1758 in art 1758 in literature 1758 in music 1758 in science List of state leaders in 1758 List of religious leaders in 1758 1758 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1758 - Events. April 29 - Battle of the Bay of Bengal - A French fleet under Sir George Pocock engages the French fleet of Anne Antoine d'Aché indecisively near Madras. May 21 - Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French ...

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On August 10, 1792, during the French Revolution, a mob – with the backing of a new municipal government of Paris that came to be known as the "insurrectionary" Paris Commune – besieged the Tuileries palace. King Louis XVI and the royal family took shelter with the Legislative Assembly. This proved to be the effective end of the French Monarchy (until it was restored in 1814). The formal end of the monarchy occurred six ...

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"Atlantic Revolutions" is a cover term for a wave of late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century revolutions associated with the Enlightenment. American Revolution (1775-1783) Revolt of Dutch Patriots (1785) French Revolution (1789-1799) Haitian Revolution (1791-1802) Polish War in the defence of constitution (1792) and Kosciuszko Uprising (1794) Batavian Revolution (1795-1801) Irish Rebellion of 1798 Latin American wars of liberation May Rev ...

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Charlotte Corday (July 27, 1768–July 17, 1793), more fully Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont, killed Jean-Paul Marat in 1793. Corday was a member of an aristocratic but poor family. She was educated at the Abbaye aux Dames, a convent in Caen, Normandy. She approved of the French revolution, and was an enthusiastic supporter of the Girondists. Jean-Paul Marat (1743–1793) was a member of the radical Jacobin faction that initiated the mass atrocities and beheadings known as the Reign of Terror, which fo ...

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2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personal). Arras is a town and commune in northern France, préfecture (capital) of the Pas-de-Calais département. Arras - History. Originally settled by the Celtic tribe of the Atrebates, it later became a Roman garrison town known as Atrebatum. It is located in the former Dutch and French province of ...

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The Committee of Public Safety (French: comité de salut public), set up by the National Convention on April 6, 1793, formed the de facto executive government of France during the Reign of Terror (1793 - 1794) of the French Revolution.Under war conditions and with national survival seemingly at stake, the Jacobins under Robespierre centralized denunciations, trials, and exec ...

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1794 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1794 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). 1794 - Events. February 11 - 1st session of the United States Senate is open to the public. ...

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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800 in the Gregorian calendar. European history scholars will sometimes specifically refer to the 18th century as 1715-1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolution. 18th century - Events. 18th century - 1700s. 1701-1714: War of the Spanish Succession 1703: Saint Petersb ...

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(1st millennium – 2nd millennium – 3rd millennium – other millennia) 2nd millennium - Events. European crusades in Middle East Mongol Empires in Asia The Black Death The Renaissance in Europe The Protestant Reformation The agricultural and industrial revolutions The rise of nationalism and the nation state European discovery of the Americas and Australia and their colonization European colonization and decolonization in Afri ...

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List of French people - A. Isabelle Adjani Renée Adorée Anouk Aimée Arletty Antonin Artaud Fanny Ardant Jeanne Aubert Jean-Pierre Aumont Claude Autant-Lara Daniel Auteuil Charles Aznavour List of French people - B-C. Brigitte Bardot Emmanuelle Béart Jean-Paul Belmondo Charles Berling Sarah Bernhardt Suzanne Bianchetti ...

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In 1789, the French Revolution swept France. Condorcet took a leading role, hoping for a rationalist reconstruction of society, and championed many liberal causes. As a result, in 1791 he was elected as the Paris representative in the Legislative Assembly, and then became the secretary of the Assembly. The Assembly adopted Condorcet's design for state education system, and Condorcet drafted a proposed Constitution for the new France. He advocated women's suffrage for the new government, writing an article for Journal de la Société de 1789, and by publishing "De l'admission des femmes au droit de cité" ("For the A ...

