The French Revolution: Showdown in Versailles (TRIH ep 478, part 4)
1789 · Resource
This episode examines the immediate lead-up to the French Revolution in 1788–1789. Holland and Sandbrook discuss a sequence of catastrophic weather events — a massive hailstorm (13 July 1788), drought, and an unusually severe winter — that destroyed harvests, drove up bread prices and deepened social unrest.
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Around 1789
- 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)
- Opium Wars (1839)