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Introduction of the livret ouvrier mandating that workers carry this "notebook" at all times and that his behavior and work performance would be recorded and tracked in it. December 1, 1803

Introduction of the revolutionary calendar. October 5, 1793

Invasion of Italy. April 11, 1796

Invasion of Russia. May 24, 1812

Invasion of Spain. From 1808–1813 there is war in Spain and Portugal. February 27, 1808

It is decided that the Constitution of 1793, the most liberal of all the revolutionary constitutions, will be set aside. A committee is charged with drafting a new constitution. The chief prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal is tried. Conviction and execution follows. March 21, 1795

Jacobin Club closed. November 12, 1794

Jacques Necker, a Swiss citizen and a Protestant, replaces Loménie de Brienne with the title of Director General of Finances; he attempts once again to solve the financial crisis and to devise a plan for a successful meeting of the Estates–General. August 24, 1788

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

Jews in all regions of France are granted full citizenship (those in the Midi had been granted citizenship on 28 January 1790). September 27, 1791