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Timeline of the French Revolution

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The following is a timeline of theFrench Revolution.

French Revolution
The execution ofLouis XVI on thePlace de la Révolution (nowPlace de la Concorde) (January 21, 1793)
Date	1789–1799
Location	France
Participants	French society
Outcome	Abolition of theFrench monarchy Establishment of a secular and democratic republic that became increasingly authoritarian and militaristic Radical social change based onliberalism and otherEnlightenment principles Rise ofNapoleon Bonaparte Armed conflicts with other European countries

Pre-1788 – The pre-revolution; challenging absolutism

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19 January 1771: Beginning of the "Maupeou Coup" against theparlements, one of the few checks on the authority of the crown. Seeking popularity,Louis XVI reinstated the parlements soon after his coronation.^[1]
May 3 1775: The king's safety is threatened during the "flour war," a wave of peasant riots that presage revolts during the revolution.^[2] (Popkin 65)
1776:Charles Vergennes convinces the king to provide financial support to the rebels in the American War of Independence, greatly increasing the nation's debt. (Popkin 69)
May 8 1776: The king is forced to resort to alit de justice to compel the Paris Parlement to accept reforms proposed byTurgot. (Popkin 68)
February 1781:Jacques Necker publishes theCompte Rendu, a report of state accounts that obfuscates the nation's financial problems. (Popkin 72)
August 1786: Finance MinisterCalonne warns the king of imminent bankruptcy. (Popkin 75)
February - May 1787: The king convenes theAssembly of Notables, which refuses to support the crown's efforts to raise more funds. (Popkin 78-88)

1788 – The royal treasury is empty; prelude to revolution

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Louis XVI in 1776
Étienne Charles de Brienne, minister of finance 1787-88
Jacques Necker, minister of finance 1788-90

May 6: Arrest ofDuval d'Eprémesnil, member of the Paris Parlement, for leading resistance to royal absolutism. (Popkin 94)
June 7:Day of the Tiles inGrenoble, first revolt against the king.
July 21:Assembly of Vizille, assembly of the Estates-General ofDauphiné.
August 8: The royal treasury is declared empty, and theParlement of Paris refuses to reform the tax system or loan the Crown more money. To win their support for fiscal reforms, the Minister of Finance,Brienne, sets May 5, 1789, for a meeting of theEstates General, an assembly of the nobility, clergy, and commoners (the Third Estate), which has not met since 1614.
August 16: The treasury suspends payments on the debts of the government.
August 25: Brienne resigns as Minister of Finance, and is replaced by the Swiss bankerJacques Necker, who is popular with the Third Estate. French bankers and businessmen, who have always held Necker in high regard, agree to loan the state 75 million, on the condition that the Estates General will have full powers to reform the system. Necker was labelled an "author of the revolution" by Napoleon.^[3]
December 27: Over the opposition of the nobles, Necker announces that the representation of the Third Estate will be doubled and that nobles and clergymen will be eligible to sit with the Third Estate.^[4]

1789 – The Revolution Begins; the Estates-General and the Constituent Assembly

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The King opens the meeting of the Estates-General (May 5, 1789)
Cartoon showing the Third Estate carrying the weight of the clergy and the nobility (1789)
TheTennis Court Oath (June 20, 1789), by Couder

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, who proposed that the Third Estate become the National Assembly (June 10, 1789)

January 1789

January: The AbbéEmmanuel Joseph Sieyès publishes a pamphlet,What is the Third Estate? he writes; "What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing. What does it demand to be? Something." The pamphlet is widely distributed.
January 24: King Louis XVI convokes elections for delegates to the Estates-General^[5]

April 1789

April 27: Riots in Paris by workers of theRéveillon wallpaper factory in theFaubourg Saint-Antoine. Twenty-five workers were killed in battles with police.

May 1789

May 2: Presentation to the King of the Deputies of the Estates-General at Versailles. The clergy and nobles are welcomed with formal ceremonies and processions, the Third Estate is not.
May 5: Formal opening of the Estates-General at Versailles.
May 6: The Deputies of the Third Estate refuses to meet separately from the other Estates, occupy the main hall, and invite the clergy and nobility to join them.
May 11: The nobility refuses to meet together with the Third Estate, but the clergy hesitates, and suspends the verification of its deputies.
May 20: The clergy renounces its special tax privileges, and accepts the principle of fiscal equality.
May 22: The nobility renounces its special tax privileges. However, the three estates are unable to agree on a common program.
May 25: The Third Estate deputies from Paris, delayed by election procedures, arrive in Versailles.

Jean Sylvain Bailly, leader of the Third Estate (1789)

June 1789

June 3: The scientistJean Sylvain Bailly is chosen the leader of the Third Estate deputies.
June 4: Upon the death of seven-year-oldLouis Joseph Xavier François, Dauphin of France, the eldest son and heir of Louis XVI, his four-year-old brother,Louis-Charles, Duke of Normandy, becomes the new Dauphin.
June 6: The deputies of the nobility reject a compromise program proposed by finance ministerJacques Necker.
June 10: At the suggestion ofSieyès, the Third Estate deputies decide to hold their own meeting, and invite the other Estates to join them.
June 13–14: Nine deputies from the clergy decide to join the meeting of the Third Estate.
June 17: On the proposal of Sieyès, the deputies of the Third Estate declare themselves theNational Assembly. To ensure popular support, they decree that taxes need only be paid while the Assembly is in session.
June 19: By a vote of 149 to 137, the deputies of the clergy join the assembly of the Third Estate.
June 20: On the orders of Louis XVI, the meeting hall of the Third Estate is closed and locked. At the suggestion of Dr.Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the deputies gather instead in the indoor tennis court, where they swear not to separate until they have given France a new Constitution (theTennis Court Oath).
June 21: The Royal Council rejects the financial program of Minister Necker.
June 22: The new National Assembly meets in thechurch of Saint Louis in Versailles. One hundred fifty deputies from the clergy attend, along with two deputies from the nobility.
June 23: Louis XVI personally addresses the Estates-General (aSéance royale), where he invalidates the decisions of the National Assembly and instructs the three estates to continue to meet separately. The king departs followed by the Second- and most of the First-Estate deputies, but the Third-Estate deputies remain in the hall. When the king's master of ceremonies reminds them that Louis has invalidated their decrees, theComte de Mirabeau, Third-Estate deputy from Aix, boldly shouts that "we are assembled here by the will of the people" and that they would "leave only at the point of a bayonet".
June 25: 48 nobles, headed byLouis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, join the Assembly.
June 27: Louis XVI reverses course, instructs the nobility and clergy to meet with the other estates, and recognizes the new Assembly. At the same time, he orders reliable military units, largely composed of Swiss and German mercenaries, to Paris.
June 30: A crowd invades the prison of the Abbey ofSaint-Germain-des-Prés and liberates soldiers who had been imprisoned for attending meetings of political clubs.

July 1789

July 6: The National Assembly forms a committee of thirty members to write a new Constitution.
July 8: As tensions mount, theComte de Mirabeau, Third-Estate deputy from Aix, demands that theGardes Françaises of themilitary household of the king of France be moved out of Paris, and that a new civil guard be created within the city.
July 9: The National Assembly reconstitutes itself as theNational Constituent Assembly.
July 11: Louis XVI abruptly dismisses Necker. Parisians respond by burning the unpopular customs barriers, and invading and looting the monastery of theLazaristes. Skirmishes between the cavalrymen of theRégiment de Royal-Allemand of the King's Guard and the angry crowd outside theTuileries Palace. TheGardes Françaises largely take the side of the crowd.
July 13: The National Assembly declares itself in permanent session. At theHôtel de Ville, city leaders begin to form a governing committee and an armed militia.
July 14:Storming of the Bastille. A large armed crowd besieges the Bastille, which holds only seven prisoners but has a large supply of gunpowder, which the crowd wants. After several hours of resistance, the governor of the fortressde Launay, finally surrenders; as he exits, he is killed by the crowd. The crowd also killsde Flesselles, the provost of the Paris merchants.

July 14, 1789 – The Siege and Surrender of the Bastille

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German soldiers of the King's guard skirmish with theGardes-Française in Paris (July 12, 1789)
Storming of the Bastille (July 14, 1789)
Parade of the heads of the governor of the Bastille and the Provost of Paris merchants (July 14, 1789)

July 15: The astronomer and mathematicianJean Sylvain Bailly is named mayor of Paris, andLafayette is appointed Commander of the newly formedNational Guard.
July 16: The King reinstates Necker as finance minister and withdraws royal troops from the center of the city. The new elected Paris assembly votes the destruction of the Bastille fortress. Similar committees and local militias are formed inLyon,Rennes, and in other large French cities.
July 17: The King visits Paris, where he is welcomed at theHôtel de Ville by Bailly and Lafayette, and wears the tricolorcockade. Sensing what is ahead, several prominent members of the nobility, including theCount of Artois, thePrince de Condé, theDuke of Enghien, theBaron de Breteuil, theDuke of Broglie, theDuke of Polignac andhis wife become the first of a wave ofémigrés to leave France.
July 18:Camille Desmoulins begins publication of 'La France libre', demanding a much more radical revolution and calling for a republic arguing that revolutionary violence is justified.
July 22: An armed mob on thePlace de Grève massacresBerthier de Sauvigny, Intendant of Paris, and his father-in-law, accused of speculating in grain.
July 21 – August 14: theGreat Fear: Riots and peasant revolts inStrasbourg (July 21),Le Mans (July 23),Colmar,Alsace, andHainaut (July 25).
July 28:Jacques Pierre Brissot begins publication ofLe Patriote français, an influential newspaper of the revolutionary movement known as theGirondins.

August 1789

August 4:
- The King appoints a government of reformist ministers around Necker.
- August Decrees: The Assembly votes to abolish the privileges and feudal rights of the nobility.
August 7: Publication of "A plot uncovered to lull the people to sleep" byJean-Paul Marat, denouncing the reforms of August 4 as insufficient and demanding a much more radical revolution. Marat quickly becomes the voice of the most turbulentsans-culottes faction of the Revolution.
August 23: The Assembly proclaims freedom of religious opinions.
August 24: The Assembly proclaims freedom of speech.

August 27, 1789 – Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

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August 27: The Assembly adopts theDeclaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, drafted largely by Lafayette.
August 28: The Assembly debates giving the King the power to veto legislation.
August 30: Camille Desmoulins organizes an uprising at thePalais-Royal to block the proposed veto for the King and to force the King to return to Paris. The uprising fails.
August 31: The Constitution Committee of the Assembly proposes a two-house parliament and a royal right of veto.
September 9: The Mayor ofTroyes is assassinated by a mob.
September 11: The National Assembly gives the King the power to temporarily veto laws for two legislative sessions.
September 15: Desmoulins publishesDiscours de la lanterne aux Parisiens, a radical pamphlet justifying political violence and exalting the Parisian mob.
September 16: First issue ofJean Paul Marat's newspaper,L'Ami du peuple, proposing a radical social and political revolution.
September 19: Election of a new municipal assembly in Paris, with three hundred members elected by districts.
October 1: At thebanquet des Gardes du Corps du Roi in Versailles, which Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and the Dauphin attended at dessert time, the King's guards put on the white royalcocarde. The false news quickly reaches Paris that the guards had trampled on the tricolor and caused outrage.

October 4, 1789 – Women's March on Versailles

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TheWomen's March on Versailles (October 5–6, 1789)

October 5: Marat's newspaper demands a march on Versailles to protest the insult to thecocarde tricolor. Thousands of women take part in the march, joined in the evening by the Paris national guard led by Lafayette.
October 6: After an orderly march, a crowd of women invade the Palace. The women demand that the King and his family accompany them back to Paris, and the King agrees. The National Assembly also decides to relocate to Paris.
October 10: The Assembly names Lafayette commander of the regular army in and around Paris. The Assembly also modifies the royal title from "King of France and Navarre" to "King of the French".Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a doctor, member of the Assembly, proposes a new and more humane form of public execution, which eventually is named after him, theguillotine.^[6]
October 12: Louis XVI secretly writes to kingCharles IV of Spain, complaining of mistreatment. The Count of Artois secretly writes toJoseph II of Austria requesting a military intervention in France.
October 19: The National Assembly holds its first meeting in Paris, in the chapel of the archbishop's residence next toNotre Dame Cathedral.
October 21: The Assembly declares a state of martial law to prevent future uprisings.
November 2: The Assembly votes to place property of the Church at the disposition of the Nation.
November 9: The Assembly moves to theSalle du Manège, the former riding school near the Tuileries Palace.
November 28: First issue of Desmoulins' weeklyHistoire des Révolutions de France et de Brabant, savagely attacking royalists and aristocrats.
November: the Breton Club is reconstituted in Paris at the Saint-Honore monastery of Dominicans, who were more popularly known as Jacobins, under the name Society of Friends of the Constitution
December 1: Revolt by the sailors of theFrench Navy inToulon, who arrestAdmiral d'Albert.
December 9: The Assembly decides to divide France into departments, in place of the formerprovinces of France.
December 19: Introduction of theassignat, a form of currency based not on silver, but on the value of the property of the Church confiscated by the State.
December 24: The Assembly decrees that Protestants are eligible to hold public office; Jews are still excluded.

