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1789
- May: Louis-Antoine Saint-Just publishes his poem Organt
- May: Maximilien Robespierre returns to Paris, acquiring growing recognition with the Jacobin Club
- May 5: The Estates General opens at Versailles
- June 17: The Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly
- June 20: The Tennis Court Oath
- July 14: The Fall of the Bastille
- Late July: The Great Fear spreads in the countryside
- August 4: The nobles surrender their feudal rights in a meeting of the National Constituent Assembly
- August 27: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
- October 5-6: Parisian women march to Versailles and force Louis XVI and his family to return to Paris
1790
- July 12: Civil Constitution of the Clergy adopted
- July 14: The king accepts a new constitution
1791
- Saint-Just publishes his widely popular L'Esprit de la R�volution
- June 20-24: Louis XVI and his family attempt to flee France and are stopped at Varennes
- August 27: The Declaration of Pillnitz
- October 1: The Legislative Assembly meets
1792
- April 20: France declares war on Austria
- August 10: The Tuileries palace is stormed, and Louis XVI takes refuge with the Legislative Assembly
- September 2-7: The September Massacres
- September 20: France wins the battle of Valmy
- September 21: The monarchy is abolished
1793
- January: Saint-Just associates himself with the Jacobin Club
- January 21: Louis XVI is executed
- February 1: France declares war on Great Britain
- March: Counter-revolution breaks out in the Vendee
- April: The Committee of Public Safety is formed
- June 22: The Constitution of 1793 is adoptedm although it fails to be put into effect
- July 10: Saint-Just is appointed to the Committee of Public Safety
- July 27: Maximilien Robespierre is appointed to the Committee of Public Safety
- August 23: The levee en masse is proclaimed
- September: The Law of Suspects is established
- September 17: Maximum prices set on food and other commodities
- October 16: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed
- November 10: The Cult of Reason is proclaimed, and the revolutionary calendar is adopted
1794
- March 24: Execution of the Hebertist leaders
- April 6: Execution of Danton
- May 7: Cult of the Supreme Being proclaimed
- May 23: Two assassins make separate attempts on Robespierre's life
- June 8: Robespierre leads the celebration of the Festival of the Supreme Being.
- June 10: The Law Of 22 Prairial is adopted
- July 24: (6 Thermidor) Saint-Just heads an attempt at reconciliation within the Committee and fails
- July 26: (8 Thermidor) Robespierre delivers his last speech at the Convention
- July 27: (9 Thermidor) The fall of Robespierre and associates
- July 28: Robespierre, Saint-Just, and associates are executed
1794 - 1799
1795
- August 22: The Directory is established
1799
- Napoleon Bonaparte overthrows the Directory, seizing power in a coup d'etat
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