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The National Convention abolishes royalty in France and establishes the first republic
Napoleon is appointed commander of French republican forces besieging royalists, supported by an Anglo-Spanish fleet, in Toulon
Napoleon's soldiers capture Toulon and his artillery fire forces the Anglo-Spanish fleet to withdraw from the harbour
Louis XVI is guillotined after a majority of just one in the national Convention has voted for death without delay
Britain joins other European nations in war against France, mainly in naval engagements in the West Indies and Atlantic
Rebellion breaks out in the Vendée and a peasant army marches against republican Paris
Civil war breaks out in Corsica and Napoleon's family flees to France
25-year-old Charlotte Corday gains access to prominent republican Jean-Paul Marat and stabs him in his bath
France becomes the first nation to attempt national conscription, calling up bachelors between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five
The French Convention adopts imaginative names for the months in their new republican calendar
The Terror begins in republican France, with executions rising to more than 3000 in December
English revolutionary Thomas Paine spends nearly a year in a French prison after opposing the execution of Louis XVI
Robespierre and St Just succeed in sending Danton and his faction to the guillotine in April
French chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier is guillotined for having been involved with tax collection in the ancien régime
Robespierre and his faction go to the guillotine in July, in the final bloodletting of the Terror
The Netherlands, forced by invasion into the French camp, is transformed into the Batavian republic
The 26-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte comes to public attention for his part in saving the Convention in Paris from an assault by rebels
With the Dutch entering the war on the side of the French, Britain seizes their valuable Cape colony in South Africa
Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais, widow of Alexandre de Beauharnais, guillotined in 1794
In the armistice of Cherasco the king of Sardinia cedes to France his territories of Savoy and Nice
After two rapid victories in north Italy, Napoleon marches on Turin and the king of Sardinia asks for an armistice
Napoleon creates in northern Italy the Cisalpine Republic, formed from occupied territores including the papal states of Bologna and Ferrara
Napoleon changes the spelling of his family name from Buonaparte to the more French-seeming Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte takes command of the French army of Italy, with astonishingly successful results
Irish nationalist Wolfe Tone sails from France to invade Ireland with a force of 14,000 French soldiers