1790 – the Rise of the Political Clubs

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Jean-Paul Marat
Meeting of the National Assembly (February 4, 1790)
Fête de la Fédération (July 14, 1790)

January 7: Riot in Versailles demanding lower bread prices.
January 18: Marat publishes a fierce attack on finance minister Necker.
January 22: Paris municipal police try to arrest Marat for his violent attacks on the government, but he is defended by a crowd ofsans-culottes and escapes to London.
February 13: The Assembly forbids the taking of religious vows and suppresses the contemplative religious orders.
February 23: The Assembly requirescurés (parish priests) in churches across France to read aloud the decrees of the Assembly.
February 28: The Assembly abolishes the requirement that army officers be members of the nobility.
March 8: The Assembly decides to continue the institution ofslavery in French colonies, but permits the establishment of colonial assemblies.
March 12: The Assembly approves the sale of the property of the church by municipalities
March 29:Pope Pius VI condemns theDeclaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in a secret consistory.
April 5 – June 10: A series of pro-catholic and anti-revolutionary riots in the French provinces; inVannes (April 5),Nîmes (April 6),Toulouse (April 18),Toulon (May 3), andAvignon (June 10) protesting measures taken against the church.
April 17: Foundation of theCordeliers club, which meets in the former convent of that name. It becomes one of the most vocal proponents of radical change.
April 30: Riots inMarseille. Three forts are captured, and the commander ofFort Saint-Jean, the Chevalier de Beausset, is assassinated.
May 12: Lafayette andJean Sylvain Bailly institute theSociety of 1789.
May 15: Law passed that allows for the redemption of manorial dues.
May 18: Marat returns to Paris and resumes publication ofL'Ami du people.
May 22: The Assembly decides that it alone can decide issues of war and peace, but that the war cannot be declared without the proposition and sanction by the King.
May 30:Lyon celebrates the Revolution with aFête de la Fédération.Lille holds a similar event on June 6.Strasbourg on June 13,Rouen on June 19.
June 3: Uprising of biracial residents of the French colony ofMartinique.
June 19: The Assembly abolishes the titles, orders, and other privileges of the hereditary nobility.
June 26: Avignon, then under the rule of thePope, asks to be joined to France. The Assembly, wishing to avoid a confrontation withPope Pius VI, delays a decision.
June 26: Diplomats of England, Austria, Prussia and the United Provinces meet atReichenbach to discuss possible military intervention against the French Revolution.
July 12: The Assembly adopts the final text on the status of the French clergy. Clergymen lose their special status, and are required to take anoath of allegiance to the government.

July 14, 1790 –Fête de la Fédération

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July 14: TheFête de la Fédération is held on theChamp de Mars in Paris to celebrate the first anniversary of the Revolution. The event is attended by the king and queen, the National Assembly, the government, and a huge crowd. Lafayette takes a civic oath vowing to "be ever faithful to the nation, to the law, and to the king; to support with our utmost power the constitution decreed by the National Assembly, and accepted by the king." This oath is taken by his troops, as well as the king. TheFête de la Fédération is the last event to unite all the different factions in Paris during the Revolution.
July 23: The Pope writes a secret letter to Louis XVI, promising to condemn the Assembly's abolition of the special status of the French clergy.
July 26: Marat publishes a demand for the immediate execution of five to six hundred aristocrats to save the Revolution.
July 28: The Assembly refuses to allow Austrian troops to cross French territory to suppress an uprising in Belgium, inspired by the French Revolution.
July 31: The Assembly decides to take legal action against Marat and Camille Desmoulins because of their calls for revolutionary violence.
August 16: The Assembly establishes positions ofjustices of the peace around the country to replace the traditional courts held by the local nobles.
August 16: The Assembly calls for the re-establishment of discipline in the army.
August 31: Battles inNancy between rebellious soldiers of the army and the national guard units of the city, who support Lafayette and the Assembly.
September 4: Necker, the finance minister, is dismissed. The National Assembly takes charge of the public treasury.
September 16: Mutiny of sailors of the French fleet atBrest.
October 6: Louis XVI writes his cousin,Charles IV of Spain, to express his hostility to the new status of the French clergy.
October 12: The Assembly dissolves the local assembly of Saint-Domingue (nowHaiti) and again reaffirms the institution of slavery.
October 21: The Assembly decrees that thetricolor will replace the white flag andfleur-de-lys of the French monarchy as emblem of France.
November 4: Insurrection in the French colony of Isle de France (nowMauritius).
November 25: Uprising of black slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (nowHaiti).
November 27: The Assembly decrees that all members of the clergy must take an oath to the Nation, the Law and the King. A large majority of French clergymen refuse to take the oath.
December 3: Louis XVI writes to KingFrederick William II of Prussia asking for a military intervention by European monarchs to restore his authority.
December 27: Thirty-nine deputies of the Assembly, who are also clergymen, take an oath of allegiance to the government. However, a majority of clergymen serving in the Assembly refuse to take the oath.

1791 – The unsuccessful flight of the Royal Family from Paris

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The comte de Mirabeau (1791)
The King and his family are recognized and arrested at Varennes (June 21, 1791)

January 1:Mirabeau elected President of the Assembly
January 3: Priests are ordered to take an oath to the Nation within twenty-four hours. A majority of clerical members of the Assembly refuse to take the oath.
February 19:Mesdames, the daughters of Louis XV and aunts of Louis XVI, depart France for exile.
February 24: Constitutional bishops, who have taken an oath to the State, replace the former Church hierarchy.
February 28:Day of Daggers.Lafayette orders the arrest of 400 armed aristocrats who have gathered at theTuileries Palace to protect the royal family. They are freed on March 13.
March 2: Abolition of the traditionaltrade guilds.
March 3: The Assembly orders that the silver objects owned by the Church be melted down and sold to fund the government.
March 10: Pope Pius VI condemns theCivil Constitution of the Clergy
March 25: Diplomatic relations broken between France and the Vatican.
April 2: Death ofMirabeau.
April 3: The Assembly proposes transforming the new church of Sainte Geneviève, not yet consecrated, into thePanthéon, a mausoleum for illustrious citizens of France.
April 13: Encyclical of Pope Pius VI condemns the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
April 18: The National Guard, despite orders from Lafayette, blocks the royal family from going to theChâteau de Saint-Cloud to celebrate Easter.
May 4: The remains of Mirabeau are the first to be placed in the newPanthéon.
May 16: On a proposal ofRobespierre, the Assembly votes to forbid members of the current Assembly to become candidates for the next Assembly.
May 30: The Assembly orders the transfers of the ashes ofVoltaire to the Panthéon.
May 30:Robespierre gives a passionate speech in the Assembly in favour of abolishing thedeath penalty in its entirety.
June 14:The Chapelier Law is passed by the Assembly, abolishing corporations and forbidding labor unions and strikes.
June 15: The Assembly forbids priests to wear ecclesiastical robes outside churches.

June 20–21, 1791 – The Royal Family flees Paris

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King Louis XVI returns to Paris after his attempted flight (June 25, 1791)

The National Guard fires on demonstrators in the Champ de Mars (July 17, 1791)

June 20–21: TheFlight to Varennes. In the night of 20–21 June, the King, the Queen and their children slip out of the Tuileries Palace and flee by carriage in the direction ofMontmédy.
June 21–22: The King is recognized at Varennes. The Assembly announces that he was taken against his will, and sends three commissioners to bring him back to Paris.
June 25: Louis XVI returns to Paris. The Assembly suspends his functions until further notice.
July 5:Emperor Leopold II issues thePadua Circular calling on the royal houses of Europe to come to the aid of Louis XVI, his brother-in-law.
July 9: The Assembly decrees thatémigrés must return to France within two months, or forfeit their property.
July 11: The ashes ofVoltaire are transferred to thePanthéon.
July 15: National Assembly declares the king inviolable, and cannot be put on trial. Louis XVI suspended from his duties until the ratification of a new Constitution.
July 16: The more moderate members of theJacobins club break away to form a new club, theFeuillants.
July 17: A demonstration sponsored by the Jacobins, Cordeliers and their allies carries a petition demanding the removal of the King to theChamp de Mars. The city government raises the red flag, the sign of martial law, and forbids the demonstration. The National Guard fires on the crowd, and some fifty persons are killed.^[7]
July 18: Following the events in theChamp de Mars, the Assembly forbids incitement to riot, urging citizens to disobey the law, and seditious publications, aimed at the Jacobins and Cordeliers. Marat goes into hiding and Danton flees to England.
August 14: Slave uprising begins in Saint Domingue (Haiti)
August 27:Declaration of Pillnitz - A proclamation byFrederick William II of Prussia and HabsburgHoly Roman Emperor Leopold II, affirms their wish to "put the King of France in a state to strengthen the bases of monarchic government." This vague statement is taken in France as a direct threat by the other European powers to intervene in the Revolution.
September 13–14: Louis XVI formally accepts the newConstitution.
September 27: The Assembly declares that all men living in France, regardless of color, are free, but preserves slavery in French colonies. French Jews are granted citizenship.
September 29: The Assembly limits membership in the National Guard to citizens who pay a certain level of taxes, thus excluding the working class.
September 30: Last day of theNational Constituent Assembly. Assembly grants amnesty to all those punished for illegal political activity since 1788.
October 1: First session of the new nationalLegislative Assembly.Claude Pastoret, a monarchist, is elected President of the assembly.
October 6: The first modernFrench Penal Code passes its vote in the Convention.
October 16: Riots against the revolutionary commune, or city government, inAvignon. After an official of the commune is killed, anti-government prisoners kept in the basements of thePapal Palace are massacred.
November 9:Émigrés are again ordered to return to France before January 1, 1792, under penalty of losing their property and a sentence of death. King Louis XVI vetoes the declaration on November 11, but asks his brothers to return to France.
November 14:Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve is elected mayor of Paris, with 6,728 votes against 3,126 for Lafayette. Out of 80,000 eligible voters, 70,000 abstain.
November 25: The Legislative Assembly creates a Committee of Surveillance to oversee the government.
November 29: Priests are again ordered to take an oath to the government, or to be considered suspects.
December 3: The King writes a secret letter toFrederick William II of Prussia, urging him to intervene militarily in France "to prevent the evil which is happening here before it overtakes the other states of Europe.^[8]
December 3: Louis XVI's brothers, (the counts of Provence and Artois) refuse to return to France, citing "the moral and physical captivity in which the King is being held."^[8]
December 14: Lafayette receives command of one of the three new armies established to defend the French borders, theArmy of the Centre, based atMetz. The other two armies are commanded byRochambeau (Army of the North) andNicolas Luckner (Army of the Rhine).
December 28: The Assembly votes to summon a mass army of volunteers to defend the borders of France.

1792 – War and the overthrow of the monarchy

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The king is forced to wear aPhrygian cap and drink a toast to the Nation (June 20, 1792)
Sans-Culottes take possession of the Tuileries Palace and massacre the Swiss Guards (August 10, 1792)
Massacre of prisoners in Paris prisons (September 2–7, 1792)
French victory over the Prussians at theBattle of Valmy (September 29, 1792)

