RevolutionDB
114 documented revolutions and revolutionary waves, from ancient Athens to the Arab Spring. Causes, events, leaders, outcomes, and long-term consequences, browse by type, region, and era.
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French Revolution
Fiscal crisis, Enlightenment ideas, and bread shortages forced Louis XVI to summon the Estates-General in 1789. The Third Estate d...
American Revolution
Disputes over taxation and representation after the Seven Years War radicalized colonial politics from Boston to Virginia. Fightin...
Haitian Revolution
Saint-Domingue was the richest colony on earth, its plantations worked by half a million enslaved Africans. The ceremony at Bois C...
October Revolution
Lenin returned from exile in April 1917 with his April Theses demanding all power to the soviets and rejection of the war. After t...
Mexican Revolution
Decades of Porfirian modernization had dispossessed peasant communities and concentrated land and wealth. Francisco Madero opposit...
Cuban Revolution
Castro attacked the Moncada barracks in 1953, turned his trial into a political platform, and after exile in Mexico landed in Dece...
Iranian Revolution
The shah white revolution had uprooted villages, enriched a narrow elite, and alienated the clergy, while the SAVAK secret police ...
Velvet Revolution
The 17 November police crackdown on a student march, staged on the fiftieth anniversary of a Nazi-era student martyrdom, ignited n...
Euromaidan
Yanukovych refusal to sign the EU association agreement on 21 November 2013 brought students to the Maidan in Kiev. The 30 Novembe...