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Hace 1 día · French Revolution. The French Revolution [a] was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate. Many of its ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy, [1] while its values ...
Hace 4 días · 1780s. 1780: Hyder Ali of Mysore, India develops the first metal-cylinder rockets. 1783: Claude de Jouffroy builds the first steamboat. 1783: Joseph-Ralf and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier build the first manned hot air balloon. 1783: Louis-Sébastien Lenormand invents and uses the first modern parachute.
Hace 5 días · 300–700. The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days of rioting in London motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment. They began with a large and orderly protest against the Papists Act 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics enacted by the Popery Act 1698. Lord George Gordon, head of the Protestant ...
17 de may. de 2024 · French Revolution, revolutionary movement that shook France between 1787 and 1799 and reached its first climax there in 1789—hence the conventional term ‘Revolution of 1789,’ denoting the end of the ancien regime in France and serving also to distinguish that event from the later French revolutions of 1830 and 1848.
Hace 4 días · Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain 1780-1850. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN: 521823943X; 359pp.; Price: £45.00. ‘It is time to effect a revolution in female manners’ declared the Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792 ‘– time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human ...
Hace 4 días · The book takes a ‘policy process’ approach to research the poor laws from the 1780s to 1850s. Developed in the social sciences, the methodology is used to identify the problems/issues that poor law officials had, which policies were implemented to address the problems, and how the policies were subsequently monitored, developed and changed.
30 de abr. de 2024 · The papers of statesman, publisher, scientist, and diplomat Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) consist of approximately 8,000 items spanning the years 1726 to 1907, with most dating from the 1770s and 1780s.
