1796
• February 19: Assignats abolished.
• February 27: Pantheon Club and other neo-Jacobin groups closed.
• March 2: Napoleon Bonaparte becomes commander in Italy.
• March 30: Babeuf creates an Insurrectionary Committee.
• April 28: French agrees an armistice with Piedmont.
• May 10: Battle of Lodi: Napoleon defeats Austria. Babeuf arrested.
• May 15: Peace of Paris between Piedmont and France.
• August 5: Battle of Castiglione, Napoleon defeats Austria.
• August 19: Treaty of San Ildefonso between France and Spain; the two become allies.
• September 9-19: Grenelle Camp uprising, fails.
• September 22: Start of Year V.
• October 5: The Cispadane Republic is created by Napoleon.
• November 15-18: Battle of Arcole, Napoleon defeats Austria.
• December 15: French expedition to Ireland sails, intended to cause an uprising against England.
1797
• January 6: French expedition to Ireland withdraws.
• January 14: Battle of Rivoli, Napoleon defeats Austria.
• February 4: Coins return to circulation in France.
• February 19: Peace of Tolentino between France and the Pope.
• April 18: Elections of Year V; electors turn against the Directory. Leoben Peace Preliminaries signed between France and Austria.
• May 20: Barthélemy joins the Directory.
• May 27: Babeuf executed.
• June 6: Ligurian Republic proclaimed.
• June 29: Cisalpine Republic created.
• July 25: Clamp down on political clubs.
• August 24: Repeal of laws against clergy.
• September 4: Coup d'état of Fructidor: Directors Barras, La Révellière-Lépeaux and Reubell use military support to overturn election results and strengthen their power.
• September 5: Carnot and Barthélemy are removed from the Directory.
• September 4-5: Start of 'Directorial Terror'.
• September 22: Start of Year VI.
• September 30: Bankruptcy of the Two Thirds reduces national debt.
• October 18: Peace of Campo Formio between Austria and France.
• November 28: Start of Congress of Rastadt to negotiate a general peace.
1798
• January 22: Purge in the Dutch Convention.
• January 28: The free city of Mulhouse is annexed by France.
• January 31: Law on elections allows councils to 'verify' deputies credentials.
• February 15: Proclamation of the Roman Republic.
• March 22: Elections of Year VI. Proclamation of the Helvetic Republic.
• April 26: Geneva is annexed by France.
• May 11: Coup d'état of 22 Floréal, where the Directory alters election results so favoured candidates are elected.
• May 16: Treilhard replaces Neufchâteau as a Director.
• May 19: Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt leaves.
• June 10: Fall of Malta to France.
• July 1: Bonaparte's expedition lands in Egypt.
• August 1: Battle of the Nile: the English destroy the French fleet at Aboukir, compromising Napoleon's war in Egypt.
• August 22: Humbert lands in Ireland but fails to damage the English.
• September 5: The Jourdan Law introduces conscription and calls up 200,000 men.
• September 22: Start of Year VII.
• October 12: Peasants war starts in Belgium, repressed by the French.
• November 25: Rome is captured by Neopolitans.
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Citation And Footnotes:
Title: Timeline of the French Revolution
Author: Robert Wilde
Date: 2007
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