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

1789 CE: The Bastille in Paris is stormed.

1789 CE: The Comte d'Artois, Louis XVI's brother, flees Versailles with other royalists after the Storming of the Bastille, becoming the first wave of emigres to flee the French Revolution.

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: Austria and Prussia release the Declaration of Pillnitz, threatening Revolutionary France with military action.

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

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

1792 CE: The Battle of Jemappes results in a victory for the French Republic over an Austrian army, allowing for the French conquest of Belgium.

1793 CE: The Battle of Neerwinden results in an Austrian victory, driving the French Republican forces from Belgium.

1793 CE: General Dumouriez betrays the French Republic and defects to the Austrians.

1793 CE: The levée en masse is enacted, flooding France's armies with conscripts.

1793 CE: Battle of Wattignies results in victory for the French Republic over an Austrian army.

1794 CE: The French are victorious at the Battle of Fleurus; their armies remain ascendent for the rest of the War of the First Coalition.

1795 CE: The Dutch Republic falls and is replaced by the Batavian Republic, first of the French satellite states known as sister republics.

1795 CE: Prussia and Spain exit the French Revolutionary Wars with the treaties of Basel.

1795 CE: British attempt to land French emigres ends in failure at the Battle of Quiberon.

1796 CE - 1797 CE: Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian Campaign.

1797 CE: Austria and France sign the Treaty of Campo Formio, ending the War of the First Coalition.