|
1766 |
Olaudah Equiano buys his freedom from his master |
|
1772 |
Lord Mansfield rules slavery unlawful in England |
|
1772 |
Thomas Paine arrives in Philadelphia |
|
1773 |
Filippo Mazzei comes to America from Tuscany by way of London and takes up residence next door to Thomas Jefferson |
|
1773 |
Etta Palm d’Aelders comes to Paris from the United Provinces |
|
1774 |
Thomas Paine arrives in Philadelphia from London |
|
1774 |
First (American) Continental Congress |
|
1775 |
Battles of Lexington and Concord |
|
1775 |
Dunmore Proclamation |
|
1775 |
Joan Derk van der Capellen publishes his advice to the British on America |
|
1776 |
Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense |
|
1776 |
Richard Price publishes Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty |
|
1776 |
Marquis de Condorcet publishes On the Influence of the American Revolution on Europe and Beyond |
|
1776 |
Betje Wolff publishes Holland in ‘t jaar MMCCCCXL |
|
1776 |
American Declaration of Independence |
|
1776 |
Jamaican slave plot uncovered |
|
1777 |
William Carmichael brings Common Sense to Charles Dumas in United Provinces |
|
1778 |
France enters American Revolution |
|
1778 |
François Barbé-Marbois and Louis Otto arrive with the French delegation in America |
|
1778 |
David George escapes slavery |
|
1779 |
St. John de Crèvecoeur leaves New York for France |
|
1779 |
Elkanah Watson of Connecticut arrives in France |
|
1779 |
John Paul Jones drops anchor in Texel in the United Provinces |
|
1779 |
Six hundred free men of color arrive from Saint-Domingue to fight for the Americans under French Admiral d’Estaing |
|
1780 |
London Society for Constitutional Information organized |
|
1780 |
Nancy Shippen marries Henry Livingston |
|
1780 |
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War |
|
1781 |
Joan Derk van der Capellen publishes To the People of the Netherlands |
|
1781 |
Genevans storm municipal arsenal |
|
1782 |
Betje Wolff and Aagje Deken publish Sara Burgerhart |
|
1782 |
América Francès de Crèvecoeur and her brother are rescued from their burned out farmhouse |
|
1782 |
St. John de Crèvecoeur publishes Letters from an American Farmer |
|
1782 |
British evacuate five thousand blacks from Charleston |
|
1782 |
Black Loyalists sail to Nova Scotia |
|
1782 |
Joel and Ruth Barlow are married |
|
1782 |
Revolution in Geneva |
|
1782 |
Jacques-Pierre Brissot writes The Philadelphian in Geneva |
|
1783 |
Nancy Shippen Livingston leaves her husband |
|
1783 |
Black Loyalists arrive in Nova Scotia |
|
1784 |
Elkanah Watson returns to New York |
|
1784 |
Thomas Jefferson arrives in Paris |
|
1784 |
St. John de Crèvecoeur is reunited with his children in Boston |
|
1785 |
Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia |
|
1785 |
Louis Otto is reassigned to Philadelphia as French chargé d’affaires |
|
1785 |
William Short meets the duchesse de la Rochefoucauld |
|
1786 |
Dutch Patriots take control of large cities in the United Provinces |
|
1787 |
Belgian Estates protest against Austrian emperor Joseph II’s reforms |
|
1787 |
Charles Lambert d’Outrepont publishes Consideration on the Constitution |
|
1787 |
Gerrit Paape flees United Provinces |
|
1787 |
Quobna Ottabah Cugoano publishes his attack on the slave trade |
|
1787 |
Sierra Leone settlers leave London |
|
1787 |
Society Instituted for Effecting Abolition of the Slave Trade in London is organized |
|
1787 |
Prussians crush Dutch Patriot Revolution, allowing return of Willem V |
|
1788 |
Anne d’Yve writes To the Nation in Brussels |
|
1788 |
Marquis de Condorcet writes Letters of a Citizen of the United States |
|
1788 |
Mary Wollstonecraft joins the staff of the Analytical Review |
|
1788 |
Mary Wollstonecraft publishes Mary |
|
1788 |
Jacques-Pierre Brissot travels through America |
|
1788 |
Abolitionists petition British Parliament |
|
1788 |
Founding of Society of the Friends of the Blacks in Paris |
|
1788 |
Joel Barlow travels to Paris |
|
1789 |
Revolution in Geneva |
|
1789 |
Olaudah Equiano publishes The Interesting Narrative |
|
1789 |
Granville Town burned to the ground |
|
1789 |
Jacobin society organized in Paris |
|
1789 |
Brabant Revolution and defeat of the Austrian army |
|
1789 |
Vincent Ogé addresses abolitionists in Paris |
|
1789 |
Nancy Shippen Livingston unsuccessfully petitions for divorce |
|
1789 |
French Estates General is convened in Versailles; organization of the National Assembly |
|
1789 |
Storming of the Bastille |
|
1789 |
Declaration of the Rights of Man decreed in France |
|
1789 |
Thomas Clarkson visits Paris |
|
1789 |
Thomas Jefferson returns to America from Paris |
|
1790 |
Louis Otto and América Francès de Crèvecoeur marry |
|
1790 |
Dutch revolutionary Etta Palm d’Aelders joins Cercle Social in Paris |
|
1790 |
