Approximately 800 people on the king’s side were killed and Paris was put in the hands of the revolutionaries.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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Approximately 800 people on the king’s side were killed and Paris was put in the hands of the revolutionaries.
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.
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.
King Louis XVI of France and his family were caught attempting to escape Paris during the Flight to Varennes.
Vladimir Lenin arrived in Russia after a decade of self-imposed exile.
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.
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.
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated as German Emperor and King of Prussia after the German Revolution took hold.
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.
The assassination of Lenin was attempted by Fanya Kaplan, a member of the anti-Bolshevik faction of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.
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