Olympe de Gouges
1748–1793 · Person
Playwright who answered the Revolution's Declaration with one for women — and went to the guillotine for attacking Robespierre's Montagnards.
On these timelines: Women in history, France, Master, People
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Around 1748
- American Revolution (1765)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)