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September 20:National Convention. French Army stops advance of Coalition troops at Valmy. September 21: Abolition of royalty and proclamation of the First French Republic. September 22: First day of the French Revolutionary Calendar (N.B.: calendar introduced in 1793). December 3: Louis XVI brought to trial, appears before the National Convention (11 & 23 December). Robespierre argues that "Louis must die, so that the country may live". December 4 : A Belgian delegation is received at the National Convention to claim independence from Austria. 1793 January 21: Citizen Louis Capet (formerly known as Louis XVI) guillotined. March 7: Outbreak of rebellion against the Revolution: War in the Vendée. March 11: Revolutionary Tribunal established in Paris. April 6: Committee of Public Safety established. May 30: A revolt breaks out in Lyon. June 2: Arrest of Girondist deputies to National Convention by Jacobins. June 10: Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety. June 24: Ratification of new Constitution by National Convention, but not yet proclaimed. Slavery is abolished in France until 1802 (Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte). July 3: Louis XVII of France was carried away from Marie Antoinette and was given to the treatment of a cobbler named Antoine Simon as a demand from the National Convention July 13: Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat by Charlotte Corday. July 17: Charlotte Corday gets guillotined after her trial for murdering Marat July 27: Robespierre elected to Committee of Public Safety. July 28: Convention proscribes 21 Girondist deputies as enemies of France. August 23: Levée en masse (conscription) order. September 5: Start of Reign of Terror. September 9: Establishment of sans-culottes paramilitary forces - revolutionary armies. September 17: Law of Suspects passed. September 22: A new calendar is introduced, denoting September 22, 1792 as being the start of year I. September 29: Convention passes the General Maximum, fixing the prices of many goods and services. October 10: 1793 Constitution put on hold; decree that the government must be "revolutionary until the peace". October 15: Queen Marie Antoinette is impeached and convicted for treachery against the country, and for treason, originally they claimed that Marie had intercourse with her child, it was at this remark she stood up before the jury and told them no mother would do such a thing, and at that the people agreed they had gone too far on accusations. (so satisfied with treason) The Dauphin, and is condemned to be executed in the Place de la Revolution. October 16: Marie Antoinette guillotined. October 21: An anti-clerical law passed, priests and supporters liable to death on sight. October 24: Trial of the 21 Girondist deputies by the Revolutionary Tribunal. October 31: The 21 Girondist deputies guillotined. November 3: Olympe de Gouges, champion of rights for women, guillotined for Girondist sympathies. November 8: Madame Roland guillotined as part of purge of Girondists. November 10: The Cathedral of Notre Dame is re-dedicated to the civic religion of the Cult of Reason. December: First issue of Desmoulins' Le Vieux Cordelier. December 4: Law of 14 Frimaire (Law of Revolutionary Government) passed; power becomes centralised on the Committee of Public Safety. December 23: Anti-Republican forces in the Vendée finally defeated and 6000 prisoners executed. 1794 February: Final 'pacification' of the Vendée - mass killings, scorched earth policy. March 13: Last edition of Jacques Hébert's Le Père Duchesne produced. March 19: Hébert and his supporters arrested. March 24: Hébert and leaders of the Cordeliers guillotined. March 28: Death of philosopher and mathematician Marquis de Condorcet in prison. March 30: Danton, Desmoulins and their supporters arrested. April 5: Danton and Desmoulins guillotined. May 7: National Convention, led by Robespierre, passes decree to establish the Cult of the Supreme Being. May 8: Antoine Lavoisier, chemist, guillotined as traitor. June 8: Festival of the Supreme Being. June 10: Law of 22 Prairial - the Revolutionary Tribunal became a court of condemnation without the need for witnesses. June 26: French forces defeat Austrians at the Battle of Fleurus. July 25: André Chenier, poet, guillotined for conspiring against the Revolution. July 27-28: Night of 9-10 Thermidor - Robespierre arrested, guillotined without trial, along with other members of the Committee of Public Safety. Commune of Paris abolished. End of the Reign of Terror. Also called The Thermidorian Reaction. Latter half of 1794: The White Terror - reaction against remaining Jacobins. November 11: Closure of Jacobin Club. 1795 May 31: Suppression of the Paris Revolutionary Tribunal. July 14: Marseillaise accepted as the French National Anthem. August 22: 1795 Constitution ratified - bicameral system, executive Directory of five. October 5: 13 Vendémiaire - Napoleon's "whiff of grapeshot" quells Paris insurrection. October 26: National Convention dissolved. |
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