This quote from the book of Civilisation p.296
"The moving fact about the early revolution is that men's belief in a new world was so concrete and sharp that they could decide to change the calendar - making the year 1792 Year one, and renameing the months. The change of years was a nuisance, but the new names of the months - Ventose, thermidor, Brumaire and so forth, the windy one, the hot one, the misty one - are poetical, and I wish they had survived. They express the love of nature which had become so closely entwined with the revolution. The same desire to return to nature affected women's fashions. All the artificial framework of the eighteenth century is thrown away, and the dresses follow the lines of the body with gracful simplicity [204]. No more high, powdered wigs, but flowing locks, with a simple bandeau. Madame Recamier, the most famous and inaccessible beauty of the time, posed for David with naked feet.

A more formidable undertaking was to replace Christianity by a religion of nature. It sometimes went rather too far: for example, it was proposed to pull down Chartres Cathedral and build in its place a temple of wisdom. There was a good deal of profanation and blasphemy, and a vast amount of destruction:..."

p.298
"But none have kicked back sooner and harder than the revolutionary fervour of 1792; because in September there took place the first of those massacres by which, alas, the revolution is chiefly remembered. No one has ever explained, in historical terms, the September Massacres, and perhaps; in the end the old-fashioned explanation is correct, that it was a kind of communal sadism. It was a pogrom - a phenomenon with which we have since become familiar. and it was given fresh impetus by another well-known emotion - mass panic. In July 1792 the committee of Public Safety had officially proclaimede La patrie en damger - 'the country in peril'; which was followed by the usual corollary: Ils nous ont trahis - 'there are traitors among us'. We know what that means. How many innocent German governesses and art-historians suffered in our last two wars, if not by execution, then by extradition and drowning on the way to Canada. In 1792 France was in danger and there really were traitors, starting with the King and Queen,..."

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Black Death - leaves France with a population of 2000.

1558-1603

Elizabeth I. Anglican church still used vestments, candles, incense, and music in church services. Catholics thought it was too little and Protestants thought it was too much ritual.

1580-1631

John Smith and

1607

Pocahontas

1611

King James version of the Bible

1720

innoculation for smallpox which has just hit Boston

1775-1783

the revolutionary war

1776

Declairation of Independance

1783

First Hot Air Balloon Flight with human pilot

1787

Constitution

1789

June The liberal bourgeois phase of the French revolution came to a climax

1789

9 out of 10 Americans are engaged in farming and food production

1790

Report on Public Credit - aims to expand financial reach of federal government and reduce power of the states

1792

France "...the love of nature which had become so closely entwined with the revolution." "A more formidable undertaking was to replace Christianity by a religion of nature."p.296

1792

July La patrie en danger. Ils nous ont trahis.

1792

Sept The Austrian and Prussian advance was halted at Valmy, Paris (1)

1793

France "The king must die," said the lawyer Maximilien Robespierre, "so that the state may live." (1)

1794

July France The last of the ones that advocated the ruling house should be guillotined - were guillotined themselves. The last one to go was Robespierre. (1)

1798

French General Napoleon Bonaparte

1810

An electro-chemical telegraph is constructed in Germany. (3)

1819

Indian Civilization Act

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title:"Civilisation" author:Clark, Kenneth 
1969 Harper & Row