The French Revolution - Reign of Terror Timeline
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The French Revolution Timeline - Reign of Terror
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- "Terror is the order of the day"
- We can and WILL use force against citizens if they refuse to follow revolutionary law!
- Reign of Terror 1793-94
- The Reign of Terror began when French lawyer and politician Maximilien Robespierre took control of the Committee of Public Safety and ruled as a dictator.
- Girondin members are rounded up and executed
- Death of a Queen
- I would never harm my own child...
- Terror is nothing other than justice: prompt, severe, inflexible.
- Put on trial for a wide range of charges, many of them exaggerated, the Queen was found guilty and executed.
- Robespierre was a member of the Jacobins - a radical political group. The rival group, the Girondins, became targets during the "Terror".
- Robespierre justifies his authority
- Under a revolutionary regime, it is the state which has to defend itself against all the factions which assail it.
- Robespierre claims that since his "revolutionary regime" is at war, it must "operate in an extraordinary manner".
- Festival of the Supreme Being
- New legislation makes trials for "counterrevolutionaries" even faster!
- Robespierre created his own revolutionary religion based on Greek and Roman models. To "ring in" this new belief system he organized a massive festival, involving a man-made mountain, which he presided over.
- Over 65% of all "counterrevolutionaries" were executed after Robespierre put this new law into effect.
- The Law of the 22nd Prairial
- The Terror Ends
- Charged with "crimes against the Republic". Robespierre is guillotined. The Reign of Terror ends after over 40,000 French citizens are killed.
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- Paris - Moyan_Brenn - (Licence Attribution )
- Supreme Court of the United States - Phil Roeder - (Licence Attribution )
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