1790 ⟶ Marat Calls for Mass Execution of Aristocrats
July 26: Marat publishes a demand for the immediate executio...
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🔪 Marat Calls for Mass Execution of Aristocrats
July 26: Marat publishes a demand for the immediate execution of five to six hundred aristocrats to save the Revolution.⟶
French RevolutionMaratReign of TerrorViolenceRadicalismExecutionPolitical ViolenceAristocracyJacobinsRevolutionary Press
🔪 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."⟶
AssassinationFrench RevolutionRadicalismViolencePolitical ViolenceMaratCordayReign of TerrorAtrocity
🔪 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
🔪 Execution of Philippe Égalité
November 7: Philippe Égalité is guillotined.⟶
French RevolutionGuillotineExecutionPolitical PurgeÉgalitéTerrorJacobinsAristocracyViolenceRepression
🔪 Execution of Princess Marie Thérèse de Choiseul
July 27: Marie Thérèse de Choiseul, the princess of Monaco is executed. Her execution would be one of the last during the Reign of Terror.⟶
French RevolutionReign of TerrorExecutionAristocracyGuillotinePolitical ViolenceAtrocityMonacoLast Executions
🔪 Mass Execution of Robespierrists
July 29: Arrest and execution of seventy allies of Robespierre within the Paris Commune. In all, 106 Robespierrists are guillotined.⟶
French RevolutionReign of TerrorGuillotineExecutionRobespierreParis CommunePolitical PurgeAtrocityViolence