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The french economy was in deep trouble, bad harvests a slowdown of the manufacturing led to food shortages rising taxes for food and unenployement.
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fifth monarch of the House of Bourbon.
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was a period of radical political and societal change in France
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the king called the estates general to discuss a fiscal reform -
the National Assembly decrees that all members of his assembly shall take a solemn oath not to separate until the constitution of the kingdom is established on firm foundations -
The mob joined by some of the king soldiers stormed the bastille, they could attack poular neighbourhoods.
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They eliminated feudal dues, serfdom, tithes, hunting and fishing rights and personal privileges
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The Assembly adopts this important document, which was inspiredby the American Declaration of Independance, it affirmed the rights of man to liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.
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They marched in demand of bread, the king give them bread but after that the king was forced to approve all the National Assembly decrees. -
Secularization of the Clergy and a Civil Constitution for the Church
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The royal family was arrested. The king was guillotined in January of 1793
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The Jacobins overthrew the Girondins on the National Assembly. -
was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula , against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
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these revolutions were a mix of liberal and national revolutions hence historians call 1848 the spring of nations
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Known as The Berlin Conference, they sought to discuss the partitioning of Africa, establishing rules to amicably divide resources among the Western countries at the expense of the African people
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Climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. The Ethiopian forces defeated the Italian invading force on Sunday 1 March 1896, near the town of Adwa.
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It was a movement against the commercial, political, religious, and technological influence of Westerners in China, which took place during the last years of the nineteenth century.
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The Maji Maji Rebellion was an armed rebellion of Islamic and animist Africans against German colonial rule in German East Africa (modern-day Tanzania).