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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. August 6, 1805

Distribution of communal land except for forest land. Sale of émigrés’ properties. August 14, 1792

Edict grants toleration to Protestants. November 19, 1787

Election of representatives to the Estates–General. One of the traditions of the Estates–General was to request cahiers de doléances or lists of grievances from the realm. In accordance with this tradition, the drawing up of the cahiers had been officially decreed on 24 January. (The cahiers number in the thousands and constitute one of our richest sources of historical information about late eighteenth–century France.) February 1789

Election of Sieyès to the Directory. May 16, 1799

Election of the Directors. October 31, 1795

Elections for new ’third’ in the legislative Councils begin. March 1797

Elections for the Councils begin, continue into May. April 1798

Elections of Year V. April 18, 1797

Elections to the legislative Councils. October 21, 1795