1793

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  • Louis XVI executed

  • France declares war on Great Britain and the Dutch Republic

  • levée of 300,000 men to defend Republic

  • Representatives on Mission established

  • Revolutionary Tribunal established

  • Vendée region revolts

  • Committee of Surveillance established

  • Committee of Public Safety established

  • Period: to

    Sans-culottes and National Guard in conjunction with Jacobins expel the Girondins from the Convention

  • Constitution of 1793 approved

  • Jean-Paul Marat assassinated by Charlotte Corday

  • Maximilien Robespierre elected to Committee of Public Safety

  • Convention implements 'scorched earth' policy in Vendée region

  • Decree of levée en masse: mass conscription of entire population

  • Day of the Enragés; Government by terror begins

  • Constitution of 1793 suspended - government 'revolutionary until the peace'

  • Marie Antoinette executed, followed by deaths of the 21 Girondin leaders (31 Oct), Olympe de Gouges (3 Nov), Philippe Égalité (7 Nov), Madame Roland (8 Nov), Bailly (12 Nov) and Barnave (29 Nov)

  • De-Christianisation campaign begins

  • Law of 14 Frimaire enacted