1795 in History

Napoleon helped suppress the royalist uprising against the Convention after Barras called on him to support the defence of Paris.

After Vendemiaire, Barras supported Bonaparte's appointment as commander of the Army of the Interior.

Barras publicly attacked returning emigres as Thermidorian politics moved against royalist influence before the establishment of the Directory.

Appointed Commander of the Army of the Interior, for saving the Tuileries Palace

Appointed Commander of the Army of the Interior

Napoleon became commander in chief of the Army of the Interior after his role in defeating the Vendemiaire uprising.

After the Vendemiaire uprising, Tallien joined a five-member commission charged with proposing additional measures for public security.

Sieyes entered the Committee of Public Safety during the final phase of the Convention and participated in post-Thermidor government.

Sieyes proposed a constitutional jury intended to protect the operation of the Constitution of Year III, but the proposal was rejected.

Jourdan led a successful crossing of the Rhine during operations by the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse.

The Convention appointed Barras commander in chief to organise its defence against the approaching royalist insurrection.

Appointed Head of the Directory

Appointed Head of the Directory

Sets out on 1st voyage of discovery to Africa

Dismissed from list of Generals for not joining Hoches Army at Brest

Carnot was elected to the Council of Ancients as the new constitutional system replaced the National Convention.

La Revelliere-Lepeaux was elected to the Council of Ancients as the constitutional institutions of the Directory replaced the Convention.

Nineteen departments elected Sieyes to the Council of Five Hundred, and he chose to represent Sarthe.

Tallien was elected to the Council of Five Hundred by several departments and continued his legislative career under the Directory.

Barras was elected one of the five members of the new Executive Directory under the Constitution of Year III.

Carnot joined the five-member Executive Directory and took responsibility for major military affairs.

La Revelliere-Lepeaux was elected to the Executive Directory with an overwhelming vote in the Council of Ancients.

The Jacobin leader in Hungary is executed

Appointed General of the Division, provisional

Appointed General of the Division, provisional

The Germinal rising shows continuing popular anger after the Thermidorian settlement

Carnot became a member of the newly organised Institut de France, reflecting his standing as both a scientist and revolutionary administrator.

Nelson's capture of Censeur helps frustrate the French Corsican operation.

The French fleet abandons its plan to invade Corsica and returns to port.

Sieyes helped advance a law of general police as the Convention tried to stabilise government after the Terror.

Barras took up residence at the Luxembourg Palace as the Executive Directory began operating under the new constitution.

Marries Caroline of Brunswick at the Chapel Royal, St James

Carnot assumed a leading role in directing military policy for the new Directory.

Tallien was sent to the Army of the West during the continuing struggle against royalist and counter-revolutionary forces.

Marches his forces into Amsterdam

Marches his forces into Warsaw having crushed the Kosciuszko revolt

Carnot worked with Jourdan on operational planning as the Directory prepared renewed campaigns against Coalition armies.

Carnot criticised the Constitution of Year III, particularly its bicameral legislature and the proposed organisation of executive power.

Closes the Pantheon down when it protests about the arrest of Babeufs wife

Russia, Austria and Prussia hold a convention in Petersburg to finalize the 3rd division of the Polishn Republic

Poland is partitioned by Russia, Prussia & Austria & resigns the throne

The Prairial uprising is suppressed and the remaining power of the Paris sans culottes is broken

Carnot was promoted to chef de bataillon while continuing his political and military work during the final months of the Convention.

Tallien observed operations connected with the defeat of the royalist expedition at Quiberon and supported severe measures against captured participants.

Defends the Convention & fires on the people, commanded by Barras

Uses a "whiff of grapeshot" on the "day of the sections" to drive out the Parisian mob

Suppresses a Royalist uprising in Paris

Sieyes refused to become a member of the Executive Directory after the new constitutional government was established.

Sieyes declined the opportunity to direct the Ministry of Foreign Relations under the Directory.

Sieyes helped secure the reinstatement of deputies previously arrested as associates of the Girondins.

Tallien returned to the Committee of Public Safety as Thermidorian leaders confronted renewed unrest in Paris.

Russia, Austria and Prussia hold a convention in Petersburg to finalize the 3rd division of the Polishn Republic

Under the Treaty of Basle, gives up Prussian territories west of the Rhine to France

Recaptures Mannheim from the French

Barras directed the Convention's defence during the Vendemiaire uprising and employed Napoleon Bonaparte in the military response.

Frederick William II withdraws from the War of the First Coalition

Under the Treaty of Basle, gives up Prussian territories west of the Rhine to France

Sieyes signed the peace treaty concluded at The Hague between France and the Batavian Republic.

Appointed Under Secretary at the Foreign Office

Birth of Henry Havelock

Death of Ignav Martinovics, executed

Damaged French ships are forced to surrender after the Battle of Genoa.

Nelson takes possession of Censeur as the French abandon their Corsica invasion plan.

Fights in the naval action known as the Battle of Genoa.

Takes part in the Battle of the Hyeres Islands.

Fights at the Battle of Loana in Italy

Andre Massena fought in the French victory at Loano as the Army of Italy broke Austrian and Sardinian positions on the Ligurian coast.

Massenas 1st military victory