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Elections of Year V. April 18, 1797

Democratic republic established by the Venetians. May 12, 1797

Venetian Republic occupied by France. May 15, 1797

Gracchus Babeuf is guillotined. May 27, 1797

Ligurian republic set up at Genoa by France. June 15, 1797

Cisalpine republic set up at Milan by France. July 9, 1797

The beginnings of the independence movement in Saint Domingue, present–day Haiti, led by Toussaint L’Ouverture. August 22, 1797

Liquidation of the public debt by two–thirds with a system of coupons that, by the end of the December, in effect, simply invalidates two–thirds of what is owed to various public creditors. September 1797

A group of moderate and rightist delegates to the legislative Councils of the Five Hundred and of the Elders, members of the political club of Clichy, plan a coup d’état against the Directory. September 2, 1797

Coup d’état of Fructidor. Ardent republicans expel moderates and neo–royalists from the Executive Directory and the two legislative councils. September 4, 1797