1795-96

  • Period: to

    White Terror in the south of France

  • Amsterdam occupied

  • Pacification of Lajaunye in Vendée

  • Freedom of worship restored

  • Arrest of Barère, Billaud-Varenne, Collot d´Herbois

    ppl of the CPS
  • Fouquier-Tinville sent for trial

    was a French lawyer and the public prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal
  • Uprising of Germinal

    The insurrection of 12 Germinal Year III was a popular revolt in Paris on 1 April 1795 against the policies of the Thermidorian Convention. It was provoked by poverty and hunger resulting from the abandonment of the controlled economy (the Maximum being abolished). 10,000 unarmed protestors stormed the Convention and demanded bread and the release of the Montagnards Collot, Barère and Billaud. Loyal National Guards ended the protest and the Convention then deported the deputies to Guiana.
  • Decree on weights and measures

  • Disarmament of 'terrorists'

  • Peace with chouans

    Peace was concluded with the chouans at Prévalaye.
  • Prison massacre at Lyons

  • Fouquier-Tinville executed

  • Treaty with Batavian Republic

    Treaty of The Hague.
  • Period: to

    Uprising of Prairial

  • Revolutionary Tribunal abolished

  • Death of Louis XVII

  • Declaration of Verona

    Louis XVIII's attempt to introduce the French people to his politics.
  • Royalists landed at Quiberon

  • Quiberon invasion defeated

  • Treaty of Basle concluded with Spain

  • Constitution of the Year III

    Two Thirds decree approved. That two-thirds of its deputies must sit by right in the new legislature regardless of voting in the départements. Added the council of 500 and council of Ancients
  • Annexation of Belgium

  • Uprising of Vendémiaire

    Bonarparte appointed commander of the Army of the Interior
  • Pantheon Club opened

    It was composed of former terrorists and unconditional Jacobins coming from the petite bourgeoisie.
  • End of the Convention

  • Directory established

  • Forced loan