23 January: Theslave uprising in Haiti causes severe shortages of sugar and coffee in Paris. Riots against food shortages; many food shops are looted inParis.
February 1: French citizens are required to have a passport to travel in the interior of the country.
February 7:Austria andPrussia sign inBerlin a military convention to invade France and defend the monarchy.
February 9: The Assembly decrees theconfiscation of the property ofémigrés, for the benefit of the Nation.
February 23: Confrontation between the army and crowds inBéthune over the allocation of grain.
March 7: TheDuke of Brunswick is named to command a joint Austrian-Prussian invasion of France.
April 4: The Assembly grants equal rights to free people of color in Haiti.^[9]
April 5: The Assembly closes theSorbonne, a center of conservative theology.
April 20: The Assembly declares war on theKing of Bohemia and Hungary, i.e. to theHoly Roman Empire.
April 25:La Marseillaise composed byClaude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, is sung for the first time inStrasbourg.
April 28: The war begins. The army ofRochambeau invades theAustrian Netherlands.
April 30: The government issues three hundred millionassignats to finance the war.
May 5: The Assembly orders the raising of thirty-one new battalions for the army.
May 6: The Royal-Allemand regiment (Régiment de Royal-Allemand cavalerie), composed of German mercenaries, deserts the French army and joins the Austrian-Prussian coalition.
May 12: TheHussar regiments of Saxe and Bercheny desert the French Army and join the coalition.
May 27: The Assembly orders the deportation of priests who have not signed the oath to the government, known as theCivil Constitution of the Clergy.
June 8: The Assembly orders the raising of an army of twenty thousand volunteers to be camped outside Paris.
June 11: Louis XVI vetoes the laws on the deportation of priests and the formation of a new army outside Paris.
June 13 Louis XVI dismisses hisGirondin ministers^[10] following a letter penned byJean Marie de Roland, Minister of the Interior criticising the King's veto of Girondin legislation on June 11.
June 20: A secret insurrectionary committee, supported by theParis Commune and led by the prosecutorsLouis Pierre Manuel andGeorges Danton, is formed.
June 20:Demonstrators invade theTuileries Palace and King Louis XVI condescends to wear a redliberty cap and drink to the health of the Nation.^[11]
June 21: The Assembly bans gatherings of armed citizens within the city limits.
June 28: Lafayette speaks to the Assembly, denouncing the actions of the Jacobins and other radical groups in the Assembly. His proposal to organize a review of the National guard in Paris is annulled byPétion, mayor of Paris.
June 30: Lafayette leaves Paris and returns to his army. He is denounced byRobespierre and his effigy is burned by a mob at thePalais-Royal.
July 11: As the Austrian army advances slowly toward Paris, the Assembly declares that the Nation is in danger (La patrie en danger).
July 15: The Assembly votes to send regular army units, whose officers largely support Lafayette, far outside the city.
July 15: Members of theCordeliers club, led by Danton, demand the convocation of a Convention to replace the Legislative Assembly.
July 25: The Assembly authorizes the Paris sections, local assemblies in each neighborhood, many controlled by the Jacobins and Cordeliers, to meet in permanent sessions.
July 25:Brunswick Manifesto - The Austrian commander warns that should the royal family be harmed, an "exemplary and eternally memorable revenge" will follow.
July 28: The Brunswick Manifesto is widely circulated in Paris, causing fury against the King.
July 30: Decree by the Assembly allows working-class citizens (those who pay no taxes) to join the National Guard.
July 30: Arrival in Paris of volunteerfédérés fromMarseille. They sing the new war hymn, of the Army of the Rhine, which gradually takes their name,La Marseillaise. Fights break out between the new volunteers and soldiers of the National Guard loyal to Lafayette.
August 3: 47 of the 48 sections of Paris, mostly controlled by the Cordeliers and the Jacobins, send petitions to the Assembly, demanding the removal of the King. They are presented by Pétion, the mayor of Paris.
August 4: The Paris section Number Eighty proclaims an insurrection on August 10 if the Assembly does not remove the King. At the request of the royal household, the Swiss guards at the Tuileries are reinforced, and joined by many armed nobles.
August 9:Georges Danton, a deputy city prosecutor, and his Cordeliers allies take over the Paris city government and establish theRevolutionary Paris commune. They take possession of theHôtel de Ville. They increase the number of Commune deputies to 288. The Assembly recognizes them as the legal government of Paris on August 10.

August 10, 1792 – Storming of the Tuileries; Downfall of the King

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August 10:Storming of the Tuileries Palace. TheNational Guard of the insurrectionalParis Commune and revolutionaryfédérés fromMarseille andBrittany attack the Tuileries Palace. The King and his family take refuge in the Legislative Assembly. TheSwiss Guards defending the Palace are massacred. The Legislative Assembly provisionally suspends the authority of the King, and orders the election of a new government, theConvention.
August 11: The Assembly elects a new Executive Committee to replace the government.Danton is named Minister of Justice. The municipalities are authorized to arrest suspected enemies of the Revolution, and royalist newspapers and publications are banned.
August 13: Royal family imprisoned in theTemple.
August 14: Lafayette tries unsuccessfully to persuade his army to march on Paris to rescue the royal family.
August 17: At the demand of Robespierre and the Commune of Paris, who threatens an armed uprising if the Assembly does not comply, the Assembly votes the creation of a new Criminal Tribunal (not to be confused with the laterRevolutionary Tribunal) to deal with the crimes committed on the10th of August, the members of which are selected by the Commune.
August 18: The Assembly abolishes the religious teaching orders and those running hospitals, the last remaining religious orders in France.
August 19: Lafayette leaves his army and goes into exile. The Coalition army of Austrian and Prussian soldiers, and of Frenchémigrés, led by theDuke of Brunswick crosses the northern and eastern borders into France.
August 21: First summary judgement by the Revolutionary Tribunal and execution by the guillotine of a royalist, Louis Collenot d'Angremont (fr).
August 22: The Paris Commune orders that persons henceforth be addressed asCitoyen andCitoyenne ("Citizen") rather thanMonsieur orMadame.
August 22: Royalist riots inBrittany,Vendée andDauphiné.
September 2:Capitulation without a fight ofVerdun to Brunswick's troops.

September 2–7, 1792 – Massacres in Paris prisons

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September 2–7: Following the news of surrender of Verdun, the Commune ordersmassacres of prisoners in Paris prisons. Between 1400 and 2000 prisoners are massacred, the great majority were common criminals, 17 percent were priests, 6 percent Swiss guards, and 5 percent political prisoners.^[12]
September 10: The government requisitions all church objects made of gold or silver.
September 19: Creation of theLouvre Museum displaying art taken from royal collections.
September 20: Last session of Assembly votes a new law permitting civil marriage and divorce.

September 20, 1792 – French victory at Valmy; Debut of the Convention

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September 20: The French army under GeneralsDumouriez andKellermann defeat the Prussians at theBattle of Valmy. The Prussians retreat.
September 20: The newly electedNational Convention holds its first session behind closed doors, in theSalle du Manège, the former riding school of the Tuileries Palace, and elects its Bureau. Of the 749 deputies, 113 areJacobins, who take their seats in the highest benches in the hall, theMontagne (Mountain), thus their nickname ofMontagnards, the "Mountaineers".
September 22: The Convention proclaims the abolition of royalty and theFirst French Republic.
September 29: French troops occupyNice, then part ofSavoy.
October 3: French troops occupyBasel inSwitzerland, then ruled by Archbishop of Basel, and proclaim it an independent Republic.
October 23: French troops occupyFrankfurt am Main.
October 27: The French army under Dumouriez invades the Austrian Netherlands (Belgium). They occupyBrussels on November 14.
November 19: The Convention claims the right to intervene in any country "where people desire to recover their freedom".
November 20: Discovery in the king's apartment in the Tuileries Palace of thearmoire de fer, an iron strongbox containing Louis XVI's secret correspondence with Mirabeau and with foreign monarchs.
November 27: The Convention decrees the attachment ofNice and theSavoy to France.
November 28: The French army occupiesLiège.
December 3:Robespierre, leader of the Jacobins and First Deputy for Paris in the convention, demands that the King be put to death.
December 4: Deputies sent by Brussels assembly to the National Convention express gratitude of the Belgian people and request that France officially recognise the independence of Belgium. The Convention adopts immediately the proposed decree.^[13]
December 6: At the proposal ofJean-Paul Marat, the Convention rules that each deputy must individually and publicly declare his vote on the death penalty for the King.

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December 10, 1792 – January 21, 1793 – Trial and Execution of Louis XVI

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December 10: Opening of thetrial of Louis XVI before the convention.
December 11: Louis XVI is brought before the convention. He appears in person twice, December 11 and 26.
December 26: Defense of the King presented by his lawyer,Raymond Desèze (Raymondcomte de Sèze).
December 27–28: Motions in the Convention asking that people vote on judgement of the King. The motion is opposed by Robespierre, who declares "Louis must die so that the nation may live." The Convention rejects the motion for French voters to decide the King's fate.
January 15: The Convention declares Louis XVI guilty of conspiracy against public liberty by a vote of 707 to zero.
January 17: In a vote lasting twenty-one hours, 361 deputies vote for the death penalty, and 360 against (including 26 for a death penalty followed by a pardon). The Convention rejects a final appeal to the people.
January 21: Louis XVI is beheaded at 10:22 onPlace de la Révolution. The commander of the execution,Antoine Joseph Santerre, orders a drum roll to drown out his final words to the crowd.

Theexecution of Louis XVI (January 21, 1793)
The Revolutionary Tribunal at work in 1793

1793 – France at war against Europe; The Jacobins seize power; The Terror begins

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January 24: Breaking of diplomatic relations between England and France.
February 1: The Convention declares war against England and theDutch Republic.
February 14: The Convention annexes thePrincipality of Monaco.
February 14:Jean Nicolas Pache is elected the new mayor of Paris.
March 1: Decree of the Convention annexes Belgium to France.
March 3: Armed royalist uprising against the Convention begins inBrittany.
March 7: The Convention declares war against Spain.

Uprising in the Vendée

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March 7:War in the Vendée. Armed uprising against the rule of the convention, particularly against conscription into the army, begins in theVendée region of west-central France.
March 10:Revolutionary Tribunal established in Paris, withFouquier-Tinville as the public prosecutor.
March 10: Failed uprising in Paris by the ultra-revolutionary faction known as theenragés, led by the former priestJacques Roux.
March 18: The Convention decrees the death penalty for those advocating radical economic programs, a decree aimed at theenragés.
March 19: The Convention decrees the death penalty for any participant in the uprising in the Vendée.
March 21: Establishment of Revolutionary Surveillance Committees (Comités de surveillance révolutionnaire) in all communes and their sections.
March 27: GeneralDumouriez denounces revolutionary anarchy.
March 30: The Convention orders Dumouriez to return to Paris, and sends four commissaires andPierre de Ruel, the Minister of War, to arrest him.
April 1: Dumouriez arrests the commissaires of the Convention and Minister of War and hands them over to the Austrians,
April 3: Convention declares Dumouriez outside the law.
April 3: Arrest ofPhilippe Égalité, a deputy and head of the Orléans branch of the royal family, who had voted for the execution of Louis XVI, his cousin.
April 4: Dumouriez fails to persuade his army to march on Paris, and goes over to the Austrians on April 5.
April 5:Jean Paul Marat is elected head of theJacobin Club.

April 6 – May 30, 1793 - Committee on Public Safety takes control of government

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The triumph of Marat after his release from arrest

April 6:Committee of Public Safety established by the convention to oversee the ministries and to be chief executive body of the government. Its first nine members includedBertrand Barère,Pierre Joseph Cambon andGeorges Danton.
April 6: First session of theRevolutionary Tribunal.
April 12: The Convention votes to arrest Marat for using his newspaperL'Ami du peuple to incite violence and murder, and demand to suspend the convention. Marat goes into hiding.
April 15: The mayor of Paris, Jean Nicolas Pache, demands that the Convention expel 23 deputies belonging to the moderateGirondin faction.
April 24: Marat is brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal, and is acquitted of all charges. His release causes riotous celebrations by his supporters.
May 3: The rebels of the Vendée, led by the aristocratsCharles de Bonchamps andHenri de La Rochejaquelein, captureBressuire.
May 4: At the demand of the Paris section of Saint-Antoine, the Convention fixes a maximum price for grain.
May 24: At the demand of the Girondins, the Convention orders the arrest of the ultra-revolutionaryenragés leadersJacques René Hébert andJean Varlet.
May 25: The Paris Commune demands the release of Hébert and Varlet.
May 26: At the Jacobin Club, Robespierre and Marat call for an insurrection against the convention. The Paris Commune begins preparing a seizure of power.
May 27: Release of Hébert and Varlet.
May 30: The leaders ofLyon rebel against the convention, arresting the localMontagnard andenragés leaders.

May 31 – June 2, 1793 – The Montagnard Coup d'État

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Sans-culottes threaten deputyLanjuinais, on the podium during the takeover of the convention (June 2, 1793)

May 31:Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793. An armed crowd of sans-culottes organized by the Commune storms the hall of the convention and demands that it disband. The deputies resist.
June 2: The sans-culottes and soldiers of the Paris Commune, led byFrançois Hanriot, occupy the hall of the convention and force it to vote for the arrest of 29Girondins deputies, and two ministers,Claviére andLebrun.
June 6: Revolts against the Montagnard coup d'état in Marseille, Nîmes, and Toulouse.
June 7: Bordeaux rejects the new government.
June 10: Montagnards gain control of the Committee of Public Safety.
June 10: Despite the Revolution, scientific research continues. Opening of theNational Museum of Natural History.
June 13: Leaders of departments opposing the new government meet inCaen. About sixty departments are in revolt against Montagnard government in Paris.
June 24: Ratification of newConstitution by the National Convention.
June 25:Jacques Roux, leader of the ultra-revolutionaryenragés, presents his program to the convention.
June 26; Robespierre denounces theenragés before the convention.
June 30: Robespierre and Hébert lead a delegation of Jacobins to the Cordeliers Club to demand the exclusion from the club of Roux and the other ultra-revolutionary leaders.
July 3: The eight-year-oldLouis XVII, king of France in the eyes of the royalists, is taken fromMarie Antoinette and given to a cobbler namedAntoine Simon on orders from theNational Convention.
July 4: Marat violently denounces theenragés.

