1790 CE: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed, making the French Catholic Church subordinate to the French government.

1793 CE: The French Republic calls for 300,000 new soldiers to be raised, by conscription if necessary, prompting revolt across the nation.

1793 CE: The War in the Vendée expands, as the rebel Royal and Catholic Army controls most of the Vendée region; a Grand Council of Vendée recognizes Louis XVII as France's king.

1793 CE: First Massacre of Machecoul; over 500 Republic-sympathizing citizens are murdered by angry Vendean peasants; the War in the Vendée begins.

1793 CE: The Battle of Nantes. The Vendean Catholic and Royal Army is defeated by the French Republic; General Cathelineau is mortally wounded.

1793 CE: French revolutionary leader Bertrand Barère calls for the complete destruction of the rebellious Vendée region.

1793 CE: The march of the surviving Vendean rebels, known as the Northwind Turn ends in failure, and the destruction of the Catholic and Royal Army at the Battle of Savenay.

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.

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: Vendean rebel general Henri de la Rochejaquelein is killed while on a reconnaissance mission, aged 21.

1796 CE: François de Charette, one of the last remaining leaders of the Vendée rebellion, is executed by firing squad, bringing the War in the Vendée to an end.