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• April 2: Mirabeau dies. • April 13: The Pope condemns the Civil Constitution. • April 18: The King is prevented from leaving Paris to spend Easter at Saint-Cloud. • May: Avignon is occupied by French forces. • May 16: Self-Denying Decree: National Assembly deputies cannot be elected to the Legislative Assembly. • June 14: Le Chapelier Law stopping workers associations and strikes. • June 20: Flight to Varennes; the King and Queen attempt to flee France but only get as far as Varennes. • June 24: Cordelier organises a petition stating that liberty and royalty cannot co-exist. • July 16: The Constituent Assembly declares that the king was the victim of an abduction plot. • July 17: Massacre at the Champs de Mars, when National Guard open fire on republican demonstrators. • August 14: Slave rebellion begins in Saint-Domingue. • August 27: Declaration of Pillnitz: Austria and Prussia threaten to take action in support of the French king. • September 13: The King accepts the new constitution. • September 14: King swears the oath of allegiance to the new constitution. • September 30: The National Assembly is dissolved. • October 1: The Legislative Assembly convenes. • October 20: Brissot's first calls for war against the émigrés. • November 9: Decree against the émigrés; if they do not return they will be considered traitors. • November 12: The King vetoes the émigrés decree. • November 29: Decree against refractory priests; they will be considered suspects unless they take a civic oath. • December 14: Louis XVI requests the Elector of Trier disperse émigrés or face military action. • December 19: The King vetoes the decree against refractory priests. Next page > 1792 > Page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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