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August 6: A French fleet and expeditionary force sails for Ireland to aid the Irish rebels, though the rebellion is already defeated. August 22: French troops under General Humbert land at Killala, in northwest Ireland. August 27: General Humbert defeats a British force at the Battle of Castlebar, and declares an Irish republic.
The following is a chronological list of artistic movements or periods in France indicating artists who are sometimes associated or grouped with those movements. See also European art history, Art history and History of Painting and Art movement.
This is a timeline of French history, comprising important legal changes and political events in France and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of France .
The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, [d] then the French Empire after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century. It lasted from 18 May 1804 to 3 May 1814 and again briefly from 20 ...
Its impact on French nationalism was profound, while also stimulating nationalist movements throughout Europe. [229] Some modern historians argue the concept of the nation state was a direct consequence of the revolution. [ 230 ]
A map of France in 1843 under the July Monarchy. By the French Revolution, the Kingdom of France had expanded to nearly the modern territorial limits. The 19th century would complete the process by the annexation of the Duchy of Savoy and the County of Nice (first during the First Empire, and then definitively in 1860) and some small papal (like Avignon) and foreign possessions.
1885–96: Cần Vương movement of Vietnam, led by emperor Hàm Nghi, against French colonialism; 1885: The North-West Rebellion of Métis in Saskatchewan. 1885: Bulgarian unification - accomplished after revolts in Eastern Rumelian towns, followed by a coup. 1888: The Peasant Rebellion in Banten, Indonesia. 1889: The Republican Revolution in ...
Timeline of the French Revolution; S. Smuggling in pre-revolutionary France This page was last edited on 24 March 2019, at 21:01 (UTC). Text ...