Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots. By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn't. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting ...

1789 Growth and Income Fund earns an Average Process Pillar rating. The predominant contributor to the rating is the firm's retention rate of the firm's portfolio managers, which is 91% over the ...

Pérez-Crespo, Carlos 2024. Sieyès’s idea of constituent power: a moderate and illiberal idea of sovereignty in the French revolution. History of European Ideas, p. 1.

1789. The New York native held the title until resigning in 1795, among the shortest tenures for the prestigious lifetime appointment. Only 16 other people have held the title of Supreme Court ...

It didn’t come in 1788, when the Constitution was ratified, or in 1789, when George Washington took office as the United States’ first president. According to Harry R. Rubenstein, an emeritus ...

The first recorded attempt at creating a system to organise the elements was when Antoine Lavoisier published his table of elements in 1789. In 'Traite Elementaire de Chimie', Lavoisier listed 33 ...

In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution to France’s financial problems. It brought together 1200 delegates from the clergy (the First ...

Welcome to the supplementary website for the second edition of 'Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789'. Here you will be able to access interactive content that is designed to enhance the learning experience ...