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    The Society of 1789 (French: Club de 1789), or the Patriotic Society of 1789 (French: Société patriotique de 1789), was a political club of the French...
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    Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November...
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    The Estates General of 1789 (French: États Généraux de 1789) was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate)...
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  • related to 1789. 1789 (MDCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian...
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    together are sometimes called Robespierrists). Society of 1789 (also known as the Patriotic Society of 1789): club of moderate conservative constitutional monarchists...
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    Judiciary Act of 1789 (ch. 20, 1 Stat. 73) was a United States federal statute enacted on September 24, 1789, during the first session of the First United...
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    of the French Revolution in 1789 caused political strains between members of the society, but it was the Priestley riots of 1791 in Birmingham itself that...
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    Wednesday, January 7, 1789, under the new Constitution ratified that same year. George Washington was unanimously elected for the first of his two terms as...
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    constituent assembly in the Kingdom of France formed from the National Assembly on 9 July 1789 during the first stages of the French Revolution. It dissolved...
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  • This is a list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1789. James Adair (c.1743–1798), Irish Sergeant-at-Law Abraham Bennet (1749–1799), clergyman...
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    The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen de 1789), set by France's National Constituent...
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  • revolutionary the period 1789 to 1848 was, and how it transformed human society and created our modern world as we know it. The two engines of this profound revolution...
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    history of the United States from 1776 to 1789 was marked by the nation's transition from the American Revolutionary War to the establishment of a novel...
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    the Minister of Finance, Brienne, sets May 5, 1789, for a meeting of the Estates General, an assembly of the nobility, clergy, and commoners (the Third...
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    Events from the year 1789 in Canada. Monarch: George III Governor of the Canadas: Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas...
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    Chevalier de Saint-Georges (category Free people of color)
    Saint-Georges was more a moderate democrat, influenced by the ideas of the Patriotic Society of 1789. In late June 1790, Philippe Égalité, dubbed "The Red Duke"...
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    French Wars of Religion 1559–98. Routledge. ISBN 9781408228197. Mousnier, Roland; The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy 1598–1789, Volume...
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    source of France's income would be lost. The sugar fields in Saint-Domingue could be taken over and land might also be lost. Society of 1789 "Club of the...
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    Between the fall of 1789 and the spring of 1790, influenza occurred extensively throughout the United States and North America more broadly. First reported...
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    Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903. Volume 2. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. Jaques, Tony (2006). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges:...
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    the night of 4 August 1789, announced, "The National Assembly abolishes the feudal system entirely." It abolished both the seigneurial rights of the Second...
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    the government of Paris from 1789 until 1795. Established in the Hôtel de Ville just after the storming of the Bastille, it consisted of 144 delegates...
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    Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies, 1789–1995 (2nd ed.). (Supreme Court Historical Society, Congressional Quarterly Books). ISBN 1-56802-126-7...
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    The history of the United States from 1789 to 1815 was marked by the nascent years of the American Republic under the new U.S. Constitution. George Washington...
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    the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, or The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, were Quakers: John Barton (1755–1789);...
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    members of the first and second estates (the clergy and the nobility), the resulting French Emigration (1789–1815) was a mass movement of thousands of Frenchmen...
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    (falsely) claims that it was "Published by Authority of the Phlebomotical Society, Cytheria, 1789." 1890, first French translation. 1895, English reprint...
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    was elected a member of the Estates General of 1789, where representatives met from the three traditional orders of French society: the clergy, the nobility...
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    colours of Paris, used on the city's coat of arms. Blue is identified with Saint Martin, red with Saint Denis. At the storming of the Bastille in 1789, the...
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  • particular significance of the year 1789 to Wales and its people. Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire...
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