Helen Maria Williams travels to Paris |
|
1790 |
Helen Maria Williams publishes first volume of memoirs |
|
1790 |
Vincent Ogé leads revolt in Saint-Domingue |
|
1790 |
Léopard seized by delegates from Saint Marc to sail for France |
|
1791 |
Anna Maria Falconbridge and her husband arrive in Sierra Leone |
|
1791 |
Brissot publishes journal of his American travels |
|
1791 |
New Polish constitution |
|
1791 |
Republican Club meets in Paris |
|
1791 |
Thomas Paine publishes Rights of Man |
|
1791 |
Society of the Friends of the Constitution organizes in Warsaw |
|
1791 |
Free citizens of color in French colonies are granted citizenship |
|
1791 |
French king attempts to flee, is caught at border at Varennes and returned to Paris |
|
1791 |
Champs de Mars massacre in Paris |
|
1791 |
Slave insurrection in Saint-Domingue |
|
1791 |
John Frederick, son of Temne ruler, travels to London |
|
1791 |
John Clarkson arrives in Nova Scotia to recruit settlers for Sierra Leone |
|
1792 |
Louis and Fanny Otto leave for France |
|
1792 |
Mary Wollstonecraft publishes Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
|
1792 |
Fifteen ships sail from Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone |
|
1792 |
London Corresponding Society is organized |
|
1792 |
William Short is named minister resident in The Hague |
|
1792 |
France declares war on Austria |
|
1792 |
Russians invade Poland |
|
1792 |
Prussia declares war on France |
|
1792 |
Commissioners Léger Félicité Sonthonax, Jean Antoine Ailhaud, and Étienne Polverel go to Saint-Domingue |
|
1792 |
Crowds storm the Tuileries and French monarchy is overthrown |
|
1792 |
Royalists take Guadeloupe |
|
1792 |
Genevan citizens are called to arms as French armies camp outside their gates |
|
1792 |
French defeat Prussians at Valmy |
|
1792 |
Republic is declared in France |
|
1792 |
Joel Barlow and John Frost address National Convention |
|
1792 |
French Decree offers aid to neighbors fighting tyranny |
|
1792 |
Scottish Convention |
|
1792 |
Mary Wollstonecraft leaves England for France |
|
1793 |
French king is executed |
|
1793 |
Prussians invade Poland |
|
1793 |
Ruth Barlow comes to Paris to join her husband |
|
1793 |
French Committee of Public Safety created |
|
1793 |
Insurrection in Guadeloupe |
|
1793 |
French Constitution is accepted by National Constitution |
|
1793 |
Sonthonax frees slaves in Saint-Domingue in the North Province |
|
1793 |
Boston King and David George travel to England from Sierra Leone |
|
1794 |
Anna Falconbridge publishes her narrative |
|
1794 |
William Jackson is sent by the French to Ireland |
|
1794 |
Tricolor delegation travels from Saint-Domingue to France |
|
1794 |
French abolish slavery |
|
1794 |
British capture Martinique and Guadeloupe |
|
1794 |
Victor Hugues arrives in Guadeloupe |
|
1794 |
French assault on Freetown |
|
1794 |
Polish Revolution led by Kościuszko, crushed by Russians and Prussians |
|
1794 |
French invade the United Provinces |
|
1795 |
Declaration of Batavian Republic; Willem V retreats to England |
|
1795 |
Treaty of Basel |
|
1795 |
Belgian provinces are annexed to France |
|
1796 |
Boston King publishes his journal |
|
1796 |
Wolfe Tone arrives in Paris |
|
1796 |
Louis and Fanny Otto and St. John de Crèvecoeur move to farm near Meaux |
|
1796 |
Mary Hays publishes Memoirs of Emma Courtney |
|
1796 |
Joel Barlow goes on mission to Algeria |
|
1796 |
Napoléon Bonaparte assumes command of Army of Italy |
|
1796 |
Wolfe Tone joins General Lazare Hoche to invade Ireland |
|
1797 |
Thaddeus Kościuszko released from Russian prison |
|
1797 |
Creation of Cispadane Republic |
|
1797 |
Creation of Cisalpine Republic |
|
1797 |
Toussaint Louverture orders Sonthonax back to France |
|
1797 |
Thaddeus Kościuszko returns to America |
|
1797 |
Fructidor Coup |
|
1797 |
Peace of Campo Formio |
|
1798 |
William Godwin publishes Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft |
|
1798 |
Mary Hays publishes Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in behalf of Women |
|
1798 |
Lieve van Ollefen publishes The Revolutionary Household |
|
1798 |
Louis Otto is posted to Berlin |
|
1798 |
Roman Republic is established |
|
1798 |
Helvetic Republic is established |
|
1798 |
Thaddeus Kościuszko returns to Paris |
|
1798 |
General Humbert sails with Army of Ireland |
|
1798 |
Victor Hugues is removed from Guadeloupe |
|
1799 |
Parthenopean Republic established |
|
1799 |
Austria declares War of the Second Coalition |
|
1799 |
Prairial coup in Paris |
|
1800 |
Louis and Fanny Otto posted to London |
|
1800 |
Maroons from Jamaica suppress Freetown uprising |
|
1802 |
Thomas Paine returns to America |
|
1802 |
LeClerc to Saint-Domingue |
|
1803 |
Louverture to French prison |
|
1804 |
Declaration of Independence of Haiti |