July 13, 1793 – Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat by Charlotte Corday

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July 13:Charlotte Corday assassinatesJean-Paul Marat in his bath. At her trial, she declares, "I killed one man to save a hundred thousand."
July 17: Charlotte Corday is tried and sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal for murdering Marat. She is guillotined after her trial.
July 27: Robespierre elected to the Committee of Public Safety.
July 27: The Convention institutes death penalty for those who hoard scarce goods.
August 1: The Convention declares a scorched earth policy against all departments rebelling against its authority.
August 1: The Convention adopts the principles of themetric system.
August 1: On order by decree of the convention, a mob profanes the tombs of the Kings of France at theBasilica of Saint-Denis.
August 2: Marie-Antoinette is transferred from the Temple to theConciergerie.
August 8: The Convention sends an army led byGeneral Kellermann to lay siege to the rebellious city of Lyon.
August 22: Robespierre is elected the president of the convention.
August 23:Levée en masse voted by the convention. All able-bodied non-married men between ages 18 and 25 are required to serve in the army.
August 25: Soldiers of the Convention capture Marseille.
August 27: Anti-Convention leaders in Toulon invite the British fleet and army to occupy the city.
September 4:Sans-culottes occupy the convention and demand the arrest of suspected opponents of the Revolution, and the creation of a new revolutionary army of 60,000 men.

September 17, 1793 – The Reign of Terror begins

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September 17: Convention adopts a newLaw of Suspects, permitting the arrest and rapid trial of anyone suspected of opposing the Revolution. Start ofReign of Terror.
September 18: Convention re-establishes revolutionary government in Bordeaux. Opponents are arrested and imprisoned.
September 21: All women are required to wear acocarde tricolor.
September 29: The Convention passes theGeneral Maximum, fixing the prices of many goods and services, as well as maximum salaries.
October 3: The Convention orders that Marie-Antoinette be tried by the Revolutionary Tribunal.
October 3: Additional moderate deputies are accused and excluded from the Assembly; a total of 136 deputies are excluded.
October 5: To break with the past and replace traditional religious holidays, the Convention adopts the newly createdRepublican Calendar: Year I is declared to have begun on September 22, 1792.
October 9: Lyon is recaptured by the army of the convention.
October 10: A decree by the Convention puts the new Constitution on hold. On a proposal fromSaint-Just, the Convention declares that "The government of France is revolutionary until the peace."
October 12: The Convention decrees that the city of Lyon will be destroyed in punishment for itsrebellion, and renamedVille-Affranchie.
October 12: Marie-Antoinette is summoned before the Revolutionary Tribunal and charged with treason.
October 16: The Army of the Convention defeats the Austrian Army at theBattle of Wattignies.

October 16, 1793 – The execution of Marie-Antoinette

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Marie-Antoinette in the Temple Prison (1793)

October 16: Marie-Antoinette is convicted and guillotined on thePlace de la Revolution.
October 17: The Army of the Convention under GeneralsJean-Baptiste Kléber andFrançois Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers defeats the Vendéen rebels atCholet.
October 20: The Convention orders the repression of the ultra-revolutionaryenragés.
October 28: The Convention forbids religious instruction by clerics.
October 30: The Revolutionary Tribunal sentences the 21Girondins deputies to death.
October 31: The 21 Girondins deputies are guillotined.
November 3:Olympe de Gouges, champion of rights for women, accused of Girondin sympathies, is guillotined.
November 7:Philippe Égalité is guillotined.
November 8:Madame Roland is guillotined in the purge of Girondins. Before her execution, she cries: "Liberty, what crimes are committed in your name!"
November 9: Former finance minister Brienne is arrested at Sens.
November 10: TheCathedral of Notre Dame is re-dedicated as aTemple of Reason in to the civic religion of theCult of Reason.
November 12: The astronomer and former mayor of Paris,Jean Sylvain Bailly, is executed on the Champ de Mars for his role in suppressing a demonstration there on July 17, 1791.
November 17: On Robespierre's orders, supporters of Danton are arrested.
November 20: Danton returns to Paris, after being absent since October 11. He urges "indulgence" toward opponents and "national reconciliation".
November 23: The Paris Commune orders the closing of all churches and places of worship in Paris.
November 25: Convention votes to remove Mirabeau's remains from thePanthéon and replace them with those of Marat.
December 5: The Cordelier deputyCamille Desmoulins, supporting Danton, publishes an appeal for national reconciliation.
December 12: Defeat of the rebel Vendéen army atLe Mans.
December 19: Withdrawal of the British from Toulon, following a successful military operation conceived and led by a young artillery officer,Napoléon Bonaparte.
December 23: The Army of GeneralFrançois Joseph Westermann destroys the last the Vendéen army atSavenay. Six thousand prisoners are executed.
December 24: To punish the rebellious city of Toulon, the Convention renames itPort-la-Montagne.

1794 – The fury of the Terror, the Cult of the Supreme Being, and the Downfall of Robespierre

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January 8: At the Jacobins, Robespierre denouncesFabre d'Églantine, one of the instigators of the September massacres, father of the Republican calendar, and ally of Danton.
January 13: Arrest of Fabre d'Églantine for alleged diversion of state funds.
January 29: Death ofHenri de la Rochejaquelein, royalist and military leader of the Vendéens, fighting atNuaillé.
February 4: The Convention votes to abolish slavery in French colonies.
February 5: Robespierre lectures the convention on the necessity for the Terror: "The foundations of a popular government in a revolution are virtue and terror; terror without virtue is disastrous; and virtue without terror is powerless. The Government of the Revolution is the despotism of liberty over tyranny."^[14]
February 6: Napoleon Bonaparte is promoted to general for his role in driving the British from Toulon.
February 6: Recall ofJean-Baptiste Carrier fromNantes. As official delegate of the convention, he was responsible for thedrownings at Nantes of as many as ten thousand Vendéen prisoners, in barges deliberately sunk in the Loire River.
February 10:Jacques Roux commits suicide in prison.
February 22: In a speech at the Cordeliers Club,Hébert attacks both the factions of Danton and Robespierre.
March 4: At the Cordeliers Club,Jean-Baptiste Carrier calls for an insurrection against the convention.
March 11: The Committees of Public Safety and General Security denounce a planned uprising by the Cordeliers.
March 13:Saint-Just, President of the convention, denounces a plot against liberty and the French people. Hébert and many other Cordeliers are arrested.
March 15: Robespierre tells the Convention that "All the factions must perish from the same blow."
March 20: Arrest ofGeneral Hoche, a member of the Cordeliers. He is freed in August after the fall of Robespierre.
March 21: Trial of theHébertists begins. To compromise them, they are tried together with foreign bankers, aristocrats and counter-revolutionaries.
March 24: Hébert and leaders of the Cordeliers are condemned to death and guillotined.
March 27: The philosopher and mathematicianCondorcet is arrested. He is found dead in his cell two days later.

March 30, 1794 – The arrest and trial of Danton and Desmoulins

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March 30:Danton,Camille Desmoulins and their supporters arrested.
April 2: Trial of Danton before the Revolutionary Tribunal. He uses the occasion to ridicule and insult his opponents.
April 4: The Convention decrees that anyone who insults the justice system is excluded from speaking, barring Danton from defending himself.
April 5: Danton and Desmoulins are convicted and guillotined the same day.
April 8: Robespierre makes accusations against the Convention delegateJoseph Fouché at a meeting of the Jacobins.
April 10: The members of the alleged Conspiracy of Luxembourg, a diverse collection of followers of Danton and Hébert and other individuals, are put on trial. Seven are acquitted and nineteen are condemned and executed, includingLucile Desmoulins, the widow of Camille Desmoulins,General Arthur Dillon, who had fought in theAmerican Revolutionary War,Pierre Gaspard Chaumette,Françoise Hébert, the widow of Jacques Hébert, and the defrockedBishop Gobel.
April 14: At the request of Robespierre, the Convention orders the transfer of the ashes ofJean-Jacques Rousseau to the Panthéon.
April 15: A report to the convention by Saint-Just calls from greater centralization of the police under the control of the Committee for Public Safety.
April 19: By the Treaty of the Hague, between Britain and Prussia, Britain agrees to fund an army of 62,000 Prussian soldiers to continue the war against France.^[15]
April 20: In a report to the convention, the deputyBillaud-Varenne delivers a veiled attack against Robespierre: "All people jealous of their liberty should be on guard even against the virtues of those who occupy eminent positions."
On 22 April:Malesherbes and the deputésIsaac René Guy le Chapelier andJacques Guillaume Thouret, four times elected president of theConstituent Assembly, were taken to the scaffold.
April 23: Robespierre creates a new Bureau of Police attached to the Committee of Public Safety, in opposition to the existing police under the Committee of General Safety.^[16]^[17]
May 7: Robespierre asks the convention to decree "that the French people recognize the existence of a Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul", and to organize celebrations of the new cult.
May 8: The chemistAntoine Lavoisier, along with twenty-six other former members of theFerme générale, is tried and guillotined.
May 8: Dramatic increase in competences for the revolutionary tribunal of Paris, making many of the tribunals outside of the capital city obsolete.^[18]
May 10: Arrest of Jean Nicolas Pache, the former mayor of Paris, followed by his replacement byJean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot, a close ally of Robespierre.
May 10: Execution ofMadame Élisabeth, the sister of Louis XVI.
June 2: Naval battle between British and French fleets offOuessant. The French lose seven warships, but a convoy carrying grain from the United States is able to dock inBrest.
June 4: Robespierre is unanimously elected president of the convention.

June 8, 1794 – Festival of the Supreme Being; Acceleration of the Terror

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Stage of theFestival of the Supreme Being (June 8, 1794)
The poetAndré Chenier and other victims of the Terror await judgement at theConciergerie (July 25, 1794)
French victory at theBattle of Fleurus (June 26, 1794)

June 8:Festival of the Supreme Being, conducted by Robespierre. Some deputies visibly show annoyance with his behavior at the Festival.
June 10:Law of 22 Prairial - As the prisons are full, the Convention speeds up the trials of those accused. Witnesses are no longer required to testify. From June 11 to July 27, 1,376 prisoners are sentenced to death, with no acquittals, compared with 1251 death sentences in the previous fourteen months. The convention also gives itself the exclusive right to arrest its own members.^[19]
June 12: Without naming names, Robespierre announces to the Convention that he will demand the heads of "intriguers" who are plotting against the convention.
June 24: Carnot foresightedly despatched a large part of the Parisian artillery to the front.^[20]
June 26: French forces underJourdan defeat the Austrians at theBattle of Fleurus.
June 29: Dispute within the Committee of Public Safety.Billaud-Varenne,Carnot andCollot d'Herbois accuse Robespierre of behaving like a dictator. He leaves the committee and does not return before July 23.
July 1: Robespierre speaks at the Jacobin Club, denouncing a conspiracy against him within the convention, the Committee of Public Safety, and the Committee of General Security.
July 8: French forces under Generals Jourdan andPichegru capture Brussels from Austrians.
July 9: Robespierre speaks again at the Jacobin Club, denying he has already made lists, and refusing to name those he plans to arrest.
July 14: At the request of Robespierre,Joseph Fouché is expelled from the Jacobin Club.
July 23:Alexandre de Beauharnais is tried and executed; his widowJoséphine de Beauharnais became Napoleon's mistress, and his wife in 1796.
July 23: Robespierre attends a meeting of reconciliation with the members of the Committees of Public Safety and General Security, and the dispute seems settled.
July 25: The poetAndré Chénier is among those guillotined.
July 27:Marie Thérèse de Choiseul, the princess of Monaco is executed. Her execution would be one of the last during the Reign of Terror.

