The French Revolution was a time of upheaval, especially towards traditional ideology, in almost every sense: the current monarch, King Louis XVI, was executed ; the Catholic Church was all but abolished ; a new calendar was created ; and a new Republican government was established.

The French Republican Calendar () or French Revolutionary Calendar ( calendrier révolutionnaire français ) was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days by the Paris Commune in 1871.

The new Republican government sought to institute, among other reforms, a new social and legal system, a new system of weights and measures ( which became the metric system ), and a new calendar.

* In the French Republican Calendar, a calendar used by the French government for about twelve years from late 1793, the epoch was the beginning of the " Republican Era ", September 22, 1792 ( the day the French First Republic was proclaimed, one day after the Convention abolished the monarchy ).

He seemed to have three options: to continue as a Republican despite the fact that the calendar was not friendly and he had lost three consecutive primaries in states where he needed to do well ; to drop out of the race ; or to mount an independent candidacy.

the French Republican Calendar | French Revolutionary calendar began in September with the Revolution and therefore each Revolutionary year falls into two Gregorian calendar years.

The French Republican Calendar was introduced ( along with decimal time ) in 1793, and was similar to the ancient Egyptian calendar.

A 1929 Time magazine article reporting Soviet five-day work weeks, which it called an " Eternal calendar ", associated them with the French Republican Calendar, which had months containing three ten-day weeks.

The start of the political downfall of the Directory is usually dated from 18 June 1799, (< span lang =" fr "> 30 Prairial Year VII </ span > by the French Republican calendar ) when < span lang =" fr "> Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès </ span > with the help of < span lang =" fr "> Paul Barras </ span > successfully rid himself of the other then-sitting directors.

She was arrested on 20 April 1793 ( 1 floréal an II of the Republican calendar ) during the Terror, and first imprisoned in the La Force prison in Paris.

Festivals in ancient Rome were an important part of Roman religious life during both the Republican and Imperial eras, and one of the primary features of the Roman calendar.

During his tenure in National Convention, Romme served in the Comité de l ’ instruction Publique ( Committee of Public Education ), where he presented his Republican calendar on 17 September 1793.

Each day of the year was named not after Catholic Saints as in the Gregorian calendar, nor Ile-de-France agriculture as in the French Republican calendar, but after figures in history in various fields.

During the French Revolution in 1793, in connection with its Republican calendar, France attempted to introduce a decimal time system.

* French Republican Calendar A calendar used by the French between 1792 and 1805

Liavek uses a calendar which is a simple adaptation of the French Republican calendar.

The Gregorian calendar, an instrument decreed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, was replaced by the French Republican Calendar which abolished the sabbath, Saints ' days and any references to the Church.

( 1st Brumaire, Year VI of the Republican calender. calendar ) Garnerin's first parachute resembled a closed umbrella before he ascended, with a pole running down its center and a rope running through a tube in the pole, which connected it to the balloon.

Decimal time was introduced as part of the French Republican Calendar, which, in addition to decimally dividing the day, divided the month into three décades of 10 days each ; this calendar was abolished at the end of 1805.

-- Fifteen members of the Republican State Committee who are retiring -- voluntarily -- this year were honored yesterday by their colleagues.

Some suggested Schwarzlose's unexpected voter turnout foreshadowed Clinton's defeat in the general election that year by Republican challenger Frank D. White.

Clinton signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 in August of that year, which passed Congress without a Republican vote.

1932 was not a good year for Republican candidates like LaGuardia, and the 20th Congressional district was shifting from a Jewish and Italian-American population to a Puerto Rican population.

At the end of the year, concerned by Francisco Franco's Falangist uprising, ( supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ), Orwell decided to go to Spain to take part in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side.

With a split in the state Republican party, 1882 looked to be a Democratic year, and there were several contenders for that party's nomination.

Hoover briefly considered becoming a Democrat, but he believed that 1920 would be a Republican year.

Usually five epagomenal days are included within every year ( Egyptian, Coptic, Ethiopian and French Republican calendars ), but a sixth epagomenal day is intercalated every four years in some ( Coptic, Ethiopian and French Republican calendars ).

* 2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.

The title track was a big hit and was used for Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney's theme song for his campaign in 2011 and 2012. It reached platinum a year after its release.

One year after the United States invasion of the island, Dr. José Celso Barbosa embraced the idea of annexation as a U. S. state as a solution to the colonial situation and founded the Republican Party in 1899.

* 1792 – Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.

In that year Kansas, a Republican state, voted down two separate referenda granting suffrage to blacks and women, respectively.

In 1881, one year out of Harvard, he was elected to the New York State Assembly, where he became a leader of the reform faction of his Republican party ( the " GOP ").

On February 8 of that year, another Republican, Senator Charles Sumner ( Radical Republican, Massachusetts ), submitted a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery as well as guarantee equality.

By 1910, 31 state legislatures had passed resolutions calling for a constitutional amendment allowing direct election, and in the same year ten Republican senators who were opposed to reform were forced out of their seats, acting as a " wake-up call to the Senate ".

The candidate running against Democrat James Traficant, a conservative Democrat with no Republican opposition that year, received 9 %.

* November 4 – United States presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger and former Governor Ronald Reagan of California defeats incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter, exactly 1 year after the beginning of the Iran hostage crisis.

A year later, Garfield entered politics as a Republican, after campaigning for the party's antislavery platform in Ohio.

In 1880, the Ohio legislature elected him to the U. S. Senate ; in that same year, the leading Republican presidential contenders – Ulysses S. Grant, James G. Blaine and John Sherman – failed to garner the requisite support at their convention.

As the year 1932 began, the Republican Party believed Hoover's protectionism and aggressive fiscal policies would solve the depression ; in any case, President Herbert Hoover controlled the party.

Dewey also played a major role that year in convincing Eisenhower to keep Nixon as his running mate ; Eisenhower had considered dropping Nixon from the Republican ticket and picking someone he felt would be less partisan and controversial.