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5 May 1789The Estates-General convenes in Versailles for the first time in 175 years.
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14 Jul 1789The Bastille in Paris is stormed.
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16 Jul 1789The 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.
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20 Jun 1791 - 21 Jun 1791The Flight to Varennes, an attempted escape by the French royal family from Paris, is foiled; public disdain for the monarchy increases.
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27 Aug 1791Austria and Prussia release the Declaration of Pillnitz, threatening Revolutionary France with military action.
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20 Apr 1792Revolutionary France declares war on Austria, sparking the War of the First Coalition.
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20 Sep 1792The Battle of Valmy results in a French victory over Prussian invaders.
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6 Nov 1792The Battle of Jemappes results in a victory for the French Republic over an Austrian army, allowing for the French conquest of Belgium.
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18 Mar 1793The Battle of Neerwinden results in an Austrian victory, driving the French Republican forces from Belgium.
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5 Apr 1793General Dumouriez betrays the French Republic and defects to the Austrians.
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23 Aug 1793The levee en masse is enacted, flooding France's armies with conscripts.
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15 Oct 1793 - 16 Oct 1793Battle of Wattignies results in victory for the French Republic over an Austrian army.
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24 Jun 1794The French are victorious at the Battle of Fleurus; their armies remain ascendent for the rest of the War of the First Coalition.
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Jan 1795The Dutch Republic falls and is replaced by the Batavian Republic, first of the French satellite states known as sister republics.
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Apr 1795 - Jun 1795Prussia and Spain exit the French Revolutionary Wars with the treaties of Basel.
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23 Jun 1795 - 21 Jul 1795British attempt to land French emigres ends in failure at the Battle of Quiberon.
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10 Apr 1796 - 2 Apr 1797Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian Campaign.
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17 Oct 1797Austria and France sign the Treaty of Campo Formio, ending the War of the First Coalition.
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17 Oct 1797The Treaty of Campo Formio ends the War of the First Coalition.