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| 1792 |
| | | Thomas Paine moves hurriedly to France, to escape a charge of treason in England for opinions expressed in his Rights of Man | |
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| 1792 |
| | | A French revolutionary army defeats the Austrians and Prussians at Valmy, and thus saves Paris from attack | |
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| 1792 |
| | | After their success at Valmy, French republican armies overrun much of the Austrian Netherlands | |
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| 1792 |
| | | During four September days, thugs are encouraged to massacre some 1400 aristocrats and priests held in Paris prisons | |
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| 1792 |
| | | The National Convention abolishes royalty in France and establishes the first republic | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Louis XVI is guillotined after a majority of just one in the national Convention has voted for death without delay | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Rebellion breaks out in the Vendée and a peasant army marches against republican Paris | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Corsica and Napoleon's family flees to France | |
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| 1793 |
| | | 25-year-old Charlotte Corday gains access to prominent republican Jean-Paul Marat and stabs him in his bath | |
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| 1793 |
| | | France becomes the first nation to attempt national conscription, calling up bachelors between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five | |
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