Historedia
Person

Jean-Paul Marat

Events
2
Episodes
6
Years
1793

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Jean-Paul Marat, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat

    1793

    Role: Revolutionary and Jacobin leader; victim of the assassination

    1. 9 July 1793 · Hôtel de Providence, ParisCorday travels to Paris

      Corday left her aunt in Caen on 9 July 1793 and travelled to Paris, lodging at the Hôtel de Providence.

    2. 13 July 1793 · Marat's apartment in ParisCorday stabs Marat in his bath

      On 13 July 1793 Corday obtained an audience with Marat and fatally stabbed him while he took a medicinal bath in Paris.

    3. 17 July 1793 · Place de Grève, ParisCorday guillotined

      Four days after the murder, Corday was executed by guillotine in the Place de Grève on 17 July 1793.

  2. Overthrow of the Girondins

    1793

    Role: Leader of the attack on the Convention's representatives

    1. 31 May 1793 · Paris CommuneCommune demands and preparations

      The Paris Commune demanded that 22 Girondin deputies and Commission of Twelve members face the Revolutionary Tribunal, and pressed for a revolutionary army.

    2. 31 May – 2 June 1793 · National ConventionAttack on the National Convention

      Jean-Paul Marat led the attack on Convention representatives who had voted against Louis XVI's execution and paralyzed the Convention.

    3. 31 May – 2 June 1793 · ParisOverthrow of the Girondins

      The two-day insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793 overthrew the Girondins, becoming one of the Revolution's three great popular insurrections.

Sources

  1. Charlotte Corday Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-25
  2. Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793 Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-22