1793 ⟶ Charlotte Corday Executed for Marat's Assassination

July 17: Charlotte Corday is tried and sentenced to death by...
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🔪 Charlotte Corday Executed for Marat's Assassination

July 17: Charlotte Corday is tried and sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal for murdering Marat. She is guillotined after her trial.⟶
French RevolutionAssassinationGuillotineJacobinsReign of TerrorPolitical ViolenceJusticeTrialsExecutions

⚖️ Revolutionary Tribunal Begins Trials

April 6: First session of the Revolutionary Tribunal.⟶
French RevolutionTribunalJusticeTrialsGuillotineReign of TerrorExecutionPolitical ViolenceLegal System

🔪 Charlotte Corday Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat

July 13: Charlotte Corday assassinates Jean-Paul Marat in his bath. At her trial, she declares, "I killed one man to save a hundred thousand."⟶
Charlotte Corday Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat (1793)
AssassinationFrench RevolutionRadicalismViolencePolitical ViolenceMaratCordayReign of TerrorAtrocity

🔪 Girondin Deputies Executed by Revolutionary Tribunal

October 30: The Revolutionary Tribunal sentences the 21 Girondins deputies to death.⟶
French RevolutionReign of TerrorGirondinsGuillotineExecutionsPolitical ViolenceRevolutionary TribunalJacobinsPolitical Purges

🔪 Carrier Executed for Mass Killings in the Vendée

December 16: Conviction and execution of the Jacobin Carrier for ordering the mass execution of as many as 10.000 prisoners in the Vendée⟶
Carrier Executed for Mass Killings in the Vendée (1794)
French RevolutionReign of TerrorVendée UprisingMass ExecutionsWar CrimesJacobinsGuillotineAtrocityPolitical ViolenceJustice

🔪 Fouquier-Tinville and Tribunal Jurors Executed

May 7: The former chief prosecutor, Fouquier-Tinville, and the fourteen jurors of the Revolutionary Tribunal are condemned to death and guillotined.⟶
Fouquier-Tinville and Tribunal Jurors Executed (1795)
Reign of TerrorGuillotineExecutionsRevolutionary TribunalFouquier-TinvilleJusticePost-TerrorPurgeFrench Revolution