The Terror: Killing God (TRIH ep 711, part 5)
1793 · Resource
Why did Robespierre hold a vast, eccentric festival in 1794 when The Reign of Terror was at its most frenzied? What does it reveal about his psychology and belief in the divine? And, did he really believe that the French Revolution could succeed in supplanting the Christian God?
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- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
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- Opium Wars (1839)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Revolution (1765)