12 History France AOS1 Timeline (dyerj9) by https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9 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 03:10:24 UTC 2026-01-03 19:59:19 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1eb-1f1f7.png Louis XVI crowned as king doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996669 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996669 Jacques Necker issues his Compte Rendu doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996670 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996670 Calonne informs Louis of the nation's imminent bankruptcy, proposing taxation reform doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996671 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996671 First signs of Great Fear in rural France doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996672 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996672 Seven Years' War doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996673 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996673 Third Estate declares itself to be the National Assembly doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996674 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996674 The Enlightenment begins. doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996675 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996675 The Assembly of Notables is convened doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996676 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996676 The young French nobleman Marquis de Lafayette sails to America and volunteers to fight with the American revolutionaries. doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996677 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996677 The king appoints lawyer Charles de Calonne as the controller-general of finances. doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996678 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996678 American Revolutionary War doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996679 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996679 After attempting some limited economic reform, finance minister Anne Robert Turgot is dismissed by Louis XVI. doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996680 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996680 De Laclos publishes ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, a novel that depicts the French nobility as leisure loving, amoral and debauched. doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996682 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996682 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/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996683 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996683 The death of King Louis XV. His grandson becomes King Louis XVI. doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996684 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996684 Brienne schedules the Estates-General doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996685 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996685 National Constituent Assembly surrenders feudalism (the 'August Decrees') doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996686 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996686 The marriage of Louis and Marie Antoinette. doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996688 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996688 Sieyes publishes What is the Third Estate? doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996690 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996690 Bastille prison stormed doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996692 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996692 Rumours about wage freezes triggers the Reveillon riots. doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996694 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996694 Lafayette appointed as commander of the National Guard doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996696 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996696 Necker dismissed by the king doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996698 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996698 Marie Antoinette and her inner circle become embroiled in the ‘Diamond Necklace affair’. doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996700 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996700 The parlement registers further national loans but declares all lettres de cachet to be illegal. doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996701 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996701 Louis XVI orders the drafting and compilation of cahiers de doleances or ‘books of grievances’. doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996703 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996703 Louis XVI orders the mobilisation of royal troops, particularly around Paris. doshea8 https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996704 2024-09-20 03:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dyerj9/li3e0wolctt4s5b9/wish/3128996704