July 26–28, 1794 – Arrest and execution of Robespierre; End of the Terror

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Main articles:Thermidorian Reaction andFall of Maximilien Robespierre

The Convention rises against Robespierre (July 27, 1794)
The execution of Robespierre (July 28, 1794)

July 26: Robespierre gives a violent speech at the convention, demanding, without naming them, the arrest and punishment of "traitors" in the Committees of Public Safety and General Security. The Convention first votes to publish the speech, but Billaud-Varenne and Cambon demand names and attack Robespierre. The Convention sends Robespierre's speech to the Committees for further study, without action.
July 27: At noon, Saint-Just began his speech in the convention, prepared to blame everything on Billaud, Collot d'Herbois and Carnot. After a few minutes, Tallien interrupted him and began the attack. When the accusations began to pile up the Convention voted the arrest of Robespierre, and of his younger brotherAugustin Robespierre, Saint-Just, Couthon and Lebas.François Hanriot warned the sections that there would be an attempt to murder Robespierre and mobilized 2,400 National Guards in front of the town hall. In the meantime the five were taken to a prison, but refused by the jailors. An administrator of the police took Robespierre the older around 8 p.m. to thepolice administration onÎle de la Cité; Robespierre insisted being received in a prison.^[21] He hesitated for legal reasons for possibly two hours. At around 10 p.m. the mayor appointed a delegation to go and convince Robespierre to join the Commune movement. Then the Convention declared the five deputies (plus the supporting members) to be outlaws. They expected crowds of supporters to join them during the night, but most left losing time in fruitless deliberation, without supplies or instructions.
July 28: At two in the morning, soldiers loyal to the Convention take theHôtel de Ville without a fight. Robespierre is wounded in the jaw by a gunshot, either from a gendarme or self-inflicted. His brother is badly injured jumping from the window. In the morning, Robespierre and his supporters are taken to the Revolutionary Tribunal for formal identification. Since they have been declared outside the law, no trial is considered necessary. In the evening of July 28, Robespierre and his supporters, including his brother, Saint-Just, Couthon and Hanriot, 22 in all, are guillotined.
July 29: Arrest and execution of seventy allies of Robespierre within the Paris Commune. In all, 106 Robespierrists are guillotined.
August 5: Inmates of Paris prisons arrested under the Law of Suspects are released.
August 9: Napoléon Bonaparte is arrested in Nice, but released on August 20.
August 24: The Convention reorganizes the government, distributing power among sixteen different committees.
August 29: First anti-Jacobin demonstration in Paris by disaffected young middle-class Parisians calledMuscadins.
August 30: French army retakesCondé-sur-l'Escaut. All French territory is now freed of foreign occupation.
August 31: The Convention puts Paris under the direct control of the national government.
September 1: TheMusée des Monuments français is founded to protect religious architecture and art threatened with destruction.
September 13: TheAbbé Grégoire, a member of the convention, coins the term "vandalism" to describe destruction of religious monuments across France
September 18: The Convention stops paying officially sanctioned priests and stops maintaining church properties.
September 21: The remains of Marat are placed in the Panthéon.
October 1: Confrontations in the meetings of the Paris sections between supporters and opponents of the Terror.
October 3: Arrest of the leaders of the bands of armedsans-culottes in Paris.
October 6: A French army capturesCologne.
October 22: Foundation of the Central School of Public Works, the futureÉcole Polytechnique
November 9:Muscadins attack the Jacobin Club. The attack is repeated on November 11.
November 12: The Convention orders the suspension of meetings of the Jacobin Club.
November 19: Treaty of London between the United States and England calls for joint suppression of Frenchcorsairs and a blockade of French ports.
December 3: The Convention forms a committee of sixteen members to complete work on the Constitution of 1793.
December 8: Seventy-three surviving Girondin deputies are given seats again in the convention.
December 16: Conviction and execution of the JacobinCarrier for ordering the mass execution of as many as 10.000 prisoners in the Vendée
December 24: The Convention repeals the law setting maximum prices for grain and other food products.

1795 – The Directory Replaces the Convention

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TwoMuscadins in Paris (1795)
Paul Barras in the ceremonial dress of a French Director

January 19: French army of Pichegru capturesAmsterdam.
January 21: French cavalrycapture the Dutch fleet, trapped in the ice at Den Helder.
February 2: Confrontations betweenMuscadins andsans-culottes in Paris streets.
February 5: The semi-official government newspaperLe Moniteur Universel condemns the past incitement to violence and terror by Marat and his allies.
February 8: Removal of the remains of Marat and three other extreme Jacobins from thePanthéon.
February 14; Several former Jacobin leaders in Lyon, who conducted the Terror there, are assassinated, beginning of the so-calledFirst White Terror.
February 17: An amnesty granted to former Vendéen rebels, restoring freedom of religion.
February 21: On a proposal byBoissy d'Anglas, the Convention proclaims freedom of religion and theseparation of church and state.
February 22: In the convention, the deputyRovère demands the punishment of Jacobins who carried out the Terror. Former Jacobin leaders in several cities placed under arrest. Four Jacobins inNîmes who conducted the Terror there are assassinated.
March 2: The Convention orders the arrest of Barère, Billaud-Varenne, Collot d'Herbois and Vadier, the Jacobins who had orchestrated the downfall of Robespierre.
March 5: In Toulon, arrest of the Jacobins who had carried out mass executions of the population.
March 8: Riot in Toulon bysans-culottes, who execute seven imprisonedémigrés.
March 17: Food riots in Paris.
March 19: Grain supplies in Paris are exhausted. Theassignat falls to eight percent of its original value.
March 21: On a proposal bySieyès, the Convention votes the death penalty for leaders of movements who try to overthrow the government.
March 28: Beginning of the trial ofFouquier-Tinville, the head of the Revolutionary Tribunal, who conducted the trials during the Terror.
April 1:Insurrection of 12 Germinal, Year III.Sans-culottes invade Convention, but leave when the National Guard arrives. Paris is declared in a state of siege.
April 1: The Convention orders the deportation toFrench Guiana of Barère,Billaud-Varenne, and Collot d'Herbois, and the arrest of eight extreme-left deputies.
April 2: The French army under Pichegru suppresses an armed uprising in theFaubourg Saint-Antoine.
April 5: Signature of a peace agreement betweenPrussia and France inBasel. Prussia accepts the French annexation of the left bank of the Rhine.
April 10: Convention orders the disarmament of Jacobins who were involved in the Terror.
April 11: The Convention restores civic rights to all citizens declared outside the law since May 31, 1793.
April 19: Assassination of six Jacobins involved in the Terror inBourg-en-Bresse.
April 23: The Convention names a commission of eight members to revise the Constitution.
May 2: Agreement of last Vendéen rebels to lay down their arms in exchange for amnesty.
May 4: Massacre of twenty-five Jacobins imprisoned in Lyon.
May 7: The former chief prosecutor,Fouquier-Tinville, and the fourteen jurors of the Revolutionary Tribunal are condemned to death and guillotined.

May 20–24, 1795 – Last Paris uprising by the Jacobins andsans-culottes

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May 20:Armed uprising against the Convention by Jacobins andsans-culottes. They invade the hall of the convention and kill deputy Féraud. The army responds quickly and clears out the hall. The Convention votes the arrest of the Deputies involved in the uprising.
May 21: New uprising of Jacobins andsans-culottes in Paris; they occupy theHôtel de Ville.
May 22: Third day of uprising in Paris. The Convention orders the army to occupy the Faubourg Saint-Antoine.
May 24: The army secures the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and disarms and arrests the participants in the uprising.
May 28: The last Jacobin former members of the Committees of Public Safety and General Security are arrested.
May 31: The Convention abolishes the Revolutionary Tribunal.
June 8: Death of the 10-year-oldLouis XVII imprisoned in the Temple. His uncle in exile, thecomte de Provence, inherits the title asLouis XVIII, king of France.
June 10: The Convention decriminalizes theémigrés who fled France after the Jacobin seizure of power on May 26, 1793.
June 12: Deputies who supported the May 20–22 uprising are put on trial.
June 17: Suicide of six deputies condemned to death for participation in the May 20–22 uprising.

June 25 – July 27, 1795 – Renewed uprisings in the Vendée and a royalist invasion of Brittany

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June 23: The rebels of the Vendée, underCharette, resume their rebellion.
June 23: In support of theChouans, an army ofémigrés, under the command ofJoseph de Puisaye,landed at Quiberon.
June 26: An army of four thousand royalistémigrés is landed by the British in the Bay ofCarnac inBrittany.
June 30: The royalist army ofémigrés in Brittany is defeated in front ofVannes by General Hoche.
June 30: The Chouans are forced to abandonAuray. The royalist army retreats to the peninsula ofQuiberon, where on July 7 they are besieged by Hoche.
July 15: Two thousand more royalistémigrés are landed at Quiberon, where they also are trapped by Hoche.
July 17: The FrenchArmy of the Western Pyrenees in Spain underMoncey capturesVitoria-Gasteiz and takesBilbao on July 19.
July 21: The royalist army in Quiberon surrenders. 748 émigrés are executed by firing squad.
July 22: ThePeace of Basel is signed between Spain and France. France receives from Spain the western portion of the island of Saint-Dominigue (now theDominican Republic). With Spain out of the war, France is at war only with Austria and England.
August 9: The Convention orders the arrest ofJoseph Fouché and several otherMontagnard deputies.
August 15: The Convention adopts theFranc as the French monetary unit.

August 22 – September 23, 1795 – The new Constitution is approved: the Directory takes power

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August 22:Constitution of the Year III (Constitution de l'An III), the new Constitution, is adopted by the convention. It calls for an upper and lower house of the parliament, on the American and British models, and an executive Directory of five members. According to the terms of the Constitution, two-thirds of the deputies of the new Assembly are former deputies of the convention.
September 23: Approved by a national referendum, the new Constitution comes into effect.

October 5, 1795 – "A whiff of grapeshot": General Bonaparte suppresses a royalist rebellion in Paris

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October 5:An armed royalist uprising threatens the convention. On the orders ofPaul Barras, in charge of the defense of Paris,General Bonaparte leads the army against the uprising. He uses cannons with grapeshot to break up a rebel gathering in front of thechurch of Saint-Roch,rue Saint-Honoré.
October 12: Beginning of elections to the new chambers of the legislature, theCouncil of Five Hundred and theCouncil of Ancients.
October 12:Montagnard army officers dismissed under the convention are reintegrated into the army.
October 23: Theassignat falls to just three percent of its nominal value. Twenty billion (20,000,000,000) notes in circulation.
October 26: Bonaparte is named commander in chief of theArmy of the Interior.
October 31: The firstDirectory is elected by the legislature; its members areLouis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux,Jean-François Rewbell,Étienne-François Letourneur,Paul Barras andEmmanuel Joseph Sieyès, who declines to serve and is replaced byLazare Carnot.
December 10: The legislature votes a forced loan of six hundred million francs to be taken from the wealthiest French citizens.
December 26: The daughter of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette,Madame Royale, imprisoned in the Temple since August 1792, is exchanged for a group of republican prisoners held in Austria.
December 31: Armistice on the Rhine halting combat between the French and Austrian armies.

1796 – Napoleon's campaign in Italy; Defeat of the royalists in the Vendée; a failed uprising in Paris

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General Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at theBattle of Lodi (May 10, 1796)
The capture ofFrançois de Charette, the royalist leader in the Vendée (February 23, 1796)
Failed uprising at the Grenelle military camp by Montagnards and followers ofBabeuf (9 September 1796)
General Bonaparte leads his soldiers across a bridge at theBattle of Arcole (November 15–17, 1796)

January 2: Creation by the Directory of the Ministry of the Police, underMerlin de Douai.^[22]
January 21: Commemoration of the anniversary of Louis XVI's execution. Director Rewbell gives a speech denouncing the extremism of the left.
January 25: The Directory is given the provisional power to name the administrators of cities.
January 26: The royalist and rebel leaderNicolas Stofflet tries to restart theWar in the Vendée.
February 2:Wolfe Tone, leader of the Irish revolutionaries, arrives in France, seeking military support to liberateIreland.
February 19: The government stops issuingassignats, which have lost most of their value. Thirty-nine billion (39,000,000,000) are in circulation.
February 20: The United States and Britain extend their treaty of November 19, 1794. Relations between France and the United States deteriorate.
February 23: The Vendéen rebel and royalist leader Nicolas Stofflet is captured and executed by firing squad inAngers the following day.
February 28: On the orders of the Directory, General Bonaparte closes the extreme leftistClub du Panthéon, founded by a follower of Marat.
March 2: The Directory names General Bonaparte the commander of theArmy of Italy.
March 9: Marriage ofNapoléon Bonaparte andJoséphine de Beauharnais, the widow ofAlexandre de Beauharnais, a French general and political leader guillotined during theReign of Terror.
March 18: The Directory replaces theassignat with two billion four hundred millionMandats territoriaux, which can be used to purchase nationalized property. Within three weeks they lose eighty percent of their value.
March 23: François de Charette, last leader of the royalist rebellion in Vendée, is captured and executed by firing squad inNantes.
March 30:François-Noël Babeuf, known as "Gracchus Babeuf", the ultra-leftist leader and precursor ofCommunism, forms an insurrectional committee and movement, calledLes Égaux ("the Equals"), to overthrow the government. They hold a demonstration in Paris on April 6.
April 10: Bonaparte begins hisItalian campaign with victories over the Austrians at Montenotte (April 12) and the Sardinians at Millesimo (April 13).
May 2: Babeuf's followers and the remainingMontagnards form a common plan to overthrow the Directory.
May 9: Bonaparte forces an armistice upon theDuke andDuchess of Parma.
May 10: Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at theBattle of Lodi.
May 15: Treaty signed in Paris between the Directory and kingVictor Amadeus III of Sardinia. The king agrees to cedeSavoy andNice to France.
May 19: InMilan, Bonaparte promises "independence" for Italy.
May 20: The Austrians renounce the armistice along the Rhine, and thewar resumes on that front.
June 4: Bonaparte begins thesiege of Mantua, the last Italian city held by Austria.
June 5: Bonaparte signs an armistice with theking of Sicily.
June 12: Bonaparte's army entersRomagna, one of thePapal States.
June 22: End of the civil war in the west of France, with the submission ofGeorges Cadoudal and the departure ofLouis de Frotté for England.
June 23: Bonaparte signs theArmistice of Bologna with theHoly See, which permits the French occupation of the northern Papal States.
July 9: The Island ofElba is occupied by the British.
July 10: A new Austrian army underWurmser arrives in Italy.
July 16: GeneralKléber capturesFrankfurt.
July 18: French army under GeneralLaurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr capturesStuttgart.
July 20: GeneralHoche is named head of an army to invade Ireland in support of the Irish independence movement.
August 5: Bonaparte defeats the Austrians underWurmser at theBattle of Castiglione. The Austrian army retreats to theTyrol.
August 19:Treaty of alliance signed between France and Spain at San Ildefonso.
September 8: Bonaparte defeats the Austrians under Wurmser at theBattle of Bassano.
September 9:Grenelle camp affair - failed uprising by supporters ofGracchus Babeuf against theFrench Directory
October 5: Spain, now allied with France, declares war on Britain.
October 10: The thirty-two leaders of the September 9–10 Babeuf uprising are tried by a military tribunal and sentenced to death.
October 16: Bonaparte encourages the proclamation of aCispadane Republic in northern Italy, composed ofModena and some of the Papal states.
November 2: Austria sends two more armies to northern Italy to confront Bonaparte.
November 15–17: Decisive victory of Bonaparte over the Austrians at theBattle of Arcole.
December 4: Abrogation of the harshest parts of the October 25, 1795 laws punishingémigrés and refractory priests.
December 15–17: Departure fromBrest of a fleet carrying a French army commanded by Hocheto invade Ireland.
December 24–25: Storms dislocate theFrench invasion fleet off the coast of Ireland and force it to return to France.

