Third Estate? doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817965 January 1789 - encourages further enlightenment thinking

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817965 Bastille prison stormed doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817966 July 14, 1789

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817966 Rumours about wage freezes triggers the Reveillon riots. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817967 April 28, 1789

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817967 Lafayette appointed as commander of the National Guard doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817968 15 July 1789

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817968 Necker dismissed by the king doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817969 July 11, 1789 - short term cause for the storming of the bastille as he was generally well-liked amongst people in france (seen as banking wizard)

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817969 Marie Antoinette and her inner circle become embroiled in the ‘Diamond Necklace affair’. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817970 1784 to 1785

Symbolic of Marie Antoinette's lavish spending habits and the people's dislike for their extravagant queen due to her luxuries.

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817970 The parlement registers further national loans but declares all lettres de cachet to be illegal. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817971 January 1788

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817971 Louis XVI orders the drafting and compilation of cahiers de doleances or ‘books of grievances’. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817973 January 1789 - estates could have a say on what issues were impacting them - dominated by the bourgeoisie

]]> 2024-09-20 01:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817973 Louis XVI orders the mobilisation of royal troops, particularly around Paris. doshea8 https://padlet.com/doshea8/l9qx3j1mme3pme4x/wish/3128817975 July 1789 - created tension and fear amongst citizens of Paris, leading to the storming of the bastille

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