Revolutionary Events of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Revolutionary events of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a period when challenges to monarchical authority reshaped the constitutional order of several states. An entry belongs here when its cited source describes a discrete event, such as an invasion, a siege or a popular insurrection, that took place between 1600 and 1799. The landing of William of Orange at Torbay began the events of 1688 in England, and the storming of the Bastille in 1789 became a symbol of the French Revolution. The group concerns single events, while the movement entries on the same period describe the longer processes of which they were a part.