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5 giorni fa · The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Last Updated: Apr 22, 2024 • Article History. William and Mary. Also called: Revolution of 1688 or Bloodless Revolution. Date: 1688 - 1689. Location: United Kingdom. England. Major Events: Toleration Act. Key People: William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire. James II. Thomas Osborne, 1st duke of Leeds.
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5 giorni fa · Liberty or Death: The French Revolution. London, Yale University Press, 2016, ISBN: 9780300189933; 488pp.; Price: £19.99. ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’, is how Charles Dickens began his stirring evocation of the French Revolution in A Tale of Two Cities. He had it about right.
3 giorni fa · Iranian Revolution, popular uprising in Iran in 1978–79 that resulted in the toppling of the monarchy on February 11, 1979, and led to the establishment of an Islamic republic. Prelude to revolution
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5 giorni fa · With the Bastille being destroyed in the background, a member of the Third Estate breaks his shackles. Here, the clergy and nobility recoil in fear, thereby emphasizing the conflict between the estates during the French Revolution. “Awakening of the Third Estate,” 1789, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
3 giorni fa · The Romanian Revolution was the bloodiest of the revolutions of 1989: over 1,000 people died, one hundred of which were children, the youngest only one month old. Unlike its kindred parties in the Warsaw Pact, the PCR simply melted away; no present-day Romanian party claiming to be its successor has ever been elected to the legislature since the change of system.
3 giorni fa · The Iranian Revolution (Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn]), also known as the 1979 Revolution and the Islamic Revolution (انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979.
5 giorni fa · After the American Revolution began, the first, unofficial national flag—known as the Continental Colours (or, sometimes, as the Grand Union Flag, the Cambridge Flag, the Somerville Flag, or the Union Flag)—was hoisted on a towering 76-foot (23-metre) liberty pole at Prospect Hill in Charlestown (now in Somerville), Massachusetts, on January 1, 1776; it was raised at the behest of Gen ...
