1789 CE: The Great Fear sweeps across the French countryside, as peasants attack the feudal estates of the nobility.

1789 CE: Fear and paranoia drive Paris mobs to murder royal minister Joseph Foullon and his son-in-law, Berthier de Sauvignay.

1792 CE: The Brunswick Manifesto is issued by a Prussian army, threatening to burn the city of Paris to the ground and punish all traitors.

1792 CE: Between 1,100-1,400 prisoners, or half of Paris' total prison population, are killed in the September Massacres.

1792 CE: The First French Republic is established.

1793 CE: King Louis XVI of France, now known as Citizen Louis Capet, is executed by guillotine.

1793 CE: The Revolutionary Tribunal is established in Paris.

1793 CE: The Committee of Public Safety is set up by the National Convention.

1793 CE: Fall of the Girondins leaves revolutionary politics firmly under Jacobin control; beginning of the Federalist Revolts against Jacobin rule.

1793 CE: French revolutionary activist Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.

1793 CE: Maximilien Robespierre elected to the Committee of Public Safety; the National Convention institutes death penalty for hoarders of goods.

1793 CE: Terror is declared to be "the order of the day".

1793 CE: Enactment of the Law of Suspects, allowing for the arrest and trial of anyone suspected of being counter-revolutionary.

1793 CE: Mass executions of around 2,000 federalist rebels after the end of the Siege of Lyon.

1793 CE: A proposal by Louis-Antoine Saint-Just puts the new constitution on hold; the government shall remain "revolutionary until the peace".

1793 CE: Marie Antoinette is executed by guillotine at the Place de la Révolution.

1793 CE: 21 leading Girondins, including Vergniaud and Brissot, are executed.

1793 CE - 1794 CE: Drownings at Nantes; between 1,100 and 4,000 Vendean rebels and Catholic clerics are drowned in the Loire River by French Republican soldiers.

1793 CE: Executions of the Feuillants.

1793 CE: Cathedral of Notre-Dame is rededicated as the Temple of Reason.

1794 CE: The French Republic's 'infernal columns' wreak havoc, death, and destruction to the rebellious Vendée region; some 50,000 people are slaughtered.

1794 CE: Execution of the Hébertists.

1794 CE: Execution of the Dantonists, including Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, Hérault de Séchelles, & Fabre d'Eglantine.

1794 CE: The esteemed chemist Antoine Lavoisier is executed, alongside 26 other former members of the Farmers-General.

1794 CE: Execution of Madame Elizabeth, sister of King Louis XVI of France.

1794 CE: Festival of the Supreme Being held on the Champ de Mars.

1794 CE: Law of 22 Prairial intensifies the Reign of Terror, accelerating the trial phase and leading to more executions.

1794 CE: Law of 22 Prairial speeds up trials of those accused; beginning of the 'Great Terror'.

1794 CE: Robespierre and his followers are denounced by the National Convention and declared to be outlaws.

1794 CE: Execution of Robespierre, Saint-Just, and Couthon; end to the Terror, beginning of the Thermidorian Reaction.

1794 CE: The Thermidorians repeal the Law of Suspects and the Law of 22 Prairial, removing the justifications of the Reign of Terror.