Transcript The Storming of the Bastille, as depicted by Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (1790)

The Storming of the Bastille, as depicted by Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (1790)
FRANCE
1788
Financial crisis in France. The
French government declared
bankrupt.
1789
April: Riots in Paris, caused by low
wages and food shortages.
May: The Estates-General
(parliament) is summoned for the
first time since 1614
June: The Third Estate (commons)
declares itself to be the National
Assembly. When they are locked
out of the meeting house – they
believe by the king – they take on
oath not to dissolve until a
constitution has been established:
The Tennis Court Oath.
BRITAIN
AUSTEN
FRANCE
1789
Increasing unrest and rioting in Paris.
July 14: The Fall of the Bastille.
July/Aug: Peasantry revolt against
feudalism, which the National
Assembly abolishes. Many aristocrats
flee France.
National Assembly adopts ‘The
Declaration of the Rights of Man’
October: Paris mob storm the Palace of
Versailles stormed. King Louis XVI
moved to Paris.
BRITAIN
AUSTEN
FRANCE
BRITAIN
AUSTEN
1790
Suppression of religious orders.
Abolition of nobility. Growing power
of the Jacobin club.
Nov: Burke
publishes
Reflections on the
Revolution in
France.
Wollstonecraft
responds with A
Vindication of the
Rights of Men.
JA writes
Love and
Freindship.
1791
June: Royal family's flight to
Varennes. Louis XVI forced to return
to Paris.
Feb/March: Paine
Charles
publishes The Rights Austen enters
of Man Part 1.
naval
academy.
April: Parliament
rejects Wilberforce’s
bill to abolish the
slave trade.
August: Slaves revolt in the French
controlled island of St. Domingo
(Haiti).
1792
FRANCE
BRITAIN
AUSTEN
Food riots in Paris. Other European
monarchies begin to mobilize against
France. Guillotine adopted as official
means of execution.
Jan: Wollstonecraft
publishes A
Vindication of the
Rights of Woman.
JA writes the
last of her
‘Juvenilia’.
April: France declares war against
Austria
July: The Brunswick Manifesto warns that should the French royal
family be harmed by the popular
movement, revenge will follow.
Austria and Prussia begin invasion of
France.
August: Storming of the Tuileries
Palace. Swiss Guard massacred. Louis
XVI of France arrested.
FRANCE
1792
Sept: First session of National
Convention, which replaces the
Legislative Assembly. This
immediately abolishes the monarchy
and declares France a republic.
1793
January 21: Louis XVI (Citizen Louis
Capet) guillotined.
April-June: Committee of Public
Safety established. The Jacobins
quickly seize control.
July: Robespierre elected to
Committee of Public Safety.
BRITAIN
AUSTEN
Feb: Britain declares
war on France.
Henry Austen
becomes a
lieutenant in
the Oxfordshire militia.
James Gillray, The Blood of the
Murdered Crying for Vengeance
(Feb. 1793)
FRANCE
1793
BRITAIN
AUSTEN
May: Parliament
suspends habeas
corpus.
Feb: Eliza de
Feuillide's
husband
guillotined in
Paris.
Sept: Start of Reign of Terror.
Between 20,000 and 44,000 are
executed over the following year.
October: Marie Antoinette
guillotined. Anti-clerical law passed
(priests and supporters now liable to
death on sight).
1794
July: Robespierre arrested and
guillotined without trial, along with
other members of the Committee of
Public Safety. End of the Reign of
Terror.
Nov: Treason Trials.
All three accused are
acquitted.
JA probably
writes Lady
Susan.
FRANCE
1794
1795
BRITAIN
AUSTEN
Sept: Charles
Austen leaves
the Royal
Naval
Academy and
enters active
service.
The National Convention is dissolved. Oct: King George III’s JA writes
The Directory replaces it (5 ‘directors’ coach is attacked by Eleanor and
who held executive power).
a mob calling for
Marianne.
‘Bread’ and ‘Peace’.
Oct: Royalists attempt a coup. The
young General Napoleon Bonaparte
Dec: British
makes his name suppressing it.
government passes
the ‘Gagging Acts’.
FRANCE
BRITAIN
AUSTEN
1796
Napoleon assumes command of
French army in Italy.
Dec: Failed French
landing at Bantry
Bay, West Cork,
Ireland
JA begins
writing First
Impressions.
1797
Prussia and Austria cease hostilities
with France. Britain now fighting
France alone.
April–June: Naval
mutinies occur at
Spithead and the
Nore.
JA revising
Elinor &
Marianne;
First Impressions rejected
by publisher
1798
Aug: Battle of the Nile. Nelson’s fleet
defeats Napoleon’s in Egypt.
Spring: Invasion
scare in England.
JA writing
Susan
(eventually
May-Sept: Irish
becomes
Rebellion, led by the Northanger
United Irishmen.
Abbey).
FRANCE
1799
BRITAIN
AUSTEN
Act of Union unites
Britain and Ireland,
creating UK.
Austens
move to Bath
Napoleon Bonaparte named ‘First
Consul’: now the effective dictator.
1801
c
1802
Treaty of Amiens. Hostilities cease.
Winter: JA
revises Susan.
1803
Napoleon imprisons all British males
on French soil and re-engages Britain,
breaking the Treaty.
Susan sold to
publisher
with HA’s aid
1804
Napoleon made Emperor.
JA writing
The Watsons.
James Gillray, Buonaparte, 48 Hours
after Landing (July 1803)
FRANCE
1805
BRITAIN
Oct: Battle of Trafalgar. Nelson killed.
AUSTEN
JA’s father
dies
1807
British parliament
abolishes the slave
trade (not slavery).
1810
George III declared
insane.
1811
The Prince of Wales
becomes Prince
Regent.
Luddites riots:
protests against
industrialization.
JA begins
work on
Mansfield
Park.
Oct: S & S
anonymously
published.
1812
FRANCE
BRITAIN
June: Napoleon invades Russia.
United States
declares war on GB.
AUSTEN
Oct: Napoleon’s defeated army
retreats from Russia.
1813
British invasion of France.
1814
Allies enter Paris. Napoleon
overthrown and exiled to the island
of Elba. The French monarchy is
restored under Louis XVIII.
Jan: Pride
and Prejudice
published.
Aug: GB forces take
control of
Washington DC &
burn the White
House.
Jan: JA begins
writing
Emma.
May:
Mansfield
Dec: Treaty of Ghent Park
ends war between
published.
GB and the US.
FRANCE
1815
BRITAIN
AUSTEN
March-July: ‘The Hundred Days’.
Napoleon escapes from Elba and
returns to Paris, where he regains
power.
Aug: JA
begins
writing
Persuasion.
June: Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon
finally defeated by Prussian and
British forces under the command of
the Duke of Wellington.
Dec: Emma
published.
Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to
the remote South Atlantic island of
Saint Helena (where he dies in 1821).
1816
Post-war economic
depression. Popular
political unrest
calling for reform.
JA buys Susan
back from
publisher.
FRANCE
1817
BRITAIN
AUSTEN
Jan-March: JA
works on
novel later
published as
Sanditon.
18 July: JA
dies.
Dec:
Northanger
Abbey and
Persuasion
are published
with Henry's
‘Biographical
Notice of the
Author’.