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There is some conflict as to how the word guillotine should be pronounced. The word entered English from French in 1793, and since then authorities on pronunciation have debated, not whether guillotine should be pronounced [ˈgɪ.lə.tin] or [ˈgi.jə.tin], but whether it should be pronounced with a stress on the third syllable (See also:

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List of people who were executed - Deposed leaders and families. Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong (d. 1979) Akwasi Afrifa (d. 1979) Marie Antoinette (d. 1793) ruling class Ion Antonescu (d. 1946) Madame du Barry (d. 1793) ruling class Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (d. 1979) Maurice Bishop (d. 1983) Elena Ceauşescu (d. 1989) ruling class Nicolae Ceauşescu (d. 1989) King Charles I of England (d. 1649) Madame Elisabeth (d. 1793) ruling ...

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18th century - 1700s. 1701-1714: War of the Spanish Succession 1703: Saint Petersburg founded by Peter the Great. Russian capital until 1918. 1707: Act of Union passed merging the Scottish and the English Parliaments, thus establishing The Kingdom of Great Britain. 1707: After Aurangzeb's death, the Mughal Empire enters a long decline. 18th century - 1710s. 1715: Louis XIV dies 1718: City of New Orleans founde ...

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Napoleon I of France - The coup of 18 Brumaire. While in Egypt, Bonaparte had kept a close eye on European affairs, relying largely on newspapers and dispatches that arrived only irregularly. On 23 August 1799, he abruptly set sail for France, taking advantage of the temporary departure of British ships blockading French coastal ports. Although he was later accused by political opponents of abandoning his troops, his departure actually had been authorized by the Directory, which had suffered a series of military defeats to the ...

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Georg Forster - Childhood and first journeys. Georg Forster was born in the small village of Mokry Dwór (German Nassenhuben), near Gdańsk (Danzig) in the Polish province of Royal Prussia. He was the first child of Johann Reinhold Forster and Justina Elisabeth (née Nicolai). His father was a naturalist, scientist and a Lutheran pastor. In 1765, the Russian tsar gave the pastor an assignment to travel in Russia on a research journey and investigate the situation of a German colony at the Volga Rive ...

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France in the nineteenth century - The Period of the French Revolution. Louis XVI of France's reign saw a temporary revival of French fortunes, but the over-ambitious projects and military campaigns of the 18th century had produced chronic financial problems. Deteriorating economic conditions, popular resentment against the complicated system of privileges granted the nobility and clerics, and a lack of alternate avenues for change were among the principal causes for convoking the Estates-General which convened i ...

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Revolutionary inventions call for a similar 'revolutionary' change in one or many human societies. Examples may include the haber process's effect on agricultural production in first world countries, or the textile mill. Paleontologists call for division of prehistoric human societies along what could be considered 'revolutionary' inventions, eg. two ages of early and late stone working, settled agriculture, etc. For a better listing of popularly accepted revolutions, see the art ...

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The reaction arose in Europe in response to the French Revolution, which, to some extent, embodied the ideas of the Enlightenment. Upon the regicide of the French King Louis XVI, the revolutionists signalled a "worldwide uprising against all monarchists, an uprising to be led by France's armies." (2) Furthermore, the revolution set precedents in undermining (or even completely eliminating) the power of the aristocracy through the confiscation of feudal estates. Under the liberal monarchists of 1789, some of the vast estates of the clergy and ...

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Like all FRC monthes Thermidor lasted 30 days and was divided into 3 decades. Every day had the name of an agricultural plant, exept the 5th (Quintidi) and 10th day (Decadi) of every decade, which had the name of a domestic animal (Quintidi) or an agricultural tool (Decadi). ...

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On 2 June, Paris sections — encouraged by the enragés ("enraged ones") Jacques Roux and Jacques Hébert — took over the Convention, calling for administrative and political purges, a low fixed price for bread, and a limitation of the electoral franchise to sans-culottes alone. With the backing of the National Guard, they managed to convince the Convention to arrest 31 Girondin leaders, including Jacques Pierre Brissot. Following these arrests, the Jacobins gained control of the Committee of Public Safety on 10 June, instal ...

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