The French Revolution: The Storming of the Bastille (TRIH ep 479, part 5)
1789 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the events of July 1789 and the storming of the Bastille. They set the scene with the food shortage, bad harvests, financial crisis and the dismissal of finance minister Jacques Necker, which sparked mass outrage in Paris.
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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)