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The term "Year One" in political history usually refers to the institution of radical, revolutionary change. This usage dates from the time of the French Revolution . After the official abolition of the French monarchy on 21 September 1792, the National Convention instituted the new French Revolutionary Calendar .
The French Revolution (French: Révolution française [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
February 1: French citizens are required to have a passport to travel in the interior of the country. February 7: Austria and Prussia sign in Berlin a military convention to invade France and defend the monarchy. February 9: The Assembly decrees the confiscation of the property of émigrés, for the benefit of the Nation.
French Republican Calendar of 1794, drawn by Philibert-Louis Debucourt. The French Republican calendar (French: calendrier républicain français), also commonly called the French Revolutionary calendar (calendrier révolutionnaire français), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and ...
The revolutionary government prepared a full mobilization of the nation (see Levée en masse), showing no mercy to internal or external enemies. According to Mignet's History of the French Revolution: "The republic had very soon fourteen armies, and 1,200,000 soldiers. France, while it became a camp and a workshop for the republicans, became at ...
List of battles of the War of the First Coalition (20 April 1792 – 18 October 1797); List of battles of the War of the Second Coalition (1798/9 – 1801/2); List of battles of the War of the Third Coalition (1803/1805–1805/1806)
The French suffered significant losses and were forced to retreat from the region, taking up new positions to the west at Messkirch (Mößkirch, Meßkirch), and then at Stockach and Engen. At the second battle, in Stockach, on 25 March 1799, the Austrian army achieved a decisive victory over the French forces, and again pushed the French army ...
The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-29339-9. Soboul, Albert (1975). The French Revolution, 1787-1799: From the Storming of the Bastille to Napoleon. Random House. ISBN 978-0-394-47392-5. von Guttner, Darius (2015). The French Revolution. Nelson Modern History. Melbourne: Nelson Cengage. ISBN 9780170243995.