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1790 CE
1794 CE: Execution of Robespierre, Saint-Just, and Couthon; end to the Terror, beginning of the Thermidorian Reaction.
1794 CE: In Paris, 70 officials of the Paris Commune who had remained loyal to Robespierre are executed.
1794 CE: The Thermidorians repeal the Law of Suspects and the Law of 22 Prairial, removing the justifications of the Reign of Terror.
1794 CE: The Jacobin Club in Paris is attacked by muscadins; in response the National Convention orders it to be permanently closed and outlawed.
1794 CE: Jacobin Jean-Baptiste Carrier is executed after a highly publicized trial.
1795 CE: The Thermidorians reestablish freedom of worship in the French Revolution, officially ending the revolutionary Constitutional Church.
1795 CE: The Insurrection of 12 Germinal, Year III against the Thermidorian regime fails.
1795 CE: The First White Terror sees the arrests of 90,000 Jacobins; 2,000 are slaughtered by lynch mobs or in prison massacres.
1795 CE: The failed Uprising of 1 Prairial sees the last serious attempt by the Jacobins and sans-culottes to regain power in the French Revolution.
1795 CE: The French Directory is inaugurated.