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6 May 1758: Birth of Robespierre in Arras.

8 November 1781: Robespierre becomes a lawyer.

8 August 1788: Robespierre publishes his first political text: A la nation artésienne on the necessity of reform in the Estates of Artois.

1789

26 April: Robespierre elected as deputy of the Third Estate of Artois.

May – June: Robespierre joins the ‘Breton Club’, later known as the ‘Jacobin Club’.

9 July: The Assembly proclaims itself the National Constituent Assembly.

14 July: Storming of the Bastille.

1790

31 March: Robespierre elected as President of the Jacobin Club for one month.

1791

17 July: Repression of the democratic movement on the Champ-de-Mars.

1 October: Opening of the Legislative Assembly.

1792

10 August: Overthrow of the monarchy and formation of the Insurrectionary Commune in Paris, of which Robespierre is a member.

2–6 September: Massacres in the prisons of Paris.

6 September: Robespierre elected deputy for Paris in the Convention.

20 September: Victory for the Republic at the Battle of Valmy.

21 September: Opening of the Convention. Beginning of the First Republic.

1793

21 January: Execution of Louis XVI.

10 March: Creation of the Revolutionary Tribunal.

31 May–2 June: Fall of the Girondins.

23–24 June: Passing of the Constitution.

27 July: Robespierre enters the Committee of Public Safety.

September: ‘Terrorist’ measures put on the agenda on 5 September 1793. Law of Suspects (17 September), the general maximum on prices and wages (29 September).

10 October: Government proclaimed ‘revolutionary until peacetime’.

18 November (27 Brumaire Year II): Report presented by Billaud-Varenne on the functioning of the Revolutionary Government.

1794

4 February (16 Pluviôse Year II): Abolition of slavery in the French colonies.

26 February–3 March (8 and 13 Ventôse Year II): Saint-Just’s Ventôse decrees.

14–24 March (24 Ventôse–4 Germinal): Trial and execution of the Cordeliers.

30 March–5 April (10–16 Germinal): Trial and execution of the ‘Indulgents’.

8 June (20 Prairial): Festival of the Supreme Being.

10 June (22 Prairial): Law of the ‘Great Terror’.

3 July (15 Messidor): Robespierre’s last appearance at the Committee of Public Safety before Thermidor.

27 July 1794 (9 Thermidor Year II): Convention decrees the arrest of the Robespierrists after refusing Robespierre and Saint-Just the right to speak.

28 July 1794 (10 Thermidor Year II): Execution of the Robespierrists.