1759 CE: Georges Jacques Danton, French revolutionary leader, is born in Acris-sur-Aube.

1787 CE: Georges Danton marries Antoinette-Gabrielle Charpentier and settles in Paris.

1789 CE: After the outbreak of the French Revolution, Georges Danton is elected president of the revolutionary Cordeliers district.

1790 CE: Danton and Camille Desmoulins found the radical Cordeliers Club.

1791 CE: A pro-republican demonstration organized by the Cordeliers Club is fired on by the Paris National Guard, in the Champ de Mars Massacre.

1792 CE: Insurrectionists storm the Tuileries Palace in Paris, massacring the Swiss Guards; King Louis XVI of France is imprisoned in the Temple prison fortress two days later.

1793 CE - 1794 CE: Danton opposes the Reign of Terror, becomes the leader of the moderate Indulgent faction.

1793 CE: Antoinette-Gabrielle Charpentier, Danton's wife, dies in childbirth while he is in Belgium.

1793 CE: The Committee of Public Safety is set up by the National Convention.

1793 CE: Danton is voted off the Committee of Public Safety after failed attempts to end the war.

1794 CE: Danton is arrested alongside other leading Indulgents.

1794 CE: Execution of the Dantonists, including Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, Hérault de Séchelles, & Fabre d'Eglantine.