When did the french revolution occur?

Question

I would like to have the years please. I have already looked at multiple internet sources but I have only found the year when the reign of terror ended and a vague idea of the year, but I would like to know the exact years.
Thankyou for you r help.
REsources would be greatly apreciated or if you can tell me where you heard it it would be great.

Answer 1

There were rumblings in the bourgeoisie for a few years before the Revolution began:

"The bourgeoisie became impatient, especially after the failure of the Revolt of the Notables and the Revolt of the Parlements to tax themselves in 1787. The king was taken aback by demands for democracy but had to agree to an Estates-General to obtain money. The National Assembly, set up in June 1789 after the Tennis Court Oath, was forced on Louis XVI, who saw it as a temporary measure until he could regain total control."

The intellectuals became impatient and roused the mob, especially in Paris, to add weight to their arguments. The mob got out of hand, for example on 14 July 1789 when they stormed the Bastille in Paris." (This is generally taken as the date it began.)

"On 9 November 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte seized power in the Coup d'état de Brumaire and made himself First Consul. (The date when the Revolution ended.) In 1804 he was crowned Emperor and from then until June 1815, France was governed as a military dictatorship under what effectively was an absolutist régime with Napoleon pursuing the quest for empire. The wheel had gone full circle."

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/adw03/c-eight/france/frevents.htm

The above is a good general timeline on the Revolution; there are many excellent books - I recommend Christopher Hibbert's (can't remember the name! I lent it to someone!), which is immensely readable and full of human detail.

Here is another excellent timeline:

http://www.marxists.org/history/france/revolution/timeline.htm

Answer 2

The Jacobite Revolution, The Rise and Fall of the Guillotine (no pun intended) :), The Bloody Revolution, The Revolt of the Working Class (or Peasants, or Commoner, Common Man, etc.)

Answer 3

From 1789 to 1799

Answer 4

You might want to read Chapter 8 of Norman Davies Book, " Europe a History"