Chronology of Bourgeoisie Revolutions in Europe

and Elsewhere
by Robert Lochhead

1158-1250 anti-imperial revolt of northern Italian cities

1200-1300 first meetings of States-General
1200-1300 communal movement for charters of freedom granted by the sovereign
1282 democratic constitution in Florence
1291-1499 Swiss cantons' war of independence against the Hapsburgs
1350-1450 Great Plague
1356-1358 States-General (led by Etienne Marcel) attempt to seize power in France; peasant insurrection of the
"Jacques"
1368 Red Turbans' peasant insurrection puts the Ming dynasty in power in China
1381 English Peasant Revolt
1419-1434 Czech Hussite revolution
1492 Caribs discover a certain Christopher Columbus
1500 Europe has 50 million people
1517 Protestant Reformation begins
1521 fall of Mexico
1525 Peasant War in Germany
1566-1609 revolution of the Low Countries
1640-1652 Catalan revolution
1618-1648 Thirty Years war
1640-1660 English revolution
1647 insurrections of Naples and Palermo
1648-1653 revolutionary crisis of the Fronde in France
1670-1671 revolt of Stenka Razin (Volga and Don)
1688 "Glorious Revolution" in England
1622-1644 uprisings linked to the fall of the Ming dynasty and rise of the Manchu
1700-1789 Enlightenment; industrial revolution in England
1689 rebellions in New York (Leisler), Boston and Maryland
1785-1787 Patriots' movement in the Low Countries
1789-1815 French revolution: 1792 proclamation of the republic; June 1793-July 1794 government of the
"Montagnard" Jacobins)
1776-1783 revolution of the United States of America
1780-1782 Peruvian revolt of Tupac Amaru, 1791-1802 revolution of Santo-Domingo (Black Jacobins)
1795-1799 Directory (Thermidorian regime)
1796-1815 Napoleonic Wars
1799-1815 dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte
1795-1806 Batavian republic
1797-1802 Cisalpine republic
1800 Europe has 200 million people
1798-1803 Helvetic republic
1808-1814 Spanish war of independence
1812 liberal constitution of Cadiz
1810-1822 independence wars of Latin America
1830 revolution in France
1830 Belgian uprising
1830 Polish insurrection
1837 Canadian rebellion
1847 The Communist Manifesto
1847 Radicals win Swiss civil war
1848 French revolution
1848-1849 German, Italian and Hungarian revolutions
1851-1864 Taiping revolt in China
1854-56 revolution in Spain
1857-1858 Sepoy revolt against the English in India
1859-1870 wars of Italian Unification
1857-1867 Mexican revolution (Reforma)
1861-1865 Civil War in the United States
1864-1876 First International
1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War
1868-1874 revolution in Spain
1867-1889 Meiji restoration in Japan
1871 Paris Commune
1905 first Russian revolution
1905-1908 Iranian revolution
1889 foundation of the Second International
1910-1920 Mexican revolution
1911 proclamation of Chinese Republic
1914-1918 World War One
1916 Irish insurrection