Federalist revolts in provinces against the Convention
28 May
Insurrectionary Committee formed
29 May–2 June
Overthrow of the Girondins
3 June
Émigrés’ land sold in small lots
5 June
Couthon, Saint-Just and Hérault de Séchelles join the Committee of Public Safety
24 June
Constitution of 1793
13 July
Murder of Marat
17 July
Final abolition of all feudal rights without compensation
27 July
Robespierre joins Committee of Public Safety
28 July
Fall of Valenciennes
14 August
Carnot joins the Committee of Public Safety
23 August
Decree of levée en masse
27 August
Toulon surrenders to Admiral Hood
5 September
Attempted coup by Hébertists
6 September
Billaud-Varenne and Collot d’Herbois join die Committee of Public Safety
1793
17 September
Law of Suspects
29 September
Law of General maximum
7 October
Adoption of Revolutionary Calendar: Year II deemed to have begun on 22 September
9 October
Lyons retaken
10 October
Government declared to be ‘revolutionary until the peace’
16 October
Marie Antoinette executed
31 October
Girondin leaders executed
6 November
Duc d’Orléans executed
8 November
Madame Roland executed
11 November
Bailly executed
29 November
Barnave executed
19 December
English evacuate Toulon
23 December
Vendéens defeated at Savenay
1794
24 March
Execution of Hébertists
2 April
Danton’s trial begins
5 April
Execution of Dantonists
8 June
Festival of the Supreme Being
10 June
Law of 22 Prairial
26 June
Battle of Fleurus
23 July
Maximum des salaries
26 July
Robespierre calls for purge in his last speech in the Convention
27 July
The journée of 9 Thermidor. Arrest of Robespierrists. Abolition of Paris Commune by Convention. Liège and Antwerp captured by Jourdan and Pichegru
28 July
Execution of Robespierre and his followers. Repeal of Law of 22 Prairial.
29 July
Execution of Robespierrists on Paris Commune
30–31 July
Reorganization of Committee of Public Safety
31 July
Maximum des salaries withdrawn
10 August
Reorganization of Revolutionary Tribunal
12 November
Jacobin Club closed
1794
8 December
Return of some surviving Girondins to the Convention
24 December
Maximum abolished
1795
23 January
Amsterdam occupied
17 February
Hoche brings temporary peace to La Vendée
21 February
Decree separating Church and State
5 March
Carnot leaves Committee of Public Safety
1 April
Jourée of 12 Germinal
5 April
Peace with Prussia signed at Basle
16 April
Peace with Holland signed at the Hague
20–23 May
Journées of Prairial
23 May
Parisian sections disarmed
May – June
The White Terror
8 June
Death of Dauphin
24 June
Comte de Provence, self-styled Louis XVIII, issues proclamation from Verona
27 June
Émigrés land at Quiberon Bay
20 July
Émigrés defeated by Hoche.
22 July
Peace with Spain signed
22 August
Convention approves Constitution of the Year III
4–6 October
Journées of Vendémiaire
26 October
Convention is dissolved. Directory is inaugurated
1796
2 March
Bonaparte becomes General of the Army of Italy
28 April
Armistice of Cherasco with Piedmont
10 May
Bonaparte defeats Austrians at Lodi
16 November
Bonaparte’s victory at Arcola
1797
12 May
Democratic republic set up at Venice
27 May
Babeuf executed
15 June
Ligurian republic set up at Genoa
9 July
Cisalpine republic set up at Milan
4 September
Coup d’état of 18 Fructidor
1797
18 October
Peace with Austria secured by Treaty of Campo-Formio
10 December
Bonaparte returns to Paris
1798
15 February
Proclamation of Roman republic
12 April
Proclamation of Helvetian republic
18 May
Bonaparte sails for Egypt
1 August
Battle of the Nile
1799
26 January
Proclamation of Parthenopean Republic at Naples
12 March
War declared on Austria
20 May
Sieyès joins the Directory
15 August
Suvarov defeats Joubert at Novi
26 September
Massena defeats Russians at Zurich
9 October
Bonaparte lands at Fréjus
9 November
Coup d’état of Brumaire
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