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The storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789, during the French Revolution. Greek War of Independence, (1821–29), rebellion of Greeks within the Ottoman Empire, a struggle which resulted in the establishment of an independent Greece. This is a list of revolutions, rebellions, insurrections, and uprisings.
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The Persian Revolt was a campaign led by Cyrus the Great against Median rule of Persia (552–550 BC) Civil war between Artaxerxes II and Cyrus III (c. 401 BC) Roman civil wars (a list of numerous civil wars in the late Roman Republic and in the Roman Empire, between 100 BC and AD 400) Hasmonean civil war (67–63 BC) Sasanian civil war of 589 ...
Introduction: The great powers of Europe -- The diplomacy of revolution, 1848 -- The diplomacy of revolution, 1849-50 -- The end of the holy alliance, 1852-3 -- The Crimean War, 1854-6 -- The Congress of Paris and its consequences, 1856-8 -- The Italian war and the disruption of the settlement of Vienna, 1858-61 -- The Polish crisis, and the end of the Franco-Russian Entente, 1861-3 ...
The revolutions were essentially democratic and liberal in nature, with the aim of removing the old monarchical structures and creating independent nation-states, as envisioned by romantic nationalism. The revolutions spread across Europe after an initial revolution began in Italy in January 1848.
The Jacquerie was a peasant revolt that took place in northern France in 1356–1358, during the Hundred Years' War. The Tuchin revolt 1378–1384; The English Peasants' Revolt or Great Rising of 1381 is a major event in the history of England. It is the best documented among the revolts of this period. 1401–1409 Samogitian uprisings
The Revolutions of 1830 were a revolutionary wave in Europe which took place in 1830. It included two " romantic nationalist " revolutions , the Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the July Revolution in France along with rebellions in Congress Poland , Italian states , Portugal and Switzerland .
The Age of Revolution is a period from the late-18th to the mid-19th centuries during which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred in most of Europe and the Americas. [2] The period is noted for the change from absolutist monarchies to representative governments with a written constitution , and the creation of nation states .