Tag: Revolution

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10th August 1792: French revolutionaries storm the Tuileries Palace in “the Second Revolution”

• 10th August 2023
• Tagged as: France, French Revolution, Louis XVI, Paris, Revolution, Tuileries

Approximately 800 people on the king’s side were killed and Paris was put in the hands of the revolutionaries.

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14th July 1789: Storming of the Bastille marks the start of the French Revolution

• 14th July 2023
• Tagged as: Bastille, France, French Revolution, Louis XVI, Paris, Revolution

The Bastille had long been a symbol of tyranny as a place for the imprisonment of people without trial, but when it was stormed it only contained seven prisoners.

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27th June 1905: Mutiny on board the Russian battleship Potemkin

• 27th June 2023
• Tagged as: Communism, Mutiny, Odessa, Potemkin, Revolt, Revolution, Russia

Seven of the ship’s eighteen officers, including Giliarovsky and the Captain, were killed in the mutiny before the Tsar’s forces launched a crackdown at the Odessa steps.

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21st June 1791: Louis XVI’s attempts to escape from Paris in the Flight to Varennes

• 21st June 2023
• Tagged as: Austria, Flight to Varennes, French Revolution, Holy Roman Empire, Louis XVI, Revolution, Treason

King Louis XVI of France and his family were caught attempting to escape Paris during the Flight to Varennes.

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16th April 1917: Lenin arrives back in Russia in the sealed train after a decade in exile

• 16th April 2023
• Tagged as: Bolshevik, Communism, Communist, Exile, Finland, First World War, Germany, Lenin, Nicholas II, Politics, Provisional Government, Revolution, Russian Revolution, Saint Petersburg, Switzerland

Vladimir Lenin arrived in Russia after a decade of self-imposed exile.

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24th February 1848: King Louis Philippe of France abdicates the throne amidst revolutions that were beginning to sweep across the continent

• 24th February 2023
• Tagged as: France, Louis Philippe, Revolution, Second Republic

Louis Philippe’s reign began positively, but over time he faced mounting opposition. After abdicating he fled across the Channel to Britain where he died two years later.

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15th January 1919: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht killed by members of the Freikorps after the Spartacist Revolt

• 15th January 2023
• Tagged as: Berlin, Communism, Ebert, First World War, Freikorps, Germany, Revolution, Socialism, Spartacist Revolt, Uprising, Wilhelm II

The two German socialists were joint-founders of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany, and were captured following the Spartacist uprising that began on 4 January.

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9th November 1918: Wilhelm II abdicates as Kaiser of Germany

• 9th November 2022
• Tagged as: Abdication, Empire, First World War, German Revolution, Germany, Kaiser, Prussia, Revolution, Wilhelm II

Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated as German Emperor and King of Prussia after the German Revolution took hold.

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9th October 1967: Execution of Marxist revolutionary icon Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara in Bolivia

• 9th October 2022
• Tagged as: Bolivia, Castro, Che Guevara, Communism, Cuba, Execution, Marxism, Revolution

Guevara was shot nine times in a way designed to make the injuries look like they had been caused during a battle with the Bolivian army.

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30th August 1918: Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, survives an assassination attempt

• 30th August 2022
• Tagged as: Assassination, Bolshevik, Communism, Lenin, Revolution, Russia, Russian Revolution

The assassination of Lenin was attempted by Fanya Kaplan, a member of the anti-Bolshevik faction of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.