Timeline of the French Revolution. See also History of France.

January 24: Summoning of the States-General
May 5: Meeting of the States-General
June 17: National Assembly declared
June 20: Tennis Court Oath
July 9: National Constituent Assembly declared
July 11: Necker dismissed
July 14: Storming of the Bastille
August 4: Surrender of feudal rights
August 27: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
October 5-6: Outbreak of the Paris mob; Liberal monarchical constitution

July 14: Constitution accepted by King Louis XVI
July -- : Growing power of the clubs (including: Cordeliers, Jacobin Club)
July -- : Reorganisation of Paris
September: Fall of Necker

April 2: Death of Mirabeau
June 20-25: Flight to Varennes of the royal family
July 17: Champ-de-Mars massacre
September 30: Dissolution of the National Constituent Assembly
October 1: Legislative Assembly meets
August 27: Declaration of Pillnitz ( Frederick William II and Leopold II)

February 7: Alliance of Austria and Prussia
April 20: French declare war against Austria
August 10: Storming of the Tuileries
September 2-7: The September Massacres
September 20: Battle of Valmy
September 21: National Convention meets; Abolition of the monarchy
December: Trial of Louis XVI before the Convention

January 21: Execution of Louis XVI
February 1: War declared against Britain, Holland, Spain
March -- : Royalist revolt in the Vendée
April -- : Power centered in the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security
June 2: Arrest of 31 Girondist deputies
July 13: Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
August 23: Levy of entire male population
September 17: Establishment of the maximum price
October 16: Execution of Marie Antoinette
October 31: Execution of Girondists
November 10: Abolition of the worship of god: Cult of Reason
December -- : Retreat of the allies across the Rhine

January 19 : English land in Corsica
February 4 : Abolition of slavery in colonies
March 24 : Execution of the Hébertists
April 6 : Execution of the Dantonists
June 8 : Festival of the Supreme Being
June 10 : Law of 22 Prairial (power to the Revolutionary Tribunal)
June 26 : Battle of Fleurus (1794) (French victory in Belgium)
July 27 : Fall of Maximilian Robespierre (9 Thermidor)
December 24 : Repeal of maximum

March 5 : Treaty of Basel (Prussia withdraws from war)
April 1 : Bread riots in Paris
June 8 : Death of the dauphin ( Louis XVII)
August 22 : Constitution of 1795
October 5 : Napoleon's "whiff of grape-shot"
October 26 : Convention dissolved; Directory begins

March 5 : War against the Holy Roman Empire
March 9 Marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine
May 10 Battle of Lodi (Napoleon in Italy)
July Siege of Mantua

April 18 Preliminary Peace of Leoben
July 8 : Cisalpine Republic established
September 4 : Coup d'Etat at Paris (republicans over reactionaries)
October 17 : Treaty of Campo Formio

February -- : Roman Republic proclaimed
April -- : Helvetian Republic proclaimed
July 21 : Battle of the Pyramids
August 1 : Battle of the Nile
December 24 : Alliance between Russia and Britain

1799 - Beginning of the Napoleonic Era

June 17-19 : Battle of the Trebia (Suvorov defeats French)
August 24 : Napoleon leaves Egypt
October 22 : Russians withdraw from coalition
November 9 : The Coup d'Etat of Brumaire (18 Brumaire): end of the Directory
December 24 : Constitution of the Year VIII: Dictatorship of Napoleon established under the Consulate