Paris (TRIH ep 57)
1789 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook welcome French journalist Agnès Poirier for a wide-ranging, whistle-stop history of Paris. The discussion begins with the symbolic power of Notre-Dame and Poirier's personal account of the 2019 fire, then surveys Paris’s long continuity from Roman Lutetia through its medieval boom, the intellectual life of the University of Paris, and the ferment that produced the French Revolution.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1789
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- American Revolution (1765)