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1789 CE: The Estates-General convenes in Versailles for the first time in 175 years.
1789 CE: The Bastille in Paris is stormed.
1791 CE: Austria and Prussia release the Declaration of Pillnitz, threatening Revolutionary France with military action.
1792 CE: Revolutionary France declares war on Austria, sparking the War of the First Coalition.
1792 CE: The Battle of Valmy results in a French victory over Prussian invaders.
1792 CE: The Battle of Jemappes results in a victory for the French Republic over an Austrian army, allowing for the French conquest of Belgium.
1793 CE: The French Republic calls for 300,000 new soldiers to be raised, by conscription if necessary, prompting revolt across the nation.
1793 CE: The Battle of Neerwinden results in an Austrian victory, driving the French Republican forces from Belgium.
1793 CE: The levée en masse is enacted, flooding France's armies with conscripts.
1793 CE: The Battle of Hondschoote results in a victory for the French Republic over an Anglo-Hanoverian army during the French Revolutionary Wars.
1793 CE: Battle of Hondschoote results in victory for the French Republic over an Anglo-Hanoverian-Hessian army
1793 CE: Battle of Menin results in a victory for the French Republic over a Dutch army.
1793 CE: General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan takes command of the French Army of the North during the War of the First Coalition.
1793 CE: Battle of Wattignies results in victory for the French Republic over an Austrian army.
1793 CE - 1794 CE: Drownings at Nantes; between 1,100 and 4,000 Vendean rebels and Catholic clerics are drowned in the Loire River by French Republican soldiers.
1794 CE: The French are victorious at the Battle of Fleurus; their armies remain ascendent for the rest of the War of the First Coalition.
1795 CE: The Dutch Republic falls and is replaced by the Batavian Republic, first of the French satellite states known as sister republics.
1795 CE: Prussia and Spain exit the French Revolutionary Wars with the treaties of Basel.
1796 CE - 1797 CE: Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian Campaign.
1797 CE: Austria and France sign the Treaty of Campo Formio, ending the War of the First Coalition.
1798 CE - 1801 CE: Napoleon's Campaign in Egypt and Syria serves as a catalyst for the formation of the Second Coalition.
1798 CE: The French fleet anchored at Aboukir Bay is completely destroyed by a British fleet under Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile.
1798 CE - 1802 CE: The War of the Second Coalition.
1799 CE: French General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan is defeated by a larger Austrian army under Archduke Charles at the Battle of Stockach.
1799 CE: Russian Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov takes command of Allied forces in Italy.
1799 CE: The Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland, led by the Duke of York, ends in failure.
1799 CE: The Second Battle of Zurich results in a French victory against an Austro-Russian army.
1800 CE: First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte narrowly defeats an Austrian army at the Battle of Marengo.
1800 CE: French General Jean-Victor Moreau beats the Austrians at the Battle of Hohenlinden.
1801 CE: The British attack a Danish fleet at the First Battle of Copenhagen, because of Denmark's participation in the League of Armed Neutrality.
1802 CE: The French Republic and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Amiens, ending hostilities between the two nations.