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Aug 1792 - Sept 1792 |
French Revolution: The Commune of Paris (six ministers including Danton) tries to fend off invasion and organize elections. |
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Aug 4, 1792 |
Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley. |
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Aug 10, 1792 |
French Revolution: Insurrection in Paris; attack on the Tuileries Palace leading to the suspension of the King's powers, the imprisonment of the royal family, and the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly; the monarchy is overthrown. |
*French Revolution |
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Aug 20, 1792 |
French Revolution: The Coalition Armies (Austrian, Prussian, and French royalist troops) attack France. |
*French Revolution |
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Sept 2, 1792 - Sept 6, 1792 |
French Revolution: The "September Massacres"; also called "the uprising of the Paris Commune": 12,000 political prisoners murdered following the news of the fall of Verdun. (These prisoners were ordinary criminals, priests, aristocrats, counter-revolutionaries, and servants of these people.) |
*French Revolution |
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Sept 13, 1792 |
Thomas Paine flees to France. |
*French Revolution |
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Sept 20, 1792 |
French Revolution: The French win a major battle at Valmy; Coalition army retreats to the Rhine. |
*French Revolution |
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Sept 21, 1792 |
French Revolution: Newly elected National Convention abolishes the monarchy; France declared a Republic. |
*French Revolution |
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Sept 21, 1792 |
London Corresponding Society's "Joint Address to the French National Convention." |
*French Revolution |
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Oct 29, 1792 |
France Revolution: Louvet denounces Robespierre all alone. |
*French Revolution |
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Nov 1792 |
Beethoven leaves for Vienna to study with Haydn, never returning to Bonn. |
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Nov 1792 |
French Revolution: France calls on other nations to revolt, pledging her assistance and fraternity. |
*French Revolution |
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Nov 20, 1792 |
The anti-jacobin backlash: John Reeves founds the Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers. They begin bringing charges of libel and sedition against pro-reform booksellers and publishers, many of whom, after spending years in prison and paying inordinate fines, emigrated to the U.S. |
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Dec 1792 |
First General Convention of Scottish Reformers in Edinburgh (Muir & Palmer). |
*Scotland |
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Dec 1792 |
French Revolution: Louis XVI tried for treason. |
*French Revolution |
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Dec 1792 |
William Wordsworth returns to England, leaving his lover Annette Vallon. |
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Dec 1792 |
Mary Wollstonecraft leaves for France 3 weeks after her confrontation with Sophia Fuseli. |
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Dec 1, 1792 |
King's Proclamation drawing out the British militia. |
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Dec 15, 1792 |
Annette Vallon gives birth to Caroline, her daughter by William Wordsworth. |
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Dec 18, 1792 |
Thomas Paine found guilty of sedition for The Rights Of Man (Part II) and sentenced to death (people convicted of "treason," a charge worse than "sedition," were sentenced to something worse than death: their entrails were to be cut out and burned in front of their eyes just before they were drawn and quartered). |
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Dec 22, 1792 |
Whigs form a group, "Friends of the Liberty of the Press," for the purpose of defending free speech against the attack of the Reevites and other Loyalist Associations. |
*Whig Party |
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1793 |
Anna Laetitia Barbauld contributes to Evenings at Home, by John Aikin, published in January. |
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1793 |
The Terror: Terrorism in France, Alarmism in England as French Revolution intensifies. |
*French Revolution |
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1793 |
French Revolution: internal factionalizing of the revolutionary movement (inciting the Terror), uprisings, and counter-revolutionary revolts. Girondins fall to the militaristic Jacobin faction headed by Jean-Paul Marat, Georges Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, the last two soon to become opponents. Feudal rights abolished without compensation to former aristocracy (aristocrats, like the clergy before them, lose their property). |
*French Revolution |
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1793 |
William Wilberforce's second bill for abolition passed by Commons but defeated by Lords. Commons narrowly rejects motions to reintroduce general abolition and to abolish the British foreign slave trade. A compromise is forged by slavery advocate Sir William Dundas, at the behest of Prime Minister Pitt, providing for gradual abolition by January 1, 1796. It passes 230 to 85--but fails later. Decline of public agitation and abolition society activity. Britain begins campaign to capture the French slave islands. Tobago and Cape Nicolas-Mole on St. Domingue are occupied. |
*Abolition
*France |