Key Dates

When was the committee of general security established?

1792

when was the first coalition war

1792

when did the national convention issue a conscription levy of 300,000 soldiers for the first coalition war, and what were the consequemces?

1793, caused the uprising in the vendee

when was the national guard deployed to quell an uprising in Paris and what were the economic causations of the uprising?

1793, printing of assignats, devaluation, naval blockade, and money spent on first coalition war. Also bad harvests meant little bread and sky high prices.

when was the revolutionary tribunal created?

1793, by the Committee of public saftey, in order to begin trying counter revolutionary suspects

When was the law of 19 March passed

1793, it was the precursor to the law of suspects - those captured with royal insignia faced death in 24 hours

When does General Dumouriez defect, and what does it cause?

1793, it causes the girondin purge, direct catalyst, because Marat berates the girondins in his L’Ami du peuple, which leads to his trial, his aquittal, and robespierrre’s call to action.

when were the watch committees and first representatives on mission deployed?

1793

When was the committee of public saftey created and how?

1793 they were given power to issue arrest warrants, appoint commanders and deal with foreign affairs. Initially created in response to the internal and external wars: coalition and vendee. Initially moderate, but quickly became radical after the girondin purge.

When does Robespierre accuse brissot of criminal conspiracy at the national convention

1793

when was marats trial and what was its short term consequence

1793, physical fighting between girondins and jacobins at the convetion

When did 8,000 sans culottes surround the National Convention, and why? economic

1793, because the naval blockade, and war funding caused the economy to plummet. Bread prices were rising, and bread supply was limited, so they wanted the convention to establish the maximum price law.

when was the maximum price law established and who was for/against it?

1793, the paris commune and sans cullotes were pushing for it but the girondins were reluctant.

when was the levee en masse and what is the difference between the levee en masse and the froced conscription of 300,000

both in 1793, but forced conscription was before the girondin purge and created the vendee uprising. The levee en masse was 500,000 men, between the ages of 18-25, and was because of the foreign troops on British soil.

how many girondin deputies are arrested during the purge

29 in 1793.

what was the three day insurrection that ended on the 2nd June 1793?

National guard and sans culottes, 80,000 surround the convention, riled up by marat, and robespierre, demanding for the girondin purge.