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The French Revolution (French: Révolution française [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) was a period of political and societal change in France which began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799.
March 1–2: French armies under Jourdan and Bernadotte cross the Rhine. March 3: French troops in Corfu surrender, after a long siege by a Russian-Turkish fleet. March 7: Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine. Some of his soldiers are infected with the plague. March 11: Bonaparte visits the hospital for plague victims in Jaffa.
French Republican Calendar of 1794, drawn by Philibert-Louis Debucourt. The French Republican calendar (French: calendrier républicain français), also commonly called the French Revolutionary calendar (calendrier révolutionnaire français), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and ...
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the Black March, the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. The march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of 5 October 1789, were nearly rioting over the high price of bread.
April 30 – George Washington is inaugurated at Federal Hall in New York City, beginning his term as the first president of the United States. May 5 – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time in 175 years, taken as the start of the French Revolution (1789–1799).
The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802) and produced a period of French domination over Continental Europe. [31]
[24] [25] The radical revolutionaries and their supporters desired a cultural revolution that would rid the French state of all Christian influence. [26] This process began with the fall of the monarchy , an event that effectively defrocked the state of its sanctification by the clergy via the doctrine of Divine Right and ushered in an era of ...
By the end of 1789, towns and villages throughout France began to join together as fédérations, fraternal associations which commemorated and promoted the new political structure. [ 1 ] A common theme among them was a wish for a nationwide expression of unity, a fête to honour the Revolution.