The Reign of Terror happened after 15 months after The French Revolution on September 5, 1793 and ended on July 28, 1724. It started due to differences between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution." Many people were killed estimates were made from anywhere between 16,000 and 41,000.
Maximilien Robespierre took over France and ruled it like a dictator. Many feared him others tried to gain more power than him and take back the government. He beheaded the kings and queens. He removed Kings, Queens, and Jacks from playing cards and put the faces of Revolutionaries on them instead. He had sunday removed from the calendar since the new radicals thought religion was old-fashioned. His rule did end though ironically the same way the Kings and Queens ended.
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