1747 CE - 1793 CE: Life of Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, also known as Philippe Égalité. Head of the House of Orléans, and a supporter of the French Revolution.

1761 CE - 1793 CE: Life of Antoine Barnave, French revolutionary leader.

1775 CE: Coronation of King Louis XVI of France.

1781 CE: Jacques Necker, French Director of Finance, publishes the Compte rendu au roi, the first record of royal finances ever made public.

1789 CE: Abbé Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès publishes his influential pamphlet "What is the Third Estate?"

1789 CE: The Estates-General convenes in Versailles for the first time in 175 years.

1789 CE: Jacques Necker, popular Chief Minister of France, is fired from King Louis XVI's cabinet for a second time and ordered into exile.

1789 CE: The dismissal of Jacques Necker causes over 6,000 Parisians to take to the streets. They fight with soldiers, burn toll booths, and raid armories and gunsmiths for weapons.

1789 CE: The Bastille in Paris is stormed.

1789 CE: Lafayette is appointed commander of the newly formed National Guard, and charged with keeping order in Paris.

1789 CE: The Great Fear sweeps across the French countryside, as peasants attack the feudal estates of the nobility.

1789 CE: The National Constituent Assembly discards their privileges, decides to abolish feudalism in France.

1789 CE: In France, the August Decrees are passed.

1789 CE: France's National Assembly approves a final version of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

1789 CE: The Women's March on Versailles increases demand for a French constitutional monarchy, relocates the royal family to the Tuileries Palace in Paris.

1789 CE: Women's March on Versailles; King Louis XVI of France is forcibly moved to Paris.

1790 CE: The National Assembly passes a decree making Corsica a department of France; Corsican hero Pasquale Paoli is invited back from exile after 22 years.

1790 CE: The National Assembly abolishes monastic vows in France.

1790 CE: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed, making the French Catholic Church subordinate to the French government.

1790 CE: Lafayette helps organize and lead the Fete de Federation, a festival celebrating the French Revolution. He takes an oath swearing loyalty to the nation, the law and the king.

1791 CE: The Flight to Varennes, an attempted escape by the French royal family from Paris, is foiled; public disdain for the monarchy increases.

1791 CE: National Guard soldiers under Lafayette's command open fire at an anti-monarchy demonstration at the Champ de Mars in Paris. Several French citizens are killed.

1791 CE: The Declaration of Pillnitz is issued by Austria and Prussia, threatening war against France should any harm befall the French royal family.

1791 CE: France's National Assembly adopts the Constitution of 1791, with the Declaration of the Rights of Man serving as a preamble.

1792 CE: Napoleon Bonaparte is elected lieutenant colonel of the Corsican National Guard; weeks later, he suppresses an Easter Sunday uprising in Ajaccio.

1792 CE: Revolutionary France declares war on Austria, sparking the War of the First Coalition.

1792 CE: French General Theobald Dillon is butchered by his own soldiers.

1792 CE: King Louis XVI of France vetoes rulings by the Legislative Assembly, angering many.

1792 CE: King Louis XVI is accosted in the Tuileries Palace by a swarm of sans-culottes; he is forced to wear a liberty cap and drink a toast to the nation.

1792 CE: The Insurrectionary Commune gains power in Paris, stripping authority from the king and Legislative Assembly.

1792 CE: Insurrectionists storm the Tuileries Palace in Paris, massacring the Swiss Guards; King Louis XVI of France is imprisoned in the Temple prison fortress two days later.

1792 CE: The family of Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette are imprisoned in the Tower of the Temple.

1792 CE: Between 1,100-1,400 prisoners, or half of Paris' total prison population, are killed in the September Massacres.

1792 CE: The Battle of Valmy results in a French victory over Prussian invaders.

1792 CE: The National Convention abolishes the French Monarchy during the French Revolution.

1792 CE: The First French Republic is established.

1793 CE - 1794 CE: Thomas Paine is imrpisoned in Frnace during the ongoing French Revolution.

1793 CE: King Louis XVI of France, now known as Citizen Louis Capet, is executed by guillotine.

1793 CE: The Committee of Public Safety is set up by the National Convention.

1793 CE: The trial of Jean-Paul Marat results in his acquittal, and is a major blow to the Girondins.

1793 CE: The National Convention passes the "law of the maximum" which imposes a price cap on grain and wheat.

1793 CE: The Insurrections of 31 May-02 June 1793 lead to the arrests of prominent Girondins and the political purge of their faction.

1793 CE: Napoleon publishes his pro-Jacobin pamphlet Le Souper de Beaucaire, gaining the notice of Jacobin leader Augustin Robespierre.

1793 CE: Maximilien Robespierre elected to the Committee of Public Safety; the National Convention institutes death penalty for hoarders of goods.

1793 CE: Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried before the Revolutionary Tribunal. She is found guilty of high treason and is sentenced to death.

1793 CE: 21 leading Girondins, including Vergniaud and Brissot, are executed.

1794 CE: Following the Thermidorian Reaction, Napoleon Bonaparte is arrested in connection to the Robespierres; he is eventually released.

1795 CE: During the French Revolution, the royalist revolt of 13 Vendemiaire is crushed by Napoleon Bonaparte.