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Napoleon is named commander–in–chief of all French forces in Italy. March 2, 1796

Uprising of Vendémiaire: Napoleon is instrumental in putting down a royalist revolt in Paris. October 5, 1795

Constitution of the Year III and Two Thirds Law approved. August 22, 1795

Peace Treaty of Basel concluded with Spain. July 22, 1795

Louis XVII, son of Louis XVI and heir to the throne, dies in the Temple. The declaration of Verona put punishment of the regicides and reestablishment of the orders of society on the agenda for the Bourbon’s return. June 8, 1795

Uprising of Prairial (to May 23): Riots in the sections of Paris. The Convention is also invaded by demonstrators calling for bread and the enforcement of the Constitution of 1793. The army puts down these insurrections. May 20, 1795

Treaty of The Hague, peace with the Netherlands and Prussia. May 16, 1795

Fouquier–Tinville, the chief prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal, is tried. Conviction and execution follow swiftly. March 28, 1795

Freedom of worship officially restored: Separation of Church and State and freedom of religion are decreed. February 21, 1795

Surviving Girondins are reinstated. December 8, 1794

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