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French
Revolutionary Wars Timeline:
1795
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French Revolutionary Wars
in a Nutshell.
January 11, 1795
The National Convention issues a decree that gives artisan
émigrés (only those ones who "habitually work with their hands") who
had left France after May 1, 1793, amnesty IF they will come back
within two month (by 1 Germinal = March 21, 1795).
January 17, 1795
Pichegru and his men take possession of the Dutch vessels
that are frozen in the ice of the Ijsselmeer.
Capture of the Dutch
Navy by the French Cavalry, January 17, 1795
Prise de la Marine hollandaise
par la cavalerie française sur mer le 17 janvier 1795
Musée Sarret de Grozon
January 19, 1795
Pichegru and his army enter Amsterdam.
February 17, 1795
The Treaty of
La Jaunaye (Traité de La Jaunaye). This peace
treaty is agreed upon between republicans and the royalist rebels.
It is part of the
Wars of the Vendée.
February 21, 1795
Decree to separate religion and state.
March 3, 1795
Creation of the
Army of the Rhine and Moselle (Armée
de Rhin-et-Moselle). Commander:
Pichegru.
March 10, 1795
A French fleet encounters a British fleet, led by Admiral
William Hotham, in the Gulf of Genoa. The French were on their way
to recapture Corsica. The Brits give chase and on March 14, 1795,
two French vessels will be captured.
March 14, 1795
In the Gulf of Genoa, two French vessels are captured by the
British, the Ça Ira and the Censeur.
April 5, 1795
Peace
of Basel, in which
Prussia accepts the Rhine River
as the French eastern border.
France won the
War
of the First Coalition
against Prussia. One ally down,
four more to go.
Here is the
map:
Central
Europe after the Peace of Basel (1795)
and of
Campo Formio (1797)
April 9, 1795
The Treaty of
Mabilais. This peace
treaty is agreed upon between republicans and
the royalist rebels. It is part of the
Wars of the Vendée.
May 7, 1795
Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville (public prosecuter of the
Revolutioanry Tribunal who put Marie-Antoinette, Brissot,
Desmoulins, and Hébert on the guillotine) is
guillotined.
May 16, 1795
The French renamed
the United Provinces of the Netherlands, which
become the
Batavian
Republic.
Treaty of The Hague
(Traité de La Haye).
May 20, 1795
Revolt of 1 Prairial,
year III -
Uprising of the
Sansculottes.
May 31, 1795
The Revolutionary Tribunal is abolished.
June 8, 1795
Louis-Charles dies in
prison at Paris. He was ten years old.
Louis-Charles was the second son of former
King Louis XVI
and
Queen
Marie-Antoinette. His older
brother Louis-Joseph had died on June 4, 1789,
making Louis-Charles the new heir apparent
(dauphin). When his father was executed on
January 21, 1793, Louis-Charles became
Louis XVII,
at least among royalists.
Today, upon the
death of wee Louis-Charles, his uncle
Louis-Stanislas-Xavier
became unofficially
Louis XVIII. Forty-year-old
Louis-Stanislas-Xavier is the younger brother
of the late Louis XVI.
June 27, 1795
Battle
of Quiberon.
French
revolutionaries vs. French
royalists. This battle is part
of the
Wars of
the Vendee.
July 22, 1795
Second
Treaty of Basel. The
Second Peace of Basel is signed between Spain
and France. Catalonia becomes Spanish in
exchange for Spanish possessions on the island
of Hispaniola (today's Haiti and Dominican
Republic), which is now entirely in French
hands.
The
First Treaty of Basel
had been signed on April 5, 1795, between
Prussia and France.
Prussia and Spain
are out of the
War of the First Coalition.
August 22, 1795
Constitution of the year
III (Constitution of 5 Fructidor, Year III).
This constitution splits the legislative power
between the Conseil de Cinq-Cents (Council of
Five Hundred) with 500 representatives and
the Conseil des Anciens (Council of Ancients
/ Elders) with 250 representatives.
The executive head was the Directory with 5
members.
Here is the
list of names for the
Council of Five Hundred including
date of birth/death, and département.
September 5, 1795
French
troops cross the Rhine River
between Duisburg and Dusseldorf.
October 1, 1795
The southern Netherlands and the
principality of Liège are annexed by France.
Here is the map
1792-1795 Eastern
France
October 5, 1795
Royalists run riot in Paris and get crushed by
republican troops, led by
Bonaparte.
October 26, 1795
Last day of the
National Convention.
Tomorrow it will be replaced by the Conseil
des Cinq-Cents (Council of Five Hundred),
which in turn will elect the
Directory.
Napoleon Bonaparte
is the new general of the
Army of the Interior.
October 31, 1795
The Conseil des Cinq-Cents elects the members of the
Directory.
December 26, 1795
The Army of the West, the Army of the Coasts of Brest, and
the Army of the Coasts of Cherbourg merge and
become the
Army of the Coasts of the
Ocean under
General Hoche.
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