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Singing Rouget de Lisle’s War Hymn of the Army of the Rhine or La Marseillaise, a battalion of National Guards from Marseilles arrives in Paris. Plans are made by a revolutionary committee to proceed toward the overthrow of the king. June 30, 1792

Slave rebellion begins in Saint Domingue. August 22, 1791

Spanish Rebellion begins. May 1808

Start of new White Terror in the Midi. June 24, 1815

Sunday church services are reopened. December 28, 1799

Suppression of the Tribunate to eliminate governmental resistance to Napoleon. August 19, 1807

Surrender of Cadoudal. Royalist insurgency in Western France is apparently pacified. February 14, 1800

Surviving Girondins are reinstated. December 8, 1794

Tennis Court Oath: After being locked out of their meeting room, deputies of the Third Estate assembled on a tennis court and swore not to separate until a constitutional regime was established. June 20, 1789

The Black Code. 1685