The French Revolution: The Violence Begins (TRIH ep 477, part 3)
1787 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the buildup and causes of the French Revolution, arguing it was produced by three converging factors: a fiscal and political crisis, a social crisis (bad weather and hunger), and a cultural moment obsessed with progress, virtue and rebooting society.
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Around 1787
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- French Revolution (1789)