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| 1778 |
| | | France, joining the American colonies in their fight against Britain, sends a large fleet across the Atlantic | |
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| 1778 |
| | | The British rapidly abandon Philadelphia on news of the expected arrival of a French fleet | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Louis XVI and his family attempt to flee from Paris to the border but are captured at Varennes | |
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| 1792 |
| | | France declares war on the Austrian emperor, an event that plunges Europe into more than 20 years of conflict | |
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| 1792 |
| | | A French revolutionary army defeats the Austrians and Prussians at Valmy, and thus saves Paris from attack | |
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| 1792 |
| | | After their success at Valmy, French republican armies overrun much of the Austrian Netherlands | |
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| 1792 |
| | | The National Convention abolishes royalty in France and establishes the first republic | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Louis XVI is guillotined after a majority of just one in the national Convention has voted for death without delay | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Britain joins other European nations in war against France, mainly in naval engagements in the West Indies and Atlantic | |
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| 1793 |
| | | France becomes the first nation to attempt national conscription, calling up bachelors between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five | |
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