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Uprising of Prairial (to May 23): Riots in the sections of Paris. The Convention is also invaded by demonstrators calling for bread and the enforcement of the Constitution of 1793. The army puts down these insurrections. May 20, 1795

Uprising of Vendémiaire: Napoleon is instrumental in putting down a royalist revolt in Paris. October 5, 1795

Venetian Republic occupied by France. May 15, 1797

Victory of General Brune at Casticum, in the eastern Mediterranean against the British and the Russians. October 6, 1799

Victory of Ratisbon against Austria. April 23, 1809

Victory of Wagram over Austria. July 6, 1809

Voltaire’s remains moved to the Pantheon. July 8, 1791

Vote given to women in France. 1944

Waves of dechristianization continue through April. March 1794

With the consent of the king, Necker agrees to the doubling of the Third Estate’s representation at the forthcoming meeting of the Estates–General: the Third Estate will now have as many deputies as the other two orders put together. December 27, 1788