1797 – Bonaparte chases the Austrians from Italy; a republican coup d'état against the royalists in Paris

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General Bonaparte byDavid (1797)
Bonaparte defeats Austrians at theBattle of Rivoli (January 14, 1797 )
Republican coup d'état of September 4, 1797. Arrest of GeneralPichegru and other royalist leaders of the legislature by the army at the Tuileries Palace.
GeneralPichegru, leader of the royalist party

January 7: A new Austrian army commanded by GeneralJózsef Alvinczi is sent to fight General Bonaparte in Italy.
January 14: Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at theBattle of Rivoli.
February 2: Surrender of last Austrian forces in Italy, inMantua, to Bonaparte.
February 9: Bonaparte occupiesAncona to forcePope Pius VI to negotiate with him. Negotiations begin February 12.
February 14: Defeat of the Spanish fleet, ally of the French, at theBattle of Cape Saint Vincent.
February 19: Pius VI cedesComtat Venaissin and the northern portion of the Italian papal states to the newCispadane Republic.
February 20: Beginning of the trial of Babeuf and his leading followers at the High Court of Justice inVendôme.
March 2: The Directory authorizes French warships to capture U.S. ships, in retaliation for the British-US treaty of February 20, 1796.
March 9: Bonaparte begins a new offensive in Italy against the army of theArchduke Charles, Duke of Teschen.
March 18: French voters are required to take an oath of fidelity to the government before voting on April 18.
April 7: After a series of victories by Bonaparte, the Austrians agree to negotiate.
April 18: PreliminaryTreaty of Leoben; Austria gives up its claim to theAustrian Netherlands ("Belgian Provinces"); a secret agreement divides the territories of Venice between Austria and France.
April 18: Results of partial elections for the legislature. 205 of the 216 deputies running are defeated, and many are replaced by royalists.
April 27: Massacre of anti-French insurgents inVerona by French army.
April 30: The Directory ratifies theTreaty of Leoben.
May 2: Bonaparte declares war on Venice.
May 12: Revolutionaries overthrow the government council (Patriciate) ofVenice.
May 16: Bonaparte begins negotiations with theDoge of Venice,Ludovico Manin.
May 20: New session of the French legislature begins. The royalist Pichegru is chosen president of the Council of Five Hundred, and another royalist,François Barbé-Marbois becomes president of the Council of Ancients.
May 20: A drawing of lots removes the moderate republicanÉtienne-François Letourneur. He is replaced by the royalist diplomatFrançois Barthélemy on June 6.
May 26: The political agitatorBabeuf and one supporter,Darthé, are sentenced to death. They are executed inVendôme on May 27.
June 4: First meeting of theCercle Constitutionnel, a club of prominent moderate republican deputies. Its leaders includeSieyès,Talleyrand, andGarat.
June 14: Bonaparte installs a new government inGenoa, with the aim of creating a newLigurian Republic.
June 24: The Director Paul Barras contacts General Hoche, seeking support for acoup d'état against the royalist majority in the two Councils.
June 27: The royalist majority in the Councils repeals the law of October 25, 1795, which added punishments against refractory priests andémigrés.
June 28: French troops land onCorfu, previously owned by Venice.
June 28: General Hoche sends 15,000 soldiers from the Rhine to Brest via Paris, on the pretext of planning an invasion of Ireland.
July 3: Talleyrand proposes a French expedition againstEgypt.
July 9: The French support the formation of theCisalpine Republic, composed of the formerCispadane Republic andLombardy.
July 16: Conflict within the Directory between Barthélemy and Carnot, favorable to the monarchists, and the three pro-republican directors, Barras, La Révellière-Lépeaux, and Rewbell.
July 17: The army of Hoche arrives within threeleagues (see also:Units of measurement in France before the French Revolution) of Paris, a violation of the Constitution. The royalist Councils protest.
July 20: Barras produces evidence that General Pichegru was in secret correspondence withLouis XVIII and the monarchists. Carnot joins sides with the three republican directors.
July 25: The Councils vote a law forbidding political clubs, including the republicanCercle Constitutionnel.
July 27: Bonaparte sends GeneralAugereau to Paris as military commander of the city, to support acoup d'état against the royalists.
August 16: Bonaparte writes to the Directory, proposing a military intervention in Egypt "to truly destroy England".

September 4, 1797 – A republican coup d'état against the royalists

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September 4: Coup d'état of18 Fructidor against the royalists in the legislature. Augereau arrests Barthélemy, Pichegru, and the leading royalist deputies.
September 5: The Directory forces the Councils to adopt new laws annulling the elections of 200 royalist deputies in 53 departments, and deporting 65 royalist leaders and journalists.
September 8: Election of two new republican directors,Merlin de Douai andFrançois de Neufchâteau, to replace Carnot and Barthélemy.
September 23: General Augereau, who carried out the September 4 coup, is named commander of the new Army of the Rhine.
September 29: Directory instructs Bonaparte to win major concessions in negotiations with Austria, and, in the event of refusal, to march onVienna.
October 17: Signature of peace between Austria and France in theTreaty of Campo Formio. Austria obtains Venice and its possessions, while France receives Belgium and the left bank of theRhine River as far asCologne.
December 21: Bonaparte meets with the Irish leaderWolfe Tone to discuss a future French landing in Ireland.
December 28: Anti-French riots in Rome, and murder of a French general,Mathurin-Léonard Duphot.
December 29: Pope Pius VI apologizes to France for the Rome riots; apologies are rejected by the Directory.

1798 – New republics in Switzerland and Italy; an election annulled; Bonaparte invades Egypt

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The French Army under GeneralBerthier enters Rome (February 10, 1798)
General Bonaparte at theBattle of the Pyramids (July 21, 1798)
The French fleet is defeated byAdmiral Nelson at theBattle of the Nile (August 1, 1798)

January 5: The French legislature passes a law authorizing a loan of eighty million francs to prepare an invasion of England.
January 11: The Directory orders GeneralBerthier and his army to march on Rome to punish the papal government for the murder of General Duphot.
January 12: Bonaparte presents a plan for an invasion of England to the Directory.
January 18: The legislature authorizes French ships to seize neutral ships carrying British merchandise.
January 24: TheVaud region of Switzerland, with French support, declares independence from the Swiss government inBern.
January 26: The Directory authorizes French troops to intervene on behalf of the Swiss uprising in Vaud against the Swiss government.
February 10: Berthier and his army enter Rome.
February 14:Talleyrand presents to the Directory a project for a French conquest of Egypt.
February 15: General Berthier, in Rome, proclaims a newRoman Republic, under French protection.
February 23: Bonaparte recommends to the Directory the abandonment of the invasion of England, and an invasion of Egypt instead.
March 5: The Directory approves Bonaparte's plan to invade Egypt.
March 6: The French army capturesBern.
March 9: The Parliament of German states, meeting in Rastadt, accepts theannexation of the left bank of the Rhine by France.
March 22: Under the sponsorship ofGeneral Brune, an assembly inAarau proclaims aHelvetic Republic.
April 4: Following the French model, the new Helvetic Republic declares itself a secular republic.
April 9–18: Elections for one-third of the seats in the French legislature.
April 26: TheTraité de Réunion formally unites the Republic of Geneva (fr) with the French Republic.^[23]
May 7: A report to the Council of Five Hundred declares that the French elections were irregular, and recommends exclusion of candidates of the far left.
May 11: By theLaw of 22 Floréal Year VI, the Council of Ancients and the Council of Five Hundred invalidate the election of 106 Jacobin deputies.
May 15:Jean Baptiste Treilhard is elected to the Directory in place ofFrançois de Neufchâteau.
May 19: Bonaparte and hisArmée d'Orient set sail from Toulon for Egypt.
May 23: Anti-British uprising begins in Ireland; the Irish rebels believe that Bonaparte is sailing to Ireland.
June 9–11: Bonaparte invades and capturesMalta.
July 1–2: Bonaparte lands in Egypt and capturesAlexandria.
July 14: Irish uprising suppressed by the British army.
July 21: Bonaparte defeats theMameluks at theBattle of the Pyramids.
July 24: Bonaparte and his army enter Cairo.
August 1:Admiral Nelson and the British fleet destroy the French fleet at theBattle of the Nile, stranding Bonaparte in Egypt.
August 6: A French fleet and expeditionary force sails for Ireland to aid the Irish rebels, though the rebellion is already defeated.
August 22: French troops underGeneral Humbert land atKillala, in northwest Ireland.
August 27: General Humbert defeats a British force at theBattle of Castlebar, and declares an Irish republic.
September 2: Suppression of a royalist revolt in the south of theMassif Central in France and the arrest of its leaders.
September 5: TheJourdan law requires all French men between twenty and twenty-five to perform military service.
September 9: The forces of General Humbert are surrounded by the British army at theBattle of Ballinamuck and forced to surrender.
September 16: A new French expeditionary force sails from Brest to Ireland.
September 24: The French governmentcalls 200,000 men for military service.
October 8: François de Neufchâteau, Minister of the Interior, creates the first Higher Council on Public Education.
October 11: French fleet and expeditionary force defeated off coast of Ireland; six of eight warships captured.
October 12: Belgian peasants rebel against obligatory service in French army.
October 21: Population ofCairo rebels against French occupation. Rebellion suppressed by Bonaparte on October 22.
November 4: Directory orders deportation of Belgian priests, blamed for peasant uprising.
November 5: A Russian-Turkish fleet blockadesCorfu occupied by the French army.
November 16: Austria and England agree to cooperate to force France back to its 1789 boundaries.
November 23–24: Directory, desperate for money, imposes new real estate tax and additional taxes based on number of doors and windows.
November 27: The army of theKing of Naples captures Rome.
December 4: French troops defeat Belgian rebels atHasselt and massacre insurgents. End of peasant uprising in Belgium.
December 6: French army underJean Étienne Championnet defeats the army of theKing of Naples andhis wife at Battle of Civita Castellana.
December 14: French army under Championnet recaptures Rome.
December 21: French army attacks Naples and forces King of Naples to take sanctuary on the flagship of Admiral Nelson.
December 29:Alliance (Second Coalition) between Russia, Britain and the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily against France signed.

