1793 ⟶ Law of Suspects Enacted, Initiating the Reign of Terror
September 17: Convention adopts a new Law of Suspects, permi...
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🔪 Law of Suspects Enacted, Initiating the Reign of Terror
September 17: Convention adopts a new Law of Suspects, permitting the arrest and rapid trial of anyone suspected of opposing the Revolution. Start of Reign of Terror.⟶
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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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🔪 Law of 22 Prairial: Reign of Terror Intensifies
June 10: Law of 22 Prairial - As the prisons are full, the Convention speeds up the trials of those accused. Witnesses are no longer required to testify. From June 11 to July 27, 1,376 prisoners are sentenced to death, with no acquittals, compared with 1251 death sentences in the previous fourteen months. The convention also gives itself the exclusive right to arrest its own members.⟶
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🔪 Mass Execution of Robespierrists
July 29: Arrest and execution of seventy allies of Robespierre within the Paris Commune. In all, 106 Robespierrists are guillotined.⟶
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🕊️ Prisoners Released Under the Law of Suspects
August 5: Inmates of Paris prisons arrested under the Law of Suspects are released.⟶
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⚖️ Trial Begins for Fouquier-Tinville, Architect of the Reign of Terror
March 28: Beginning of the trial of Fouquier-Tinville, the head of the Revolutionary Tribunal, who conducted the trials during the Terror.⟶
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