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On this Day 16/4/1520: Rioting in Toledo begins comuneros revolt
The political situation in Spain in the early sixteenth century was extremely complicated. Although officially unified under King Charles I, Aragon and Castile very much viewed themselves as separate...
View ArticleOn this day 5/5/1789: ‘Estates-General’ convened in pre-revolutionary France
Pre-revolutionary France was a country enveloped by crisis. Internal barriers, tariffs and trade restrictions hampered economic growth, much to the anger of the nascent bourgeoisie. Politically, power...
View ArticleOn this day 10/6/1381: Rebels secure the principal towns of Essex and Kent...
The South-East of England was a political tinderbox in the summer of 1381. The most economically developed part of England had seen something of a shift socially and economically in the late middle...
View ArticleOn this day 15/6/1381: The ‘English Peasants’ Revolt’ in London is defeated
The rebel armies of Essex and Kent arrived at Blackheath, just outside London, on 12 June where they made camp. They were estimated to number some 100000 in total. Both groups arrived at roughly the...
View ArticleOn This Day 27/7/1794: The Coup of 9 Thermidor
On 27 July 1794, 9 Thermidor Year II by the revolutionary calendar, the most radical period of the French Revolution was brought to an end by the arrest of Maximilien Robespierre, Louis Antoine de...
View ArticleOn this day 16/8/1819: The Peterloo Massacre
Fearing revolution the British state carried out a brutal atrocity against a peaceful pro-democracy demonstration 194 years ago today. Some 60-80000 people had gathered in St Peter’s Field, Manchester,...
View ArticleOn this day 20/9/1792: The Battle of Valmy
The Battle of Valmy effectively saved the French Revolution from a bloody and reactionary premature end. A viciously counter-revolutionary Prussian army was advancing into France threatening...
View ArticleOn this day 5/10/1789: The Women’s March on Versailles
Following the euphoria of the storming of the Bastille and the establishment of the National Assembly in the Summer of 1789 the French Revolution stalled in the Autumn as the Assembly and King Louis...
View ArticleOn this day 4/11/1839: The Newport Rising
The Newport Rising was the last large scale armed uprising in the history of mainland Britain. Several thousand (estimates of the exact numbers vary widely) marched on Newport, South Wales from the...
View ArticleNelson Mandela: 1918-2013
The onetime Socialist, Revolutionary and African Nationalist, who became the first ‘post-apartheid’ president of South Africa has died. He was the most prominent leader of the African National Congress...
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