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- 5 May 1789 - Calling of the Estates-General of 1789
- 17 June 1789 - National Assembly
- 20 June 1789 - Tennis Court Oath
- 27 June 1789 - Academy of Sciences appointed a commission (committee - St Andrews, biography of Laplace) to study weights and measures. (Konvitz pg 46)
- 9 July 1789 - Formation of the National Constituent Assembly
- 14 July 1789 - Storming of the Bastille
- 4 August 1789- Nobles surrender right to set weights and measures (Alder pg 88)
- 9 March 1790 - Talleyrand presents report - units based on nature (Hellman p 315), (Alder p90)
- 27 October 1790 - Metric Committee suggested decimal scale for weights, measures and money (Glasser p 71-2)
- 17 March 1791 - Metric committee presents report
- 30 March 1791 - Talleyrand decree
- ??-Apr-1791 French Constituent Assembly set up a committee
- 19 June 1791 - Royal audience (Alder pg 21)
- 21 June 1791 - Flight to Varennes
- 24 June 1791 - Royal seal received (ALder pg 21)
- 1 September 1791 - formation of the Legislative Assembly (France)
- 20 September 1792 - Formation of the National Convention
- 21 January 1793 - Execution of Louis XVI
- April 1793 - Formation of the Committee of Public Safety
- 27 May 1793 -
- 1 August 1793 - Temporary metre
- 8 August 1793 - Supression of Academy
- 5 September 1793 - Start of the Reign of Terror
- 11 September 1793 - Fourcroy ensures that work on weights and measures should continue and the title of "commission temporaire". (Nearly full memebership)
- 28 July 1794 - End of Reign of Terror
- 7 April 1795 - publication of draft metric system
- June 1795 - commission temporaire become "Agence Temporaire des Poids et Mesures"
- 22 August 1795 - National Institute of Sciences and Arts established
- 24 October 1795 - National Institute charged to take on work of agence tempoiraire
- 2 November 1795 - Formation of the French Directory
- 4 April 1796 - Lois 15 Germinal IV - National Institute, which had replaced the academies, charge of all scientific operations pertaining to fixing the units of weights and measures.
- 1796-8 - agence temporaire became "Office for Weights and Measures" under the Minister of the Interior.
- September 1798 - Commission des poids et mesures formed by French Commissioners and foreign deputies from various states friendly to France. Examined results of of Mechelin & Delambre