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| 1793 |
| | | Britain joins other European nations in war against France, mainly in naval engagements in the West Indies and Atlantic | |
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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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| 1793 |
| | | Napoleon is appointed commander of French republican forces besieging royalists, supported by an Anglo-Spanish fleet, in Toulon | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Napoleon's soldiers capture Toulon and his artillery fire forces the Anglo-Spanish fleet to withdraw from the harbour | |
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| 1795 |
| | | The Netherlands, forced by invasion into the French camp, is transformed into the Batavian republic | |
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| 1795 |
| | | The 26-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte comes to public attention for his part in saving the Convention in Paris from an assault by rebels | |
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| 1795 |
| | | With the Dutch entering the war on the side of the French, Britain seizes their valuable Cape colony in South Africa | |
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| 1796 |
| | | In the armistice of Cherasco the king of Sardinia cedes to France his territories of Savoy and Nice | |
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| 1796 |
| | | Napoleon Bonaparte takes command of the French army of Italy, with astonishingly successful results | |
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| 1796 |
| | | After two rapid victories in north Italy, Napoleon marches on Turin and the king of Sardinia asks for an armistice | |
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