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Period

Age of Revolutions

1763–1848 CE

The Age of Revolutions describes the connected political and military upheavals that reshaped Europe and the Atlantic world from the later eighteenth century into the nineteenth. It includes the American and French Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the independence struggles of Spanish America.

These movements shared arguments about sovereignty, representation, slavery, empire and citizenship, but produced very different states and social settlements. Revolutionary warfare also displaced people, destroyed older institutions and carried political conflict across oceans.

Related people for Age of Revolutions

Aaron Burr1756–1836 Alexander Dalrymple1737–1808 Alexander Hamilton1757–1804 Alexander I of Russia1777–1825 André Masséna1758–1817 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1769–1852 Beau Brummell1778–1840 Bernard Dubourdieu1773–1811 Bernard Montgomery1887–1976 Bernardo O’Higgins1778–1842 Carl von Clausewitz1780–1831 Catherine Blake1762–1831 Catherine the Great1729–1796 Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois1761–1848 Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord1754–1838 Charles Arbuthnot1767–1850 Charles James Fox1749–1806 Charles XIV John of Sweden1763–1844 Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood1748–1810 Dingane kaSenzangakhona1795–1840 Edward Codrington1770–1851 Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth1757–1833 Erwin Rommel1891–1944 Francisco de Miranda1750–1816 Franz Joseph I of Austria1830–1916 Frederick VI of Denmark1768–1839 George III1738–1820 George IV of the United Kingdom1762–1830 Georges Danton1759–1794 George Washington1732–1799 Giacomo Casanova1725–1798 Giuseppe Garibaldi1807–1882 Hans Ernst Karl von Zieten1770–1848 Henry Lambertdied 1813 Henry Sheehy Keating1775–1847 Home Riggs Popham1762–1820 Horatio Nelson1758–1805 Izabela Czartoryska1746–1835 James Lawrence1781–1813 James Macdonnell1781–1857 James Madison1751–1836 Jane Austen1775–1817 Jean-de-Dieu Soult1769–1851 Jean-Jacques Dessalines1758–1806 Jean-Paul Marat1743–1793 Jean Joseph Amable Humbert1767–1823 Jean Maximilien Lamarque1770–1832 John Adams1735–1826 John Moore1761–1809 Joséphine de Beauharnais1763–1814 Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith1798–1872 Klemens von Metternich1773–1859 Lachlan Macquarie1762–1824 Lord Byron1788–1824 Lord Edward FitzGerald1763–1798 Louis-Philippe I1773–1850 Louis XIV1638–1715 Louis XVIII of France1755–1824 Louis XVI of France1754–1793 Louis XV of France1710–1774 Luisa Casati1881–1957 Manuel Lisa1772–1820 Marie Antoinette1755–1793 Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma1791–1847 Marie Tussaud1761–1850 Maximilien Robespierre1758–1794 Meriwether Lewis1774–1809 Michel Ney1769–1815 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla1753–1811 Miguel I of Portugal1802–1866 Mikhail Kutuzov1747–1813 Mzilikazic. 1790–1868 Napoleon1769–1821 Napoleon III1808–1873 Otto von Bismarck1815–1898 Pauline Bonaparte1780–1825 Pedro I of Brazil1798–1834 Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822 Philip Astley1742–1814 Philip Broke1776–1841 Philippe Curtius1737–1794 Pierre-Charles Villeneuve1763–1806 Pyotr Bagration1765–1812 Richard Brinsley Sheridan1751–1816 Robert Clive1725–1774 Robert Corbetd. 1810 Robert Fulton1765–1815 Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh1769–1822 Robert Townsend Farquhar1776–1830 Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill1772–1842 Shaka1787–1828 Simón Bolívar1783–1830 Sir Albemarle Bertie, 1st Baronet1755–1824 Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet1757–1829 Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet1787–1860 Sir Sidney Smith1764–1840 Stanisław August Poniatowski1732–1798 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald1775–1860 Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch1748–1843 Thomas Hurd1747–1823 Thomas Paine1737–1809 Thomas Stamford Raffles1781–1826 Toussaint Louverturec. 1743–1803 Tusun Pasha1794–1816 Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885 Vladimir Lenin1870–1924 Wilhelm II1859–1941 William Bainbridge1774–1833 William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford1768–1854 William Blake1757–1827 William Bligh1754–1817 William Howe de Lancey1778–1815 William II of the Netherlands1792–1849 William Pitt the Younger1759–1806 William Wordsworth1770–1850 Wolfe Tone1763–1798

Series

Series about Age of Revolutions (2 series)

Storm of War in Order

by Timothy Ashby 2 books 4.9(7)

The Storm of War series follows Alexander ‘Chart’ Charteris, a mixed-race British officer whose military career unfolds across the Atlantic world during the age of revolution. Beginning with Fédon’s Rebellion in Grenada in the 1790s, the novels place Chart between Britain, the Caribbean and competing revolutionary movements, where…

Crowning Mercy in Order

by Bernard Cornwell 2 books 4.3(7,136)

The Crowning Mercy novels follow the Lazender family through two periods of upheaval in European history. A Crowning Mercy is set amid the religious and political violence of the English Civil War, when a young woman’s inheritance draws her into a contest involving family loyalty, faith and royalist…

Books

30 Best Novels About the Age of Revolutions

Non-Fiction

30 Best Non-Fiction Books About the Age of Revolutions

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