Atlantic Revolutions
The Atlantic Revolutions (22 March 1765 – 4 December 1838) were numerous revolutions in the Atlantic World in the late 18th and early 19th century. Following the Age of Enlightenment, ideas critical of absolutist monarchies began to spread. A revolutionary wave soon occurred, with the aim of ending monarchical rule, emphasizing the ideals of the Enlightenment, and spreading liberalism.
Atlantic Revolutions
22 March 1765 – 4 December 1838
(73 years, 8 months, 1 week and 5 days)
Multiple revolutions and wars across the Atlantic world, including the American Revolutionary War, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the Latin American wars of independence
Other revolutions in West Africa emphasized forms of Islam that were egalitarian in comparison to traditional forms.[1]
In 1755, early signs of governmental changes occurred with the formation of the Corsican Republic and Pontiac's War. The largest of these early revolutions was the American Revolution beginning in 1765, which founded the United States of America. The American Revolution inspired other movements, including the French Revolution in 1789 and the Haitian Revolution in 1791. These revolutions were based on the equivocation of personal freedom with the right to own property — a concept spread by Edmund Burke — and on the equality of all men, an idea expressed in constitutions written as a result of these revolutions.
(1755–1769)
Corsican Revolution
(1763–1766)
Pontiac's War
(1765–1783)
American Revolution
(1782)
Geneva Revolution
(1785–1795)
Northwest Indian War
(1785)
Revolt of Dutch Patriots
(1789–1799)
French Revolution
(1789–1795)
Liège Revolution
(1790)
Brabant Revolution
(1791–1804)
Haitian Revolution
In the , minor slave revolts occurred in 1790, 1823 and 1830.
British Virgin Islands
(1804–1835)
Serbian Revolution
Stäfner Handel in , Switzerland (1794–1795)
Canton of Zürich
(1795)
Batavian Revolution
(1795)
Slave revolt in Curaçao
Bush War, Saint Lucia (1795)
Grenada (1796)
Fédon's rebellion
Jamaica (1795–1796)
Second Maroon War
Saint Vincent (1795–1797)
Second Carib War
(1797)
Scottish Rebellion
(1798)
United Irish Rebellion
(1798)
Helvetic Revolution
(1799)
Altamuran Revolution
[1]
(1811, Louisiana)
1811 German Coast uprising
(1814)
Norwegian War of Independence
(1820, Portugal)
Liberal Revolution of 1820
(1837–1838)
Upper and Lower Canada Rebellions
Latin American wars of independence
Minas Conspiracy
Various connecting threads among these varied uprisings include a concern for the "Rights of Man" and freedom of the individual; an idea (often predicated on John Locke or Jean-Jacques Rousseau) of popular sovereignty; belief in a "social contract", which in turn was often codified in written constitutions; a certain complex of religious convictions often associated with deism and characterized by veneration of reason; abhorrence of feudalism and often of monarchy itself. The Atlantic Revolutions also had many shared symbols, including the name "Patriot" used by so many revolutionary groups; the slogan of "Liberty"; the liberty cap; Lady Liberty or Marianne; the tree of liberty or liberty pole, and so on.
(United States)
George Washington
(United States)
John Adams
(United States)
Thomas Jefferson
(United States)
Alexander Hamilton
(United States)
Benjamin Franklin
(North America)
Sons of Liberty
(France)
Maximilien Robespierre
(France and North America)
Marquis de Lafayette
(France)
Georges Danton
(France and most of Europe)
Napoleon Bonaparte
(France, 1789–1794)
Jacobin Club
(France)
Société des Amis des Noirs
(Netherlands)
Patriots
(Great Britain and North America)
Thomas Paine
(Great Britain, 1792-)
Society of the Friends of the People
(Great Britain)
London Corresponding Society
(Scotland)
Society of the United Scotsmen
(Great Britain)
Nore mutiny
Society of the United Englishmen
(Ireland)
Wolfe Tone
(Ireland, 1791–1804)
Society of United Irishmen
Lautaro Lodge
(Corsica)
Pasquale Paoli
(West Africa