Chronological Table

1755	2nd November	Birth of Marie Antoinette.
1769	7th June	Written demand of Marie Antoinette’s hand for his son made by Louis XV.
1770	19th April	Marriage per procurationem in Vienna.
	16th May	Marriage at Versailles.
	24th December	Choiseul falls into disgrace.
1772	11th January	Rohan arrives in Vienna.
	5th August	First Partition of Poland.
1773	8th June	Entry of the Dauphiness into Paris.
1774	10th May	Death of Louis XV.
		The necklace is offered to Marie Antoinette for the first time.—Fersen’s first visit to Versailles.—Recall of Rohan from Vienna.—Beaumarchais sells his lampoon to Maria Theresa.
1777	April–May	Joseph II’s visit to Versailles.
	August	The marriage of Louis and Marie Antoinette at length consummated.
1778	19th December	Birth of Maria Theresa Charlotte, ‘Madame Royale’, in later days Duchess of Angoulême.
1779		First pamphlet against Marie Antoinette.
1780	1st August	First appearance at the Trianon Theatre.
	29th November	Death of Maria Theresa.
1781	22nd October	Birth of the first Dauphin.
1783	3rd September	Peace of Versailles.—Recognition of the United States by England.
1784	27th April	First night of Le Marriage de Figaro at the Théâtre Français.
	11th August	Concocted meeting with Rohan in the Grove of Venus.
1785	29th January	Rohan buys the necklace.
	27th March	Birth of the second Dauphin.
	15th August	Arrest of Rohan at Versailles.
	19th August	Performance of Le Barbier de Séville at the rianon, this being the last performance at the Trianon Theatre.
1786	31st May	Judgement delivered upon the affair affair of the necklace.
	9th July	Birth of Princess Sophie Béatrix.
1788		Early days of the intimacy with Fersen.
	8th August	Summoning of the States-General for 1st May 1789.
1789		Necker again Minister of State.
	5th May	Opening of the States-General.
	3rd June	Death of the first Dauphin.
	17th June	The Third Estate declares itself to be the National Assembly.
	20th June	Oath of the Tennis Court.
	25th June	Freedom of the press.
	11th July	Necker expelled from France.
	13th July	Creation of the National Guard.
	14th July	Storming of the Bastille.
	16th July	Flight of the émigrés begins (Artois, Polignac).
	End of August	Fersen at Versailles.
	1st October	Banquet to the Flemish regiment.
	5th October	March of the Parisian populace to Versailles.
	6th October	Drive of the royal family to Paris.—Founding of the Jacobin Club in Paris.
1790	20th February	Death of Joseph II.
	4th June	Last Summer Stay at Saint-Cloud.
	3rd July	Meeting with Mirabeau.
1791	2nd April	Death of Mirabeau.
	20th–25th June	Flight to Varennes.—Barnave and his friends in the Tuileries.
	14th September	The King swears to maintain the Constitution.
	1st October	Legislative Assembly.
1792	13th–14th February	Fersen’s final visit to the Tuileries.
	20th February	For the last time Marie Antoinette goes to the theatre.
	1st March	Death of Leopold II.
	24th March	Roland Ministry.
	29th March	Death of King Gustavus III of Sweden.
	20th April	France declares war on Austria.
	13th June	Dismissal of the Roland Ministry.
	19th June	The King exercises his constitutional right of veto.
	20th June	First storming of the Tuileries.
	10th August	Second storming of the Tuileries.—Danton becomes Minister for Justice.
	13th August	Suspension of the royal authority.—Transference of the royal family to the Temple.
	22nd August	First rising in Vendée.
	2nd September	Fall of Verdun.
	2nd–5th September	The September massacres.
	3rd September	Murder of the Princess de Lamballe.
	20th September	French victory over the Prussians at Valmy.
	21st September	First meeting of the National Convention.—Abolition of the Monarchy, es-establishment of the Republic.
	6th November	French victory over the Austrians at Jemappes.
	11th December	Opening of the trial of Louis XVI.
1793	4th January	Second Partition of Poland.
	21st January	Execution of Louis XVI.
	10th March	Establishment of the Revolutionary Tribunal.
	31st March	Evacuation of Belgium by the French.
	4th April	Dumouriez’s desertion to the enemy.
	29th May	Rising in Lyons.
	3rd July	Separation of the Dauphin from Marie Antoinette.
	1st August	Marie Antoinette’s removal to the Conciergerie.
	3rd October	Prosecution of the Girondists.
	9th October	Fall of Lyons.
	12th October	Preliminary hearing of Marie Antoinette.
	14th October	Opening of Marie Antoinette’s trial.
	16th October	Execution of the Queen.
1795	8th June	Alleged death of the Dauphin (‘Louis XVII’).
1814		Louis XVIII, sometime Count of Provence, becomes King of France.
1824		Charles X, sometime Count of Artois, becomes King of France.