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The Legislative Assembly is dissolved and replaced by the National Convention.
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The National Convention votes unanimously to abolish the monarchy and declares Year I of the Republic.
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Trial of Louis XVI for treason begins.
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Revolutionary policies are declared law in all territories occupied by French armies.
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Louis XVI is taken to the guillotine and executed.
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The National Convention declares war on Britain and Holland.
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In Paris attacks, shops and rioting occur over the desperate food shortage.
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Surveillance committees are created throughout France to identify suspected enemies or traitors to the nation.
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April 6: The Committee of Public Safety (future executive government in France during the Reign of Terror is established.
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Robespierre recreates the law to restrict property rights and establish society’s duty to achieve the well-being of all citizens.
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Girondins in the National Convention establish a committee, the Commission of Twelve, to investigate anti-government activity.
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Jacobins in the National Convention vote to abolish the Commission of Twelve.
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The National Convention passes the Constitution of Year I, also known as the Constitution of 1793 or the ‘Jacobin Constitution’.
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Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Saint-Just are elected to the Committee of Public Safety.
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Robespierre declares Terror "the order of the day" (official start of the Reign of Terror).
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Marie Antoinette is guillotined, two days after a trial before the Paris Revolutionary Tribunal.
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The 21 Girondist deputies are guillotined.
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Slavery is abolished in all French colonies.
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Robespierre falls and is charged by the Convention. He and his allies are guillotined
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The National Convention is dissolved.
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The Directory takes over the French government.
