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Politics portal. v. t. e. Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (French: [maksimiljɛ̃ ʁɔbɛspjɛʁ]; 6 May 1758 – 10 Thermidor, Year II 28 July 1794) was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognized as one of the most influential and controversial figures of the French Revolution. Robespierre fervently campaigned for the ...
The Coup d'état of 9 Thermidor or the Fall of Maximilien Robespierre is the series of events beginning with Maximilien Robespierre 's address to the National Convention on 8 Thermidor Year II (26 July 1794), his arrest the next day, and his execution on 10 Thermidor (28 July). In the speech of 8 Thermidor, Robespierre spoke of the existence of ...
The American Civil War(April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil warin the United Statesbetween the Union[e]("the North") and the Confederacy("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by statesthat had secededfrom the Union. The central conflict leading to warwas a dispute over whether slaveryshould be permitted to ...
The Cult of the Supreme Being (French: Culte de l'Être suprême) [note 1] was a form of theocratic deism established by Maximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution as the intended state religion of France and a replacement for its rival, the Cult of Reason, and of Roman Catholicism. It went unsupported after the fall of Robespierre and ...
By April 6, 1866, the rebellion was declared over in all states but Texas. Finally, on August 20, 1866, the war was declared legally over, though fighting had been over for more than a year by then. The end of slavery in the United States of America is closely tied to the end of the Civil War.
at least 35,000–45,000[1][2] The Reign of Terror(French: la Terreur) was a period of the French Revolutionwhen, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacresand numerous public executionstook place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlericalsentiment, and accusations of treasonby the Committee of Public Safety.
Deaths. 1,100–1,600. The September Massacres were a series of killings and summary executions of prisoners in Paris that occurred in 1792, from Sunday, 2 September until Thursday, 6 September, during the French Revolution. Between 1,176 and 1,614 people [1] were killed by sans-culottes, fédérés, and guardsmen, with the support of gendarmes ...
The origins of the American Civil War are rooted in the desire of the Southern states to preserve the institution of slavery. [ 1 ] Historians in the 21st century overwhelmingly agree on the centrality of slavery in the conflict. They disagree on which aspects (ideological, economic, political, or social) were most important, and on the North ...