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General Maximum introduced. September 29, 1793

Passage of the Law of Suspects. September 17, 1793

French victory at Hondschoote over an English–Hanoverian army. September 8, 1793

Charlotte Corday assassinates Marat. July 13, 1793

Constitution of 1793 is accepted by the Convention to be voted on in a national referendum. June 24, 1793

First Maximum decreed. May 4, 1793

"Federalist" uprising begins. April 29, 1793

Marat is arrested but almost immediately liberated by the Revolutionary Tribunal, an event which further intensifies the antagonism between the Girondins and Jacobins. April 23, 1793

Committee of Public Safety created by the Convention, attempting to deal with the radical movements of the Enragés, food shortages and riots, the revolt in the Vendée and in Brittany, recent defeats of its armies, and the desertion of its commanding general. This committee is charged with carrying out a policy of "terrorizing" all of France’s enemies within and without. April 6, 1793

General Dumouriez, the hero of Valmy, deserts to the Austrians. After several important defeats, General Dumouriez had proclaimed the Convention primarily responsible for them. Like Lafayette before him, Dumouriez had also attempted to urge his army to march with him upon Paris, where he would dissolve the Convention, but the army refused. After being summoned to Paris, Dumouriez flees to the enemy. This treason would bring in its path great suspicion of his allies in the Convention, the Girondins. April 5, 1793

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