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July 1792 |
French Revolution: Girondins (moderates, advocating a constitutional monarchy) under attack from Jacobins (radicals, advocating a Republic). |
*French Revolution |
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Aug 1792 |
French Revolution: Lafayette, leader of the French National Guard, deserts; he flees to Austria after failing to control the Jacobins. |
*French Revolution |
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Aug 1792 - Sept 1792 |
French Revolution: The Commune of Paris (six ministers including Danton) tries to fend off invasion and organize elections. |
*French Revolution |
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Aug 10, 1792 |
French Revolution: Insurrection in Paris; attack on the Tuileries Palace leading to the suspension of the King's powers, the imprisonment of the royal family, and the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly; the monarchy is overthrown. |
*French Revolution |
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Aug 20, 1792 |
French Revolution: The Coalition Armies (Austrian, Prussian, and French royalist troops) attack France. |
*French Revolution |
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Sept 2, 1792 - Sept 6, 1792 |
French Revolution: The "September Massacres"; also called "the uprising of the Paris Commune": 12,000 political prisoners murdered following the news of the fall of Verdun. (These prisoners were ordinary criminals, priests, aristocrats, counter-revolutionaries, and servants of these people.) |
*French Revolution |
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Sept 13, 1792 |
Thomas Paine flees to France. |
*French Revolution |
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Sept 20, 1792 |
French Revolution: The French win a major battle at Valmy; Coalition army retreats to the Rhine. |
*French Revolution |
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Sept 21, 1792 |
French Revolution: Newly elected National Convention abolishes the monarchy; France declared a Republic. |
*French Revolution |
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Sept 21, 1792 |
London Corresponding Society's "Joint Address to the French National Convention." |
*French Revolution |
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Oct 29, 1792 |
France Revolution: Louvet denounces Robespierre all alone. |
*French Revolution |
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Nov 1792 |
French Revolution: France calls on other nations to revolt, pledging her assistance and fraternity. |
*French Revolution |
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Dec 1792 |
French Revolution: Louis XVI tried for treason. |
*French Revolution |
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1793 |
The Terror: Terrorism in France, Alarmism in England as French Revolution intensifies. |
*French Revolution |
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1793 |
French Revolution: internal factionalizing of the revolutionary movement (inciting the Terror), uprisings, and counter-revolutionary revolts. Girondins fall to the militaristic Jacobin faction headed by Jean-Paul Marat, Georges Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, the last two soon to become opponents. Feudal rights abolished without compensation to former aristocracy (aristocrats, like the clergy before them, lose their property). |
*French Revolution |
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1793 |
Mary Wollstonecraft, "Letter on the Present Character of the French Nation," not published during her lifetime. (It expresses some doubt in the revolutionaries.) |
*French Revolution |
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Jan 21, 1793 |
French Revolution: Execution of Louis XVI. |
*French Revolution |
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Jan 27, 1793 - Feb 7, 1793 |
French Revolution: Formal mourning of the British Court for Louis XVI's death. |
*French Revolution |
| Details |
Feb 1, 1793 |
French Revolution: France declares war on Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, and Spain. |
*French Revolution
*Spain |
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Feb 11, 1793 |
French Revolution: England declares war on France. |
*French Revolution |
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Mar 10, 1793 |
French Revolution: Establishment of the Revolutionary Tribunal (according to some accounts, the unofficial beginning of the Terror; between March 1793 and July 1794, 17,000 people were executed in France). |
*French Revolution |
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Mar 11, 1793 |
French Revolution: Revolt of La Vendée (really the beginning of Civil War in France): an uprising of French royalists vs. the Republican government. |
*French Revolution |
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May 31, 1793 - June 2, 1793 |
French Revolution: Insurrection leading to arrest of the Girondins in the 1793 National Convention. |
*French Revolution |
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July 13, 1793 |
French Revolution: Jean-Paul Marat murdered in his bathtub by a knife-wielding Charlotte Corday (see 17 July). |
*French Revolution |
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July 17, 1793 |
French Revolution: Execution of Charlotte Corday (who assassinated the revolutionary journalist Jean-Paul Marat) officially begins the Terror. |
*French Revolution |
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