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August 27 is the 239th day of the year ... 1813 – French Emperor Napoleon I defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
Human translations only, please. Thank you, The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 03:35, 27 August 2008 (UTC) One possible Latin translation: Homo pinguis qui numquam rediit. Deor 03:59, 27 August 2008 (UTC) French: Le gros qui ne revint jamais.--Lgriot 05:02, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
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 meeting at Pillnitz Castle in 1791. Oil painting by J. H. Schmidt, 1791. The Declaration of Pillnitz was a statement of five sentences [1] issued on 27 August 1791 at Pillnitz Castle near Dresden by Frederick William II of Prussia and the Habsburg Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor who was Marie Antoinette's brother. [2]
French National Day, commemorates the Feast of the Federation: 15 August: Assumption Day: Assomption: 1 November: All Saints' Day: Toussaint: 11 November: Armistice Day: Armistice 1918: End of World War I. [5] 25 December: Christmas Day: Noël: Newspapers are not published. Pubs, restaurants, shops, etc. closed all day by law. 26 December ...
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen de 1789), set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human and civil rights document from the French Revolution; the French title can also be translated in the modern era as "Declaration of Human and Civic Rights".
21 August – Haitian Revolution: A slave rebellion breaks out in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. 27 August Declaration of Pillnitz: A proclamation by Frederick William II of Prussia and the Habsburg Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, affirms their wish to "put the King of France in a state to strengthen the bases of monarchic government."
On 27 August, Emperor Leopold II ... The French Revolution, a Political History, 1789–1804 (1905), was a democratic and republican interpretation of the Revolution ...