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Chronology |
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| 1755 | Marie Antoinette born in Vienna on 2nd November. |
| 1769 |
7th June: Louis XV asks for Marie Antoinette's
hand in marriage to the king's gradson Louis Auguste (the future Louis XVI). |
| 1770 |
19th April: Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI by proxy in Vienna. 16th Maj: wedding at Versailles . |
| 1772 |
1th January: Marie Antoinette greets
M.me du Barry , the favourite of Louis XV. |
| 1773 |
8th June: Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI make their official entry in Paris. |
| 1774 |
January: Marie Antoinette meets for the first time the Count Hans Axel de Fersen. April: Chistoph Willibald Gluck, music teacher of Marie Antoinette, presents his "Iphigenie" at the Opera. 10th Maj: death of Louis XV. Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are the new sovereigns of France. Louis XVI presents to Marie Antoinette "Le Petit Trianon". |
| 1775 |
February: The Archduke Maximilian ,
the younger brother of Marie Antoinette, pays a visit to his sister. First rising for bread. June: Louis XVI is crowned in Reims. Start the friendship between the Countess Yolande Gabrielle de Polignac and Marie Antoinette. |
| 1776 |
Turgot, Cotroller General of the Finances, is substituted with Necker. |
| 1777 |
April-May: Marie Antoinette's oldest brother Joseph II comes for a visit to Versailles and confers with king and queen. Louis XVI later undergoes an operation. August: first physical intimacy between of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. |
| 1778 |
19th-20th December: Bith of the first daughter of Marie Antoinette, Marie-Therese Charlotte, Madame Royale , the future Dukess of Angouleme. |
| 1779 | First libel is published in France against Marie Antoinette. |
| 1780 |
1st August: first appearance of Marie Antoinette on the
stage at the theatre of the Trianon. 29th November: death of the Empress Marie Therese of Austria, mother of Marie Antoinette. |
| 1781 |
22th October: Birth of the first son of Marie Antoinette, the Duphin, Louis-Joseph . |
| 1782 |
The Countess of Polignac is appointed governess of Marie Antionette's children, called "the children of France". Marie Antoinette is in charge of the Hameau in the park of the Petit Trianon. |
| 1783 | 3th September: peace treaty of Versailles by Great Britain and United States. |
| 1784 |
27th April: first performance of the "Marriage of Figaro". 11th August: Rohan meets the false Marie Antoinette in the Venus's grove. |
| 1785 |
29th Jenuary: Rohan buys the real
diamond necklace from Madame Lamotte. 27th march: Birth of Louis Charles de France, Duke of Normandy, and the future Louis XVII . 15th August: the Cardinal of Rohan is arrested at Versailles. |
| 1786 |
31th May: announcement of the court's sentence in the "Diamond Necklace" trial. 9th July: born the Princess Marie Sophie Elene Beatrix , fourth child of the Queen. Calonne publishes the bookkeeping of expenditues of the Royal's Household. Marie Antoinette is given the new nickname "Madame Deficit". |
| 1787 | Death of the Princess Sophie. |
| 1788 | Necker again becomes the Controller General of the Finances of France. |
| 1789 |
5th May: The Estates General is convened at Versailles. 3rd June: death of the first Dauphin, Louis-Joseph. The Duke of Normandy become the new Dauphin of France. 11th July: Necker is banished. 14th July: seizure of the Bastille. 16th August: start of the emigration of the nobles (Artois, and Polignac among the first). 4th August: proclamation of the Rights of the Man and of citizens. 1st October: The Royal family gives a banquet in honor of the bodyguard. 5th October: The Parisian women march on Versailles. 6th October: The Royal family is forced to move to the Place of the Tuilleries in Paris. |
| 1790 |
20th February: death of Joseph II and his brother Leopold II become the new Emperor of Austria. 3th July: Marie Antoinette meets with Mirabeau who promises to save the monarchy. |
| 1791 |
2th April: death of Mirabeau. 20th-25th June: the Royal family runs away from Paris trying to escape to Brussels in the Austrian Netherlands, but they are captured at Varennes. near the French frontier. 14th September: Louis XVI swear on the Costitution. |
| 1792 |
13th-14th February: Fersen comes back to see Marie Antoinette for the last time at the Tuileries. 20th February: Marie Antoinette goes for the last time to the teathre. 1st March: death of the Emperor Leopold II; the new Emperor of Austria becomes his son, Francis I. 29th March: death of King Gustav of Sweden. April: France declares war on Austria. 20th June: the Tuileries are toke by storm. 25th July: Publication of the Brunswick Manifesto in Paris. 10th August: The Tuileries palace stormed anew. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette seek refuge in the reporter's box of the Assembly, their guards are massacred and royal authority suspended. 13th August: The Royal family is moved to the Temple . 3th September: The Princess de Savoia-Carignano Marie Therese de Lamballe is guillotined. 21th September: proclamation of Repubblic. 11th December: Louis XVI placed on trial. |
| 1793 |
21th January, 10.20 a.m.: Louis XVI
is guillotined. 10th March: Marie Antoinette tries to escape from prison, helped by Toulan and Jarjayes. 3rd July: The Dauphin is taken away from his mother Marie Antoinette. 1st August: the " Autrichienne " is moved to solitary confinement in the Conciergerie prison. 12th October: first interrogatory of Marie Antoinette. 14th October: Marie Antoinette is placed on trial before the revolutionary tribunal. 16th October, 12.15 p.m.: Marie Antoinette is guillotined. |
| 1795 | 8th June: Believed to be the date of death of the Dauphin ( Louis XVII ). |
| 1814 |
Louis XVIII (Count of Provence, brother of Louis XVI) becomes King of France. |
| 1851 |
Death the Archduchess Marie Therese Charlotte, Madame Royale . |