1799 – France at War in Italy and Germany; Bonaparte returns from Egypt; the Consulate seizes power; End of the Revolution

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General Bonaparte visits a plague hospital in Jaffa (March 31, 1799).Antoine-Jean Gros,Louvre Museum
PopePius VI was moved to France as a prisoner of the Directory (April 10, 1799)
GeneralAndré Masséna forced the Russians out of Switzerland (September 26, 1799)

January 10: The army ofGeneral Championnet capturesCapua.
January 23: French army occupiesNaples
January 26: Proclamation of a new republic in Naples, namedParthénopéenne by the Directory
February 1: Victory of GeneralLouis Desaix over theMameluks atAswan completes the French conquest of upper Egypt.
February 3: Conflict between Generals Championnet andFaipoult over the command of French troops in Naples.
February 6: Championnet orders the expulsion of Faipoult from Naples.
February 20: Bonaparte marches his army from Cairo towardSyria.
February 20: Bonaparte defeats a Turkish army and occupiesArish in theSinai Peninsula.
February 24: The Directory orders the arrest of General Championnet.
February 24: GeneralJean-Baptiste Jourdan assembles theArmy of the Danube and prepares to cross the Rhine and invade German states and Austria.
March 1–2: French armies under Jourdan andBernadotte cross the Rhine.
March 3: French troops inCorfu surrender, after a long siege by a Russian-Turkish fleet.
March 7: Bonaparte capturesJaffa inPalestine. Some of his soldiers are infected with theplague.
March 11: Bonaparte visits the hospital for plague victims in Jaffa.
March 12: The Directory declares war on Austria and on theGrand Duchy of Tuscany.
March 19: Bonaparte lays siege toSaint-Jean-d'Acre in Palestine.
March 21: French troops enter the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
March 23: Army of GeneralMassena defeated by Austrians atBattle of Feldkirch.
March 25: Defeat of Jourdan by Austrians atBattle of Stockach.
March 28: Bonaparte tries unsuccessfully to capture Saint-Jean-d'Acre.
April 1: Bonaparte fails again to take Saint-Jean-d'Acre.
April 3: Jourdan resigns as commander of the Army of the Danube. His army pulls back to the west bank of theRhine on April 6.
April 9: Beginning oflegislative elections to replace one-third of members.
April 10: PopePius VI, a prisoner of the French, is transferred to France.
April 14: The Austrian army ofMelas and the Russian army ofAlexander Suvorov join in Italy.
April 16: Bonaparte defeats theOttoman army led byAbdullah Pasha al-Azm at theBattle of Mount Tabor.
April 18:1799 French legislative election results in a major loss for supporters of the government, and a victory for the extreme left.
April 24: Bonaparte fails a third time to capture Saint-Jean-d'Acre.
April 27: Alexander Suvorov's Russo-Austrian army defeats French forces underGeneral Moreau at theBattle of Cassano.
April 29: Suvorov entersMilan.
May 1: Bonaparte fails for a fourth time to capture Saint-Jean-d'Acre.
May 10: Fifth and last attempt by Bonaparte to capture Saint-Jean-d'Acre. He lifts the siege on May 17.
May 16: As the result of the system of drawing lots, Rewbell leaves the Directory and is replaced by Sieyès, who is seen as a moderate leftist.
May 19: An English fleet lands soldiers atOstend in Belgium. The expedition fails, and withdraws the following day.
May 26: Russo-Austrian army entersTurin.
June 4–6:Masséna is forced to withdraw his forces fromZürich.
June 14: Bonaparte returns to Cairo.

Conflicts between the Directory and the Legislature (June 1799)

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General Jourdan, leader of the Jacobins in the army
The royalist generalLouis de Frotté commanded a new rebellion against Paris in the west of France
The French army underGeneral Masséna wins a decisive victory over the Austrians and Russians at theSecond Battle of Zürich (September 24–25, 1799)
The British AdmiralSir Sidney Smith sends Bonaparte a packet of French newspapers, letting him know of events in Paris. Bonaparte promptly leaves his army in Egypt and sails for France. (August 23, 1799)

June 16: A serious struggle begins between the newly elected left-wing members of the Council of Five Hundred and the Directory, due to the string of French military defeats. The legislature demands new measures for "public safety".
June 17: The Council of Five Hundred and Council of the Ancients annul the election ofJean Baptiste Treilhard to the Directory and replace him with a leftist member,Louis-Jérôme Gohier.
June 18–19: Two royalist members of the Directory, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai and La Révellière-Lépeaux, are forced to resign, under threat of being brought to trial by the Councils. They are replaced by two moderate leftists,Roger Ducos, andJean-François-Auguste Moulin. (Coup of 30 Prairial Year VII )
June 19: A French army underÉtienne Macdonald is defeated by the Russians under Suvorov at theBattle of the Trebia.
June 19: Another reversal in Italy: the French garrison of Naples surrenders.
June 28: The Council votes to demand a forced loan of one hundred million francs from wealthy citizens to equip new armies.
July 5: Two commanders with neo-Jacobin sympathies are promoted by the Directory:Joubert is named new commander of theArmy of Italy, and Championnet is chosen to command theArmy of the Alps.
July 7: A neo-Jacobin club, theSociété des amis de la Liberté et de l'Égalité ("Society of the Friends of Liberty and Equality"), is founded in Paris.
July 12: The Council of Five Hundred votes a new law on hostages, demands lists of royalists be made in each department, and brings accusations against former members of the Directory with royalist tendencies.
July 14: At a celebration of the anniversary of the Revolution, General Jourdan calls "bringing back the pikes", the weapons of the Jacobin street mobs during the Terror. On the same day, Siéyès gives a speech denouncing the new Jacobins.
July 17: AnOttoman army under the command ofSeid Mustafa Pasha, transported to Egypt by Sidney Smith's British fleet, lands atAbukir.
July 25: Bonaparte defeats Seid Mustafa Pasha's Ottoman army at theBattle of Abukir.
August 6: Royalist uprisings in Toulouse and Bordeaux. Both are quickly suppressed by the army.
August 13: Sieyès orders the closing of the new Jacobin Club in Paris.
August 15: Defeat of the French Army of Italy under General Joubert at theBattle of Novi. Joubert is killed.
August 18: The Council of Five Hundred decides, by a vote of 217–214, not to arrest and try the former members of the Directory accused of royalist sympathies.
August 23: Bonaparte has had no news from France in six months. The British admiralSir Sidney Smith sends him a packet of French newspapers, which he reads in one night. He hands over command of the army toGeneral Kléber and leaves Egypt with a small party aboard the frigateLa Muiron.^[24]
August 29: Pope Pius VI dies, a French prisoner, inValence.
August 29: Championnet, prominent among the Jacobin generals, is named new commander of the Army of Italy.
September 13: General Jourdan, leader of the Jacobins in the army, asks the Council of Five Hundred to declare a state of national emergency.
September 14: Council of Five Hundred refuses to declare a state of national emergency.
September 14: The Director Sieyès obtains the resignation ofJean Bernadotte as Minister of War, on the grounds that Bernadotte was planning a Jacobin coup d'état.
September 15: The royalist leaders in the west of France, including the Breton Chouan leaderGeorges Cadoudal, meet to organize a new uprising against Paris.
September 24: The royalist military commander Louis de Frotté lands in Normandy to take charge of the new uprising.
September 25–26: General Masséna defeats the Russian-Austrian army ofAlexander Rimsky-Korsakov at theSecond Battle of Zurich.
September 29: The Russian army under Suvorov is forced to retreat across the Alps.
October 6: A French-Dutch army under GeneralBrune defeats a Russian-British force at theBattle of Castricum. The British and Russians withdraw their troops from the Netherlands.

Bonaparte returns to France (October 9, 1799)

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October 9: Bonaparte lands atSaint-Raphaël.
October 14: Sieyès invites GeneralMoreau to organize a coup d'état against the Jacobins in the Councils, but Moreau refuses.
October 16: Bonaparte arrives in Paris for public celebrations.
October 17: Bonaparte is received by the Directory.
October 19: The royalist forces in the west, the Chouans, captureNantes, but are forced to withdraw the next day.
October 23: The Russian CzarPaul I orders the withdrawal of Russian troops from the war against the French.
October 23:Lucien Bonaparte, younger brother of General Napoléon Bonaparte, is elected President of the Council of Five Hundred.
October 23–29: Royalist forces in Brittany and the Vendée briefly capture several cities, but are quickly driven out by the French army.
November 1: Bonaparte meets with Sieyès; the two men dislike each other but agree to a parliamentary coup d'état to replace the Directory.
November 3: Bonaparte meets withFouché, the Minister of Police, who agrees not to interfere with a coup d'état.
November 6: The Councils of the Ancients and the Five Hundred offer a banquet to Bonaparte at the formerchurch of Saint Sulpice.
November 7: General Jourdan proposes that Bonaparte join him in a Jacobin coup d'état against the Directory. Bonaparte refuses.
November 8: Bonaparte dines withCambacérès and arranges the final details of the coup d'état.

The Coup d'État of November 9–10

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Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès proposed the coup d'état, but was left out of the final government
The DirectorPaul Barras was persuaded not to oppose Bonaparte's coup d'état
Lucien Bonaparte, 24 years old, was elected President of the Council of Five Hundred, and aided Bonaparte's coup d'état
Joseph Fouché, Minister of Police, assured that the police would not interfere in Bonaparte's seizure of power
Bonaparte confronts the deputies of the Council of Five Hundred (November 10, 1799)
Bonaparte as First Consul (1804), by Antoine Gros,Musée de la Légion d'honneur, Paris

November 9: Thecoup d'état of 18 Brumaire begins. French troops loyal to Bonaparte occupy key points in Paris. Lucien Bonaparte, the president of the Council of Five Hundred, warns the deputies that a "terrorist" plot against the legislature has been discovered, and asks that the meetings of the Councils, scheduled for the next day, be moved for their security to thechâteau of Saint-Cloud, some 10 kilometers west of Paris. Bonaparte is namedCommander-in-chief of the army in Paris.
As agreed in advance, two members of the Directory who are complicit in the coup, Sieyès and Ducos, offer their resignation. A third, Barras, is talked into resigning by Talleyrand. The two Jacobin directors, Gohier andMoulin, are arrested by the soldiers of General Moreau and confined at theLuxembourg Palace. Fouché proposes to arrest the leading Jacobin members of the Council of Five Hundred, but Bonaparte does not feel it is necessary, which proves to be a mistake. By the end of the day, Paris is entirely under the control of Bonaparte and officers loyal to him.
November 10: As proposed by Bonaparte, the members of the two Councils are transported to the château of Saint-Cloud. 6,000 soldiers have been assembled by Bonaparte there, soldiers who are largely hostile to the Councils because of delays in their pay.
Bonaparte speaks first to the Council of the Ancients, explaining the need for a change in government. The upper Council listens in silence and votes without opposition to accept Bonaparte's proposal. Bonaparte then addresses the Council of Five Hundred, meeting in theorangerie of the domain of Saint-Cloud. Here his reception is much different: the Jacobin members protest angrily, insult and shout down Bonaparte, threatening to declare him outside the law, which would have led to his immediate arrest. While the Council debated in great confusion inside, Lucien Bonaparte takes Bonaparte outside, and tells the waiting soldiers that the deputies had tried to assassinate Bonaparte. The soldiers, furious, invade the meeting hall and chase out the deputies at the point of bayonets. In the absence of the opposition deputies, two parliamentary commissions name Bonaparte, Sieyès and Duclos as the provisional consuls of a new government.
November 11–22: Bonaparte and the two other Provisional Consuls form a new government,Berthier as minister of War, Talleyrand in charge of foreign relations, Fouché as minister of Police, and Cambacérès as minister of Justice.
December 1: Bonaparte rejects a constitution proposed by Sieyès.
December 24: The Councils, now firmly under the control of Bonaparte, adopt theConstitution of the Year VIII. The newConsulate is formally established, with Bonaparte as First Consul, Cambacérès as Second Consul, andCharles-François Lebrun as Third Consul. Traditional histories mark this date as the end of theFrench Revolution .^[25]

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^Popkin, Jeremy D. (2019).A new world begins: the history of the French Revolution (First ed.). New York: Basic Books. pp. 60–64.ISBN 978-0-465-09666-4.Warned that the restoration of the parlements might weaken his authority, Louis XVI supposedly replied, "It may be considered politically unwise, but it seems to me that it is the general will, and I wish to be loved.
^Bouton, Cynthia A (1993).The flour war : Gender, Class, and Community in late Ancien Régime French society. University Park, Pennsylvania. : Pennsylvania State University Press.ISBN 9780271010533.
^Melzer, S.E.; Rabine, L.W. (1992).Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution. University of California Humanities Research Institute Series. Oxford University Press. p. 158.ISBN 978-0-19-028180-9. Retrieved2023-02-09.
^Jean Tulard, Jean-François Fayard, Alfred Fierro,Histoire et dictionnaire de la Révolution française, Robert Laffont,
^Jean Tulard, Jean-François Fayard, Alfred Fierro,Histoire et dictionnaire de la Révolution française, Robert Laffont, Paris, 1998. (In French)
^Tulard, Fayard & Fierro 1998, p. 318.
^Tulard, Fayard & Fierro 1998, p. 79.
^^a ^bTulard, Fayard & Fierro 1998, p. 339.
^Ghachem, Malick W. The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
^^a ^bMcPhee, Peter (2017).Liberty or death: the French Revolution (Kindle ed.). New Haven London: Yale University Press. p. 268.ISBN 978-0-300-22869-4.
^Mignet, François (1834)."History of the French Revolution, from 1789 to 1814". RetrievedOctober 16, 2016.[H]e thought he ought not to reject a symbol, meaningless for him, but in the eyes of the people, that of liberty; he placed on his head a red cap presented to him on the top of a pike. The multitude were quite satisfied with this condescension. A moment or two afterwards, they loaded him with applause, as, almost suffocated with hunger and thirst, he drank off, without hesitation, a glass of wine presented to him[.]
^Tulard, Fayard & Fierro 1998, pp. 1094–1095.
^Howe,Foreign Policy and the French Revolution, Springer, 2008, p. 113.
^Cited in Tulard, Fayard and Fierro,Histoire et dictionnaire de la Révolution française (1998), p. 1113
^Koch, Christophe-Guillaume,Histoire abrégée des traités de paix entre les puissances de l'Europe, depuis la Paix de Westphalie, Tome I, Méline, Cans & Compagnie, Bruxelles, 1857, p. 550.[1] (French)
^"To What Extent Was Robespierre the Driving Force of the Great Terror?…".coggle.it.
^The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny by Ian Davidson, p. xiv
^The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny by Ian Davidson, p. xiv
^Tulard, Fayard & Fierro 1998, p. 369.
^Lazare Carnot, republican patriot, by Huntley Dupre, p. 185-187
^Richard T. Bienvenu (1968) The Ninth of Thermidor, p. 223
^Ministère de l'Intérieur: Police nationale, République française,Histoire, sectionLa Révolution française (1789-1799)[2], (French)
^Traité de Réunion de la République de Genève à la France, 26 April 1798.[3] (In French)
^Thiers, Adolphe,Histoire de la Révolution française, 1839 (Ninth edition), Volume 10, Chapter XIII, Project Gutenberg digital edition
^Tulard, Fayard & Fierro 1998, p. 410.

