The French Revolution: The Rights of Man (TRIH ep 480, part 6)
1789 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (approved 26 August 1789), placing it within the immediate revolutionary context: the fall of the Bastille, La Grande Peur and the National Assembly's legislative response (notably the Night of 4 August).
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Around 1789
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- American Revolution (1765)