The French revolutionary calendar is quite famous, because quite many significant events during the revolutionary period and early years to the Napoleon's reign

The French revolutionary calendar is quite famous, because quite many significant events during the revolutionary period and early years to the Napoleon's reign are known by their dates: Most famous of all is the Eighteenth Brumaire, when Napoleon overthrew revolutionary institution and became the de facto dictator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_of_18_Brumaire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_of_18_Brumaire The date was made even more famous by one Karl Marx, who used it in the evocative title of his essay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Louis_Napoleon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Lou... (or maybe the essay got famous because the title was evocative, don't know). Also quite famous was the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermidorian_Reaction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermidorian_Reaction which saw Robespierre and the Jacobins overthrown. For other slightly less known events, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_the_French_Revolution#Events_commonly_known_by_their_Revolutionary_dates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_the_French_Revolut...