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July 1789 July 6: The National Assembly forms a committee of thirty members to write a new Constitution. July 8: As tensions mount, the Comte de Mirabeau , Third-Estate deputy from Aix, demands that the Gardes Françaises of the military household of the king of France be moved out of Paris, and that a new civil guard be created within the city.
1789: George Washington is elected the first President of the United States. Inaugurated on April 30, he serves until 1797. 1789: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen adopted. 1789: Great Britain and Spain dispute the Nootka Sound during the Nootka Crisis. 1789–1799: French Revolution. Napoleon at the Bridge of the Arcole.
Events Photos Refs Sunday, 26 April: Riot in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine suburb of Paris against the manufacturer of Réveillon wallpapers. Tuesday, 5 May: Convention of the Estates-General of 1789, the first meeting since 1614 of the Estates-General; Saturday, 20 June: The Tennis Court Oath is made in Versailles. Thursday, 9 July
The French Revolution had a major impact on western history by ending feudalism in France and creating a path for advances in individual freedoms throughout Europe. [ 228 ] [ 2 ] The revolution represented the most significant challenge to political absolutism up to that point in history and spread democratic ideals throughout Europe and ...
1789 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1789th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 789th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of ...
The Thirty Years' War was fought between 1618 and 1648, across Germany and neighbouring areas, and involved most of the major European powers except England and Russia, [70] involving Catholics versus Protestants for the most part. The major impact of the war was the devastation of entire regions scavenged bare by the foraging armies.
France made its revolutions and gave them their ideas, to the point where a tricolour of some kind became the emblem of virtually every emerging nation, and European (or indeed world) politics between 1789 and 1917 were largely the struggle for and against the principles of 1789, or the even more incendiary ones of 1793.
12 May – William Wilberforce makes his first major speech in the House of Commons on the abolition of the slave trade. [8] 14 June – Mutiny on the Bounty survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000-mile journey in an open boat. [7] 28 August – William Herschel discovers Enceladus, one of Saturn ...