1758 CE: Maximilien Robespierre is born in Arras, a small city in Artois, France.

1769 CE - 1777 CE: Robespierre studies at the Louis-le-Grand college in Paris; during his studies, he is acquainted with the works of Rousseau.

1781 CE - 1789 CE: Robespierre practices law in Arras, earning a reputation as a defender of the marginalized.

1789 CE: Robespierre attends the opening of the Estates-General of 1789, which kicks off the French Revolution.

1790 CE: Robespierre is first elected to the presidency of the Jacobin Club.

1791 CE: The Jacobin Club fractures; Robespierre begins lodging at the Duplay house.

1793 CE: Maximilien Robespierre elected to the Committee of Public Safety; the National Convention institutes death penalty for hoarders of goods.

1794 CE: Festival of the Supreme Being is held on the Champ de Mars.

1794 CE: Law of 22 Prairial intensifies the Reign of Terror, accelerating the trial phase and leading to more executions.

1794 CE: For unknown reasons, Robespierre secludes himself from public life, giving his enemies time to gather.

1794 CE: Maximilien Robespierre returns to the National Convention to defend himself from political attack, implicates numerous "traitors" within the Convention but refuses to name names.

1794 CE: The National Convention orders the arrests of Robespierre, Saint-Just, Couthon, and others; they escape and take refuge in the Hôtel de Ville.

1794 CE: Robespierre and his followers are denounced by the National Convention and declared to be outlaws.

1794 CE: Execution of Robespierre, Saint-Just, and Couthon; end to the Terror, beginning of the Thermidorian Reaction.