Timeline (A Queen of the French?)

This is an abridged timeline of the A Queen of the French?, for the most part only differences from OTL are noted, so for example things such as Queens Victorias ascension to the throne of the UK would not be noted as it happened as in OTL. As Such lots of the events will be focused on France until the aftereffects ripple through world history.

1830's

 * 1830: The July Revolution brings down the restored bourbon monarchy
 * 1830: Adélaïde Du Orleans becomes regent of France for the Young Henri I
 * 1831: Bread riots break out in Paris and are disolved by the National Guard
 * 1831: Although nearly twenty years her senior Lafyette marries Queen Regent Adélaïde, the wedding is seen to represent the permenant fusion of Lafyette's liberal nobles to the Queen Regents Constitutional Monarchy.
 * 1831: A revised version of the Constitution of 1791 is adopted by the House of Peers and Commons
 * 1831: The French army announces victory in its conquest of Algeria.
 * 1831: The first election under the new constitution are carried out, returning a large majority for the liberal constitutionalist Doctrinaires, Jacques Laffitte becomes Prime Minister.
 * 1832: Jacques Laffitte's ministry imposes universal taxation, along the lines of the constitution, angering much of the Nobility. A strong Harvest takes the sting out of the new taxes however.
 * 1832: Foreign Minister Tallyrand organises the partition of Belgium, angering the British but bringing the United Kingdom of the Netherlands into the French sphere of influence for the first time since the fall of the Batavian Republic.
 * 1832: A bad winter ruins many crops in the countryside.
 * 1833: The bad harvest drives up bread prices, causing another round of riots. Despite urging from the Queen Regent Jacques Laffitte refuses to impose price controls, claiming that they will ruin the economy.
 * 1833: A group of disaffected Ultra royalists (Ultra's) agitate for price controls in local markets and secretly start arming peasant levys.
 * 1833: Ultra's attempt to stage a coup, aiming to sieze prince Henri and install a new reactionary council of state. The National Guard flood the streets, crushing the rebellion.
 * 1833: At the prompting of Lafayette and conscious that the National Guard might not tolerate crushing another bread riot the Queen Regent dismisses Laffitte and calls for new elections.
 * 1833: The new election return a mix of conservative ultra's and Lafyettes new Jacobins. As a condition of the compromise that allows them to form a government Adélaïde is officially crowned Queen. Tallyrand, old and mostly bedridden at this point becomes Prime Minister. Price controls on bread are imposed, paid for by increased taxes on the increasingly wealthy bourgeois classes.
 * 1834: Lafayette dies, his funeral is attended by millions and his body interned with the Royal Family.
 * 1834: A large body of women march on the Palais Royale, demanding equality for women before the law. Tallyrand calls out the National Guard but they refuse to act.
 * 1835: Adélaïde writes a public editorial, expressing her support for the women of France. Tallyrand is privately furious but does not act.
 * 1835: The Women of Paris walk out of work and there homes, declaring a national women's strike, supported by some of the very radical presses.
 * 1835: Élie-Louis Decazes, minister of the Interior is forced to resign when it is revealed that he attempted to order the Royal Guard to disperse the Women's Strike
 * 1836: After four months of the Women's Strike Queen Adélaïde decides to temporarily abandon her supposed non-partisan position to issue a proclamation ordering the courts to treat women equally to men, although they can as yet not vote.
 * 1837: In December Tallyrand tenders his resignation, noting that his old age prevents him from continuing to serve. Adélaïde convinces him to stay on to April 1838, noting that this is when the House of Peers and the General Assembly will be up for election again and that this would mark the first full term of office.
 * 1838: It is discovered by Albertine Necker that the Jury rolls, that contain all eligible voters, do not include women.
 * 1838: Women in Paris again engage in an informal strike, with the rallying cry The Queen cannot speak for all Women. Tallyrand again atempts to use the National Guard to disperse the mob but again is rebuffed by the new commander of the National Guard, Citizen Prince Henri.
 * 1838: Possibly acting out of genuine concern, or at the very least realising that many of Paris's most prominent salons and reading rooms, including several in the Palais Royale are run by women, Tallyrand caves and orders the immediate drafting of a new amendment to the constitution to grant the vote to women.
 * 1838: The Constitutional committee anounces that they will need to delay the election until 1839 if they are to allow women to vote. The Queen agrees but Tallyrand, who feels that he can no longer stand another year as prime minister resigns. Adélaïde offers the Prime Ministership temporarily to her brother, Phillipe du Orleans.
 * 1839: The constitution is amended to allow women to vote on the same grounds as men. Due to the restrictive property requirements as few as 5,000 women are enfranchised but the symbolic victory ends the Women's strikes that had been having such a bad effect on French society.
 * 1839: Perhaps as a reaction to the Queens supposed radical reforms the Ultra's sweep the 1839 elections forcing Adélaïde to appoint the moderate Ultra Casimir-Louis-Victurnien de Rochechouart de Mortemart (More casually Mortemart) as Prime Minister.