The French Revolution (TRIH ep 48)
1788 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the causes, course and legacy of the French Revolution. They outline the structural problems (demographic pressure, fiscal crisis, bad harvests), the convocation of the Estates-General, the Tennis Court Oath, and the popular unrest culminating in the Storming of the Bastille.
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Around 1788
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- American Revolution (1765)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)