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för 3 dagar sedan · The French Revolutionary Wars ( French: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and several other countries.
- 20 April 1792 – 27 March 1802, (9 years, 11 months, and 5 days)
för 2 dagar sedan · Muhammad ibn ῾Abd al-Wahhab (1703–1792), was a scholar and Hanbali jurist who called for a return to the fundamental sources of Islamic revelation, the Qur᾽an and sunna (example of Muhammad) for direct interpretation, resulting in decreased attention to and reliance upon medieval interpretations of these sources.
4 apr. 2024 · Maximilien Robespierre (born May 6, 1758, Arras, France—died July 28, 1794, Paris) was a radical Jacobin leader and one of the principal figures in the French Revolution.
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- Who was Maximilien Robespierre?Maximilien Robespierre was a radical democrat and key figure in the French Revolution of 1789. Robespierre briefly presided over the influential Ja...
- How did Maximilien Robespierre come to power?Maximilien Robespierre began his political career in 1789, when he was elected to represent the Third Estate of Artois in the pre-Revolutionary Est...
- What is Maximilien Robespierre known for?Maximilien Robespierre came to dominate the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror took place between September...
- When and how did Maximilien Robespierre die?Maximilien Robespierre lost his head—literally. On July 27, 1794, Robespierre and a number of his followers were arrested at the Hôtel de Ville in...
16 apr. 2024 · Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (born 1703, ʿUyaynah, Arabia [now in Saudi Arabia]—died 1792, Al-Dirʿiyyah) was a theologian and founder of the Wahhābī movement, which attempted a return to the principles of Islam as practiced by its early forebears ( salaf ).
för 3 dagar sedan · Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies.
4 apr. 2024 · George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (baptized Feb. 13, 1718, London, Eng.—died May 24, 1792, London) was an English admiral who won several important naval battles against French, Spanish, and Dutch forces.
för 2 dagar sedan · The Revolutionary government followed up on the dispersed Carmelites in Compiègne and found 16 of them still observing their religious life of prayer. On June 22, 1792, they were arrested and imprisoned in a former Visitation convent where they lived in community until they were taken to prison in Paris.
