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The Constitution of 1791 is proclaimed. September 3, 1791

The Constitution of the Year VIII (the fourth since 1791) is submitted for approval in a plebiscite. This constitution is not preceded by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. In a preface announcing the new constitution the following is declared: "Citoyens, la Revolution est fixee aux principes qui Pont commencee: elle est finie." [Citizens, the Revolution is established upon its founding principles: the Revolution is over.] December 15, 1799

The Abbé Grégoire submits his report on the necessity of eliminating regional dialects and patois in order to establish French as the national language. June 4, 1794

The alleged Conspiracy of the Equals organized by Gracchus Babeuf. The goal is a coup d’état and the end of the Directory in order to set a communist government in its place. March 30, 1796

The American and British governments sign a treaty in London agreeing to blockade French shores, despite a treaty of Franco–American alliance signed in 1778. November 19, 1794

The arrest of Danton and the Dantonists ordered by the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security. March 29, 1794

The Assembly issues treasury notes called assignats based on the value of nationalized church property. The first issue is of four hundred million. December 19, 1789

The assembly of the three orders of Dauphiné at Vizille. July 21, 1788

The Bank of France is created. February 13, 1800

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