The Scarlet Pimpernel (Orczy, 1905)
1789 · Resource
Baroness Orczy's adventure novel of an Englishman rescuing aristocrats from the Reign of Terror.
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Around 1789
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)