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| 1795, Feb. 25 |
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| Law on secondary education. Schools established for secondary education for boys. Scholarships would be provided for poorer children, and teaching would be in French. | 1 |
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| March 5 |
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| Treaty of Basel between France and Prussia. Prussia, Saxony, Hanover, and Hesse-Cassel withdrew from war, followed by a peace at Basel between Spain and France (June 22). | 2 |
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| April 1 |
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| Bread riots in Paris marked a growing reaction in the capital and throughout the country. Monarchist agitation revived, and some émigrés returned. | 3 |
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| April 7 |
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| Adoption of the metric system of standardized weights and measures throughout France, which assisted in trade between regions. | 4 |
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| May 20 |
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| The White Terror. Further riots and outbreaks included a fierce attack on the Convention. The movement resulted in the extermination of the remnants of the Mountain. Meanwhile, French armies were uniformly successful. | 5 |
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| May 23 |
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| Women forbidden to attend any political assembly. The decision may have reflected the belief that women, who were believed to be reactive, could not participate in politics and might incite rebellion by emotional actions at meetings. Men, in contrast, were considered capable of rational and constructive behavior. | 6 |
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| June 8 |
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| Death of the dauphin. | 7 |
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| Aug. 22 |
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| THE CONSTITUTION OF 1795 (third constitution of the Revolution, also called the Constitution of Year III) was ratified by the assembly. Law of two-thirds determined that two-thirds of the next legislature would be drawn from the ranks of the National Convention. | 8 |
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| Oct. 5 |
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| The Day of the Sections. Outbreak of sections led by Paris royalists were successfully stopped by Napoleon Bonaparte's “whiff of grapeshot.” Cannonade from the Church of St. Roch marked a complete victory for the Convention. The Convention, after voting that relatives of émigrés should not be permitted to hold office, was dissolved. | 9 |
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