FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY CALENDAR OCTOBER 22 FREE
colonies, making France the first country to free her slaves. the Legislative Assembly (1794) liberated all slaves in French.
American psychologist and author, Timothy Leary is born in 1920. Law of 22 Prairial (June 10, 1794) Festival of the Supreme Being (June 8, 1794) Antoine Lavoisier (May 8, 1794) was beheaded. British novelist, playwright, poet and Novel Prize laureate, Doris Lessing is born in 1919. British-American actress Joan Fontaine is born in 1917. 2001: Grand Theft Auto III is released on this day. This would lead to a Supermax model being developed for future U.S prisons. 1983: Two guards at the U.S Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois are killed by inmates. 1978: John Paul II is inaugurated as Pope. 1975: Vernera 9 – an unmanned Soviet space lander – lands on Venus. 1968: After orbiting the Earth over 160+ times, Apollo 7 lands in the Atlantic Ocean. 1966: Luna 12 is launched by the Soviet Union. 1966: The Supremes’ A’ Go-Go becomes the first album by an all-female musical group to hit number 1. 1792, and ended at midnight separating the 21 from the 22 September, 1793. 1943: Over one hundred and fifty thousand people are left homeless and another ten thousand are killed when the Royal Air Force conduct a firestorm raid on the German town of Kassel. The Republican Calendar was officially adopted in France on October 24. 350 (1872)1 The French Revolutionary calendar (Le Calendrier Rpublicain)was instituted by the National Convention of the French Republic in October 1793. 1941: In retaliation for the death of a German officer, 30 French resistance members are executed – including Guy Moquet. 1934: Infamous bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot down and killed by FBI agents in East Liverpool, Ohio. Text scans courtesy of Philippe Chapelin, Recherches gnalogiques sur toute la France. Return to the main description of the French calendar. The legislative texts which established le Calendrier Rpublicain. 
1927: Six new inventions – including single phase electric power – is introduced by Nikola Tesla on this day. The French Revolutionary Calendar Calendars.1877: Over 200+ miners are killed in Scotland during the Blantyre Mining Disaster.1836: Sam Houston becomes the first President of the newly formed Republic of Texas.1784: A colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska is founded by Russia.1777: Hessian attacks against Fort Mercer on the Delaware River are driven back by the American defenders at the Battle of Red Bank during the American Revolutionary War.This college would eventually be renamed to Princeton University. 1746: A charter is granted for the College of New Jersey.Leap years (with a sixth additional day) occurred on years III, VII, and XI. The additional days at the end of the year (sans culottides) were Virtue Day, Genius Day, Labor Day, Reason Day, Rewards Day, and Revolution Day (the leap day). Each year thus began in September, and the calendar endured into the Napoleonic era before it was abandoned.Revolutionary Calendar years were divided into 12 months of 30 days, followed by five or six additional days. The Jacobins retrospectively set the first day of the first year as 22 September 1792, the day the French national government abolished the monarchy.
A method of dating set up by the Jacobin government in October 1793 to give France a time system reflective of the new political realities.
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