1795Convention Abolishes the Revolutionary Tribunal

May 31: The Convention abolishes the Revolutionary Tribunal.
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🔪 First Execution by Revolutionary Tribunal

August 21: First summary judgement by the Revolutionary Tribunal and execution by the guillotine of a royalist, Louis Collenot d'Angremont (fr).
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⚖️ Revolutionary Tribunal Established

March 10: Revolutionary Tribunal established in Paris, with Fouquier-Tinville as the public prosecutor.
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⚖️ Revolutionary Tribunal Begins Trials

April 6: First session of the Revolutionary Tribunal.
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⚖️ Marie-Antoinette Ordered to Face Revolutionary Tribunal

October 3: The Convention orders that Marie-Antoinette be tried by the Revolutionary Tribunal.
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🔪 Girondin Deputies Executed by Revolutionary Tribunal

October 30: The Revolutionary Tribunal sentences the 21 Girondins deputies to death.
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⚖️ Convention Abolishes the Revolutionary Tribunal

May 31: The Convention abolishes the Revolutionary Tribunal.
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