January 2: Creation by the Directory of the Ministry of the Police, under Merlin de Douai.

January 21: Commemoration of the anniversary of Louis XVI's execution.
Director Rewbell gives a speech denouncing the extremism of the left.

January 25: The Directory is given the provisional power to name the administrators of cities.

January 26: The royalist and rebel leader Nicolas Stofflet tries to restart the War in the Vendée.

February 2: Wolfe Tone, leader of the Irish revolutionaries, arrives in France, seeking military support to liberate Ireland.

February 19: The government stops issuing assignats, which have lost most of their value.
Thirty-nine billion (39,000,000,000) are in circulation.

February 20: The United States and Britain extend their treaty of November 19, 1794.
Relations between France and the United States deteriorate.

February 23: The Vendéen rebel and royalist leader Nicolas Stofflet is captured and executed by firing squad in Angers the following day.

February 28: On the orders of the Directory, General Bonaparte closes the extreme leftist Club du Panthéon, founded by a follower of Marat.

March 2: The Directory names General Bonaparte the commander of the Army of Italy.

March 9: Marriage of Napoléon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais, the widow of Alexandre de Beauharnais, a French general and political leader guillotined during the Reign of Terror.

March 18: The Directory replaces the assignat with two billion four hundred million Mandats territoriaux, which can be used to purchase nationalized property.
Within three weeks they lose eighty percent of their value.

March 23: François de Charette, last leader of the royalist rebellion in Vendée, is captured and executed by firing squad in Nantes.

March 30: François-Noël Babeuf, known as "Gracchus Babeuf", the ultra-leftist leader and precursor of Communism, forms an insurrectional committee and movement, called Les Égaux ("the Equals"), to overthrow the government.
They hold a demonstration in Paris on April 6.

April 10: Bonaparte begins his Italian campaign with victories over the Austrians at Montenotte (April 12) and the Sardinians at Millesimo (April 13).

May 2: Babeuf's followers and the remaining Montagnards form a common plan to overthrow the Directory.

May 9: Bonaparte forces an armistice upon the Duke of Parma.

May 10: Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Lodi.

May 15: Treaty signed in Paris between the Directory and king Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia.
The king agrees to cede Savoy and Nice to France.

May 19: In Milan, Bonaparte promises "independence" for Italy.

May 20: The Austrians renounce the armistice along the Rhine, and the war resumes on that front.

June 4: Bonaparte begins the siege of Mantua, the last Italian city held by Austria.

June 5: Bonaparte signs an armistice with the king of Sicily.

June 12: Bonaparte's army enters Romagna, one of the Papal States.

June 22: End of the civil war in the west of France, with the submission of Georges Cadoudal and the departure of Louis de Frotté for England.

June 23: Bonaparte signs the Armistice of Bologna with the Holy See, which permits the French occupation of the northern Papal States.

July 9: The Island of Elba is occupied by the British.

July 10: A new Austrian army under Wurmser arrives in Italy.

July 16: General Kléber captures Frankfurt.

July 18: French army under General Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr captures Stuttgart.

July 20: General Hoche is named head of an army to invade Ireland in support of the Irish independence movement.

August 5: Bonaparte defeats the Austrians under Wurmser at the Battle of Castiglione.
The Austrian army retreats to the Tyrol.

August 19: Treaty of alliance signed between France and Spain at San Ildefonso.

September 8: Bonaparte defeats the Austrians under Wurmser at the Battle of Bassano.

September 9: Failed insurrection at the Grenelle army camp Paris by followers of Gracchus Babeuf, and diehard Montagnards, infiltrated by agents of the police.

October 5: Spain, now allied with France, declares war on Britain.

October 10: The thirty-two leade
January 2: Creation by the Directory of the Ministry of the Police, under Merlin de Douai.
January 21: Commemoration of the anniversary of Louis XVI's execution. Director Rewbell gives a speech denouncing the extremism of the left.
January 25: The Directory is given the provisional power to name the administrators of cities.
January 26: The royalist and rebel leader Nicolas Stofflet tries to restart the War in the Vendée.
February 2: Wolfe Tone, leader of the Irish revolutionaries, arrives in France, seeking military support to liberate Ireland.
February 19: The government stops issuing assignats, which have lost most of their value. Thirty-nine billion (39,000,000,000) are in circulation.
February 20: The United States and Britain extend their treaty of November 19, 1794. Relations between France and the United States deteriorate.
February 23: The Vendéen rebel and royalist leader Nicolas Stofflet is captured and executed by firing squad in Angers the following day.
February 28: On the orders of the Directory, General Bonaparte closes the extreme leftist Club du Panthéon, founded by a follower of Marat.
March 2: The Directory names General Bonaparte the commander of the Army of Italy.
March 9: Marriage of Napoléon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais, the widow of Alexandre de Beauharnais, a French general and political leader guillotined during the Reign of Terror.
March 18: The Directory replaces the assignat with two billion four hundred million Mandats territoriaux, which can be used to purchase nationalized property. Within three weeks they lose eighty percent of their value.
March 23: François de Charette, last leader of the royalist rebellion in Vendée, is captured and executed by firing squad in Nantes.
March 30: François-Noël Babeuf, known as "Gracchus Babeuf", the ultra-leftist leader and precursor of Communism, forms an insurrectional committee and movement, called Les Égaux ("the Equals"), to overthrow the government. They hold a demonstration in Paris on April 6.
April 10: Bonaparte begins his Italian campaign with victories over the Austrians at Montenotte (April 12) and the Sardinians at Millesimo (April 13).
May 2: Babeuf's followers and the remaining Montagnards form a common plan to overthrow the Directory.
May 9: Bonaparte forces an armistice upon the Duke of Parma.
May 10: Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Lodi.
May 15: Treaty signed in Paris between the Directory and king Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia. The king agrees to cede Savoy and Nice to France.
May 19: In Milan, Bonaparte promises "independence" for Italy.
May 20: The Austrians renounce the armistice along the Rhine, and the war resumes on that front.
June 4: Bonaparte begins the siege of Mantua, the last Italian city held by Austria.
June 5: Bonaparte signs an armistice with the king of Sicily.
June 12: Bonaparte's army enters Romagna, one of the Papal States.
June 22: End of the civil war in the west of France, with the submission of Georges Cadoudal and the departure of Louis de Frotté for England.
June 23: Bonaparte signs the Armistice of Bologna with the Holy See, which permits the French occupation of the northern Papal States.
July 9: The Island of Elba is occupied by the British.
July 10: A new Austrian army under Wurmser arrives in Italy.
July 16: General Kléber captures Frankfurt.
July 18: French army under General Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr captures Stuttgart.
July 20: General Hoche is named head of an army to invade Ireland in support of the Irish independence movement.
August 5: Bonaparte defeats the Austrians under Wurmser at the Battle of Castiglione. The Austrian army retreats to the Tyrol.
August 19: Treaty of alliance signed between France and Spain at San Ildefonso.
September 8: Bonaparte defeats the Austrians under Wurmser at the Battle of Bassano.
September 9: Failed insurrection at the Grenelle army camp Paris by followers of Gracchus Babeuf, and diehard Montagnards, infiltrated by agents of the police.
October 5: Spain, now allied with France, declares war on Britain.
October 10: The thirty-two leade
Timeline of the French Revolution