Bibliography

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Cobban, Alfred. "The Beginning of the French Revolution"History 30#111 (1945), pp. 90–98

online

Doyle, William.The Oxford History of the French Revolution (3rd ed. 2018)excerpt
Mignet, François, Member of the Institute of France,History of the French Revolution, from 1789 to 1814, Bell & Daldy, London, 1873.
Popkin, Jeremy.A Short History of the French Revolution (2014)excerpt

In French

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Bezbakh, Pierre (2004).Petit Larousse de l'histoire de France. Larousse.ISBN 2-03505369-2.
Gallo, Max (2009).Révolution française (in French). XO Editions.ISBN 978-2-84563-350-6.
Thiers, Adolphe (1839).Histoire de la Révolution française (in French). Project Gutenberg..
Tulard, Jean; Fayard, Jean-François; Fierro, Alfred (1998).Histoire et dictionnaire de la Révolution française (in French). Robert Laffont.ISBN 2-221-08850-6..

French Revolution

Significant civil and political events by year
1788	Day of the Tiles (7 Jun 1788) Assembly of Vizille (21 Jul 1788)
1789	What Is the Third Estate? (Jan 1789) Réveillon riots (28 Apr 1789) Convocation of the Estates General (5 May 1789) Death of the Dauphin (4 June 1789) National Assembly (17 Jun – 9 Jul 1790) Tennis Court Oath (20 Jun 1789) National Constituent Assembly (9 Jul – 30 Sep 1791) Storming of the Bastille (14 Jul 1789) Great Fear (20 Jul – 5 Aug 1789) Abolition of Feudalism (4–11 Aug 1789) Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (26 Aug 1789) Women's March on Versailles (5 Oct 1789) Nationalization of the Church properties (2 Nov 1789)
1790	Abolition of the Parlements (Feb–Jul 1790) Avignon–Comtat Venaissin War (Jun 1790 – 1791) Abolition of theNobility (23 Jun 1790) Civil Constitution of the Clergy (12 Jul 1790) Fête de la Fédération (14 Jul 1790)
1791	Flight to Varennes (20–21 Jun 1791) Champ de Mars massacre (17 Jul 1791) Declaration of Pillnitz (27 Aug 1791) The Constitution of 1791 (3 Sep 1791) National Legislative Assembly (1 Oct 1791 – Sep 1792)
1792	France declares war (20 Apr 1792) Brunswick Manifesto (25 Jul 1792) Paris Commune becomes insurrectionary (Jun 1792) 10th of August (10 Aug 1792) September Massacres (Sep 1792) National Convention (20 Sep 1792 – 26 Oct 1795) First republic declared (22 Sep 1792)
1793	Execution of Louis XVI (21 Jan 1793) Revolutionary Tribunal (9 Mar 1793 – 31 May 1795) Reign of Terror (27 Jun 1793 – 27 Jul 1794) Committee of Public Safety Committee of General Security Fall of the Girondists (2 Jun 1793) Assassination of Marat (13 Jul 1793) Levée en masse (23 Aug 1793) The Death of Marat (painting) Law of Suspects (17 Sep 1793) Marie Antoinette is guillotined (16 Oct 1793) Anti-clerical laws (throughout the year)
1794	Danton andDesmoulins guillotined (5 Apr 1794) Law of 22 Prairial (10 Jun 1794) Thermidorian Reaction (27 Jul 1794) Robespierre guillotined (28 Jul 1794) White Terror (Fall 1794) Closing of the Jacobin Club (11 Nov 1794)
1795–6	Insurrection of 12 Germinal Year III (1 Apr 1795) Constitution of the Year III (22 Aug 1795) Directoire (1795–99) Council of Five Hundred Council of Ancients 13 Vendémiaire (5 Oct 1795) Conspiracy of the Equals (May 1796)
1797	Coup of 18 Fructidor (4 Sep 1797) Second Congress of Rastatt (Dec 1797)
1798	Law of 22 Floréal Year VI (11 May 1798)
1799	Coup of 30 Prairial VII (18 Jun 1799) Coup of 18 Brumaire (9 Nov 1799) Constitution of the Year VIII (24 Dec 1799) Consulate

Revolutionary campaigns
1792	Verdun Thionville Valmy Royalist Revolts Chouannerie Vendée Dauphiné Lille Siege of Mainz Jemappes Namur
1793	First Coalition War in the Vendée Battle of Neerwinden Battle of Famars (23 May 1793) Expedition to Sardinia (21 Dec 1792 – 25 May 1793) Battle of Kaiserslautern Siege of Mainz Battle of Wattignies Battle of Hondschoote Siege of Bellegarde Battle of Peyrestortes (Pyrenees) Siege of Toulon (18 Sep – 18 Dec 1793) First Battle of Wissembourg (13 Oct 1793) Battle of Truillas (Pyrenees) Second Battle of Wissembourg (26–27 Dec 1793)
1794	Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies (24 Apr 1794) Second Battle of Boulou (Pyrenees) (30 Apr – 1 May 1794) Battle of Tourcoing (18 May 1794) Battle of Tournay (22 May 1794) Glorious First of June (1 Jun 1794) Battle of Fleurus (26 Jun 1794) Chouannerie Battle of Aldenhoven (2 Oct 1794) Siege of Luxembourg (22 Nov 1794 – 7 Jun 1795)
1795	Siege of Luxembourg (22 Nov 1794 – 7 Jun 1795) Peace of Basel
1796	Italian campaign (1796) Battle of Lonato (3–4 Aug 1796) Battle of Castiglione (5 Aug 1796) Battle of Theiningen Battle of Neresheim (11 Aug 1796) Battle of Amberg (24 Aug 1796) Battle of Würzburg (3 Sep 1796) Battle of Rovereto (4 Sep 1796) First Battle of Bassano (8 Sep 1796) Battle of Emmendingen (19 Oct 1796) Battle of Schliengen (26 Oct 1796) Second Battle of Bassano (6 Nov 1796) Battle of Calliano (6–7 Nov 1796) Battle of Arcole (15–17 Nov 1796) Ireland expedition (Dec 1796)
1797	Italian campaign (1797) Naval Engagement off Brittany (13 Jan 1797) Battle of Rivoli (14–15 Jan 1797) Battle of the Bay of Cádiz (25 Jan 1797) Treaty of Leoben (17 Apr 1797) Battle of Neuwied (18 Apr 1797) Treaty of Campo Formio (17 Oct 1797)
1798	French invasion of Switzerland (28 January – 17 May 1798) French Invasion of Egypt (1798–1801) Irish Rebellion of 1798 (23 May – 23 Sep 1798) Quasi-War (1798–1800) Peasants' War (12 Oct – 5 Dec 1798)
1799	Second Coalition (1798–1802) Siege of Acre (20 Mar – 21 May 1799) Battle of Ostrach (20–21 Mar 1799) Battle of Stockach (25 Mar 1799) Battle of Magnano (5 Apr 1799) Battle of Cassano (27–28 Apr 1799) First Battle of Zurich (4–7 Jun 1799) Battle of Trebbia (17–20 Jun 1799) Battle of Novi (15 Aug 1799) Second Battle of Zurich (25–26 Sep 1799)
1800	Battle of Marengo (14 Jun 1800) Convention of Alessandria (15 Jun 1800) Battle of Hohenlinden (3 Dec 1800) League of Armed Neutrality (1800–02)
1801	Treaty of Lunéville (9 Feb 1801) Treaty of Florence (18 Mar 1801) Algeciras campaign (8 Jul 1801)
1802	Treaty of Amiens (25 Mar 1802) Treaty of Paris (25 Jun 1802)

Military leaders

France

French Army

French Navy

Charles-Alexandre Linois

Opposition

Austria	József Alvinczi Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen Count of Clerfayt (Walloon) Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg Friedrich Freiherr von Hotze (Swiss) Friedrich Adolf, Count von Kalckreuth Pál Kray (Hungarian) Charles Eugene, Prince of Lambesc (French) Maximilian Baillet de Latour (Walloon) Karl Mack von Leiberich Rudolf Ritter von Otto (Saxon) Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld Peter Vitus von Quosdanovich Prince Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen Johann Mészáros von Szoboszló (Hungarian) Karl Philipp Sebottendorf Dagobert von Wurmser
Britain	Sir Ralph Abercromby James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
Netherlands	William V, Prince of Orange
Prussia	Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
Russia	Alexander Korsakov Alexander Suvorov Andrei Rosenberg
Spain	Luis Firmin de Carvajal Antonio Ricardos

Other significant figures and factions

Patriotic Society of 1789

Feuillants
andmonarchiens

Girondins

The Plain

Montagnards

Hébertists
andEnragés

Others

Figures

Factions

Influential thinkers
Les Lumières Influence of the American Revolution on the French Revolution Beaumarchais Edmund Burke Anacharsis Cloots Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Pierre Claude François Daunou Diderot Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson Antoine Lavoisier Montesquieu Thomas Paine Jean-Jacques Rousseau Abbé Sieyès Voltaire Mary Wollstonecraft

Cultural impact

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Pre-1788 – The pre-revolution; challenging absolutism

1788 – The royal treasury is empty; prelude to revolution

1789 – The Revolution Begins; the Estates-General and the Constituent Assembly

July 14, 1789 – The Siege and Surrender of the Bastille

August 27, 1789 – Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

October 4, 1789 – Women's March on Versailles

1790 – the Rise of the Political Clubs

July 14, 1790 –Fête de la Fédération

1791 – The unsuccessful flight of the Royal Family from Paris

June 20–21, 1791 – The Royal Family flees Paris

1792 – War and the overthrow of the monarchy

August 10, 1792 – Storming of the Tuileries; Downfall of the King

September 2–7, 1792 – Massacres in Paris prisons

September 20, 1792 – French victory at Valmy; Debut of the Convention

December 10, 1792 – January 21, 1793 – Trial and Execution of Louis XVI

1793 – France at war against Europe; The Jacobins seize power; The Terror begins

Uprising in the Vendée

April 6 – May 30, 1793 - Committee on Public Safety takes control of government

May 31 – June 2, 1793 – The Montagnard Coup d'État

July 13, 1793 – Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat by Charlotte Corday

September 17, 1793 – The Reign of Terror begins

October 16, 1793 – The execution of Marie-Antoinette

1794 – The fury of the Terror, the Cult of the Supreme Being, and the Downfall of Robespierre

March 30, 1794 – The arrest and trial of Danton and Desmoulins

June 8, 1794 – Festival of the Supreme Being; Acceleration of the Terror

July 26–28, 1794 – Arrest and execution of Robespierre; End of the Terror

1795 – The Directory Replaces the Convention

May 20–24, 1795 – Last Paris uprising by the Jacobins andsans-culottes

June 25 – July 27, 1795 – Renewed uprisings in the Vendée and a royalist invasion of Brittany

August 22 – September 23, 1795 – The new Constitution is approved: the Directory takes power

October 5, 1795 – "A whiff of grapeshot": General Bonaparte suppresses a royalist rebellion in Paris

1796 – Napoleon's campaign in Italy; Defeat of the royalists in the Vendée; a failed uprising in Paris

1797 – Bonaparte chases the Austrians from Italy; a republican coup d'état against the royalists in Paris

September 4, 1797 – A republican coup d'état against the royalists

1798 – New republics in Switzerland and Italy; an election annulled; Bonaparte invades Egypt

1799 – France at War in Italy and Germany; Bonaparte returns from Egypt; the Consulate seizes power; End of the Revolution

Conflicts between the Directory and the Legislature (June 1799)

Bonaparte returns to France (October 9, 1799)

The Coup d'État of November 9–10

See also

References

Notes and citations

Bibliography

In French