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Napoleon is named commander–in–chief of all armies within the boundaries of France. October 26, 1795

The Chouans join 4,000 émigrés landed at Quiberon on the shores of Brittany by an English fleet. Defeated by General Hoche on July 21st. June 26, 1795

A new Constitution is reported on by Boissy d’Anglas. It is accompanied by the assertion that those most worthy of governing are those who own property. June 23, 1795

The so–called White Terror had been developing throughout April, since the first decree on April 10 calling for the disarming of all "terrorists," or supporters of Robespierre. In Lyons, many Jacobin prisoners are massacred. Many murders of former terrorists by royalists continue through June. April 24, 1795

It is decided that the Constitution of 1793, the most liberal of all the revolutionary constitutions, will be set aside. A committee is charged with drafting a new constitution. The chief prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal is tried. Conviction and execution follows. March 21, 1795

The American and British governments sign a treaty in London agreeing to blockade French shores, despite a treaty of Franco–American alliance signed in 1778. November 19, 1794

Gracchus Babeuf publishes the first issue of his newspaper, Le tribun du peuple, devoted to explaining the principles of an ideal agrarian communist society. October 5, 1794

The Abbé Grégoire submits his report on the necessity of eliminating regional dialects and patois in order to establish French as the national language. June 4, 1794

The arrest of Danton and the Dantonists ordered by the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security. March 29, 1794

Robespierre reports on the principles of political morality that should be respected by the Convention, in which he declares that the revolutionary government is based on both virtue and terror ". . . virtue without which terror is evil, terror without which virtue is powerless" February 5, 1794

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