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1 giorno fa · The Revolution was the result of multiple long-term and short-term factors that culminated in a social, economic, financial and political crisis in the late 1780s. Combined with resistance to reform by the ruling elite, and indecisive policy by Louis XVI and his ministers, the state was unable to manage the crisis.
- 5 May 1789 – 9 November 1799, (10 years, 6 months, and 4 days)
1 giorno fa · 1780s. 1780: Hyder Ali of Mysore develops the first metal-cylinder rockets. 1783: Claude de Jouffroy builds the first steamboat. 1783: Joseph-Ralf and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier build the first manned hot air balloon. 1783: Louis-Sébastien Lenormand invents and uses the first modern parachute.
1 giorno fa · The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
21 apr 2024 · Overall, Kaiser’s essay asks whether France’s diplomatic and military policy in the 1770s and 1780s contributed anything other than severe fiscal distress to the fall of the old regime.
2 giorni fa · The 1770s and 1780s witnessed the enthronement of imprisonment as the new key sentencing option. The 1780s saw experiments with solitary confinement and prison reform which largely died away in wartime only to reappear as a major agenda after 1815.
3 giorni fa · Dr Richard Butterwick, review of Joseph II: Vol. II, Against the World, 1780-1790, (review no. 899) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/899. Date accessed: 29 April, 2024. It has been a long time. The first volume of Derek Beales’s biography of Joseph II took about as long to write as the Holy Roman Emperor’s 15-year co-regency ...
1 giorno fa · French colonial empire. The French colonial empire ( French: Empire colonial français) comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward.
