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All women are required by the Convention to wear the tricolored ribbon, insignia of the Republic. September 21, 1793

Robespierre, at the Jacobin Club, proposes a new version of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. April 21, 1793

A revolt attempted by the Enragés in Paris fails. March 9, 1793

Royalist and Catholic revolt begins in the Vendée and elsewhere in western France. March 1793

Attacks on shops and food riots occur during a time of great scarcity. Continue through March. February 1793

Members in the English House of Commons urge taking up of arms against France to protect Louis XVI from the Convention. December 21, 1792

Jacques Roux, a radical leader, makes one of several speeches in radical "sections" of Paris. Roux will become the leader of the Enragés, who demanded that the "aristocracy of the rich" as unfavorably as the nobility who had been stripped of their privileges in 1789. Jacques Roux and the Enragés would be attacked by the Girondists and the Jacobins, who both defended a central principle of the French Revolution, the right of property. December 1, 1792

The Convention declares its willingness to help all subjected peoples achieve their liberty. November 19, 1792

Georges Danton, one of the most influential of the revolutionary orators, declares at the Convention that the French Revolution is a revolution against all kings. September 28, 1792

In the West of France, Jean Cottereau, known as Jean Chouan, declares for the King and resists a call for volunteers. The revolt of the Chouans, to be connected to a larger revolt in the West against the Republic, begins. August 15, 1792

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