Abundance Timeline Marie Antoinette and the Age of Revolution A Brief Timeline of Events Informing Sena Jeter Naslund's Abundance 1755     The youngest daughter of Empress Regnant Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I is born in Vienna on November 2. She is christened Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen. 1766     A French marriage alliance is proposed by Vienna to preserve the amity established by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) and the Seven Years' War. 1769     Louis XV requests the hand of the Archduchess Maria Antonia for his grandson and heir, the Dauphin Louis-Auguste. 1770     Bridal journey commences from Vienna through southern Germany and Strasbourg and on to Versailles for the royal wedding of Louis-Auguste and Marie Antoinette on May 16 (see ABUNDANCE, Act One, Chapters 1-10). The marriage is not consummated for many years. 1774     Louis XV dies on the tenth of May; Louis XVI and nineteen-year-old Marie Antoinette ascend to the French throne (Act Two, "Catastrophe"). 1778     Marie Antoinette gives birth to Marie Thérèse Charlotte on December 19 (Act Three, "The Générale Is Tardy!" and "Giving Birth"). 1781     Louis Joseph is born October 22 (Act Four, "The Hope of France"). 1785     The Affair of the Diamond Necklace does much to accelerate popular dislike of the queen and burnish her reputation as "Madame Déficite" (Act Four, "A Hoax in Diamonds" through "Portrait in Red"). The beloved Louis-Charles is born March 27. 1787     Marie's second daughter, Sophie Béatrix dies shortly before her first birthday (Act Four, "Sophie"). This loss is followed by the death of seven-year-old Louis Joseph in June of 1789 ("Grief"). 1789     Mob destroys the Bastille Prison in Paris on July 14. Outbreak of the French Revolution. Royal court forcibly moved to Paris (Act Four, "The Revolution of 1789"; Act Five, "The Tuileries"). Market women of Paris march to Versailles and force the Royal Family to live under supervision in Paris. 1791     The Royal Family's flight from Paris is foiled near the French border ("Escape from Paris "). 1792     Revolutionaries storm the Tuileries and imprison the family in the Temple Fortress. Louis XVI is tried for treason on December 11 and subsequently condemned to death ("The Tower, 1792," "Terror, Fury, and Horror Seize the Earthly Powers"). 1793 January 20th     King Louis XVI is executed. Marie Antoinette is separated from her children and incarcerated on the Ile de la Cité in the Seine River. October 16th     Queen Marie Antoinette is publicly executed by guillotine.