Timeline Monday 5 October 1795

Events on Monday 5 October 1795 1

• 1795 13 Vendemiaire uprising crushed in Paris Napoleon Bonaparte suppresses a royalist revolt Royalist and monarchist sympathizers rose against the National Convention in Paris, fearing the new constitution would entrench the existing regime. General Napoleon Bonaparte, acting under Paul Barras, dispersed the rebels with artillery fired at close range into the crowd. The victory, later called the "whiff of grapeshot," launched Bonaparte's rapid rise to national prominence.