The War of the First Coalition was the first large effort by European monarchies to defeat Revolutionary France. It began when France declared war on Austria, and Prussia joined Austria, while the French victory at Valmy in the autumn of 1792 halted the invasion. After the execution of Louis XVI, Britain, Spain, the Dutch Republic and others joined the coalition. France responded with mass conscription, the levee en masse, and gradually won the upper hand. In 1796 and 1797, a young general, Napoleon Bonaparte, defeated the Austrians in northern Italy, which forced Austria to make peace at Campo Formio, leaving Britain the main opponent of France.
Before and after
- 1792Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- 29 February 1792Birth of Gioachino Rossini
- 7 March 1792Birth of John Frederick William Herschel
- from 20 April 1792 to 20 November 1815Coalition Wars
- from 20 April 1792 to 18 October 1797War of the First Coalition
- from 20 April 1792 to 25 March 1802French Revolutionary Wars
- 12 May 1792Founding of New York Stock Exchange
- 13 May 1792Birth of Pius IX
- from 18 May 1792 to 27 July 1792Polish–Russian War of 1792
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The era
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