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Event
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July 27, 1793 |
French Revolution: Robespierre elected to the Committee of Public Safety. |
*French Revolution |
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Aug 10, 1793 |
French Revolution: Festival of Republican Reunion; Montagnards (radical Jacobins) and sans-culottes (more of a working-class group than a political party) celebrate their collective victory over the king in 1792 and over the Girondins now. |
*French Revolution |
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Sept 5, 1793 |
French Revolution: uprising in Paris; institution of "Terror" as "the order of the day" in the National Convention. |
*French Revolution |
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Sept 17, 1793 |
French Revolution: "The Law of Suspects"; Hébertists push through a law mandating incarceration of suspected traitors to the new regime. |
*French Revolution |
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Oct 5, 1793 |
French Revolution: adoption of the revolutionary calendar. |
*French Revolution |
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Oct 16, 1793 |
French Revolution: Execution of Marie-Antoinette. |
*French Revolution |
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Dec 1793 - Nov 1794 |
Paine imprisoned in France. He was not guillotined because not a French citizen. |
*French Revolution |
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1794 |
The French Convention abolishes slavery in the French colonies. France conquers Holland. |
*France
*Abolition
*French Revolution |
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Mar 1794 - Apr 1794 |
French Revolution: Arrest and execution of Hébertists and Dantonists; Danton arrested and after a show trial beheaded. |
*French Revolution |
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June 10, 1794 |
French Revolution: Law passed dispensing with defense lawyers and witnesses. |
*French Revolution |
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July 27, 1794 |
French Revolution: "The Ninth of Thermidor": arrest of Robespierre, Saint-Juste, and Robespierre's other followers (executed 28-29 July); beginning of the Thermidorian reaction. |
*French Revolution |
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July 29, 1794 |
French Revolution: Robespierre executed without trial; the Great Terror ends. From 17 July 1793 to this date, 1,400 Parisians executed. |
*French Revolution |
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1795 |
French Revolution: Peace treaties with Prussia, Holland, and Spain; General Napoleon, working under the Directory government, represses a royalist uprising. |
*Spain
*French Revolution
*France |
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1795 |
Commons again defeats abolition. British slave islands are attacked by French revolutionary forces. |
*Abolition
*French Revolution |
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Jan 13, 1795 |
French Revolution: Abolition of the Maximum (of price controls on grain) and the disappearance of the coercive apparatus of the Terror; the government is unable to ensure food supply from rural areas; Parisians close to starvation. |
*French Revolution |
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Mar 8, 1795 |
French Revolution: The proscribed Girondists are admitted back into the Convention. |
*French Revolution |
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Apr 1, 1795 |
French Revolution: the uprising of 12 Germinal. |
*French Revolution |
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May 1795 - June 1795 |
French Revolution: "White Terror" in south France against the former Terrorists. |
*French Revolution |
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May 20, 1795 - May 23, 1795 |
French Revolution: the insurrection of 1-4 Prairial; the arrest of 41 Montagnards (radical jacobins) in the Convention. |
*French Revolution |
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June 17, 1795 |
French Revolution: Montagnard deputies commit suicide on the way to the guillotine. |
*French Revolution |
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Oct 26, 1795 |
French Revolution: Directory Government elected in France which, over the next few years, will prove incompetent, corrupt, and unstable. |
*French Revolution |
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1796 |
Wolfe Tone arrives in France. |
*Ireland
*French Revolution |
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1796 |
Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian victories. |
*French Revolution |
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Dec 1796 |
Failed attempt by French (with Wolfe Tone) to invade Ireland at Bantry Bay, West Cork. |
*French Revolution
*Ireland |
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Sept 4, 1797 |
France: Coup of 18 Fructidor, Year V, vs. royalists. |
*French Revolution |