Timeline Saturday 27 August 1791

Events on Saturday 27 August 1791 1

• 1791 Declaration of Pillnitz issued Austria and Prussia threaten to intervene in France Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II and King Frederick William II of Prussia issued the Declaration of Pillnitz on 27 August 1791, asserting a shared interest in restoring Louis XVI's authority. Though hedged with conditions, revolutionaries in France read it as a direct threat of foreign invasion. It helped push France toward the war that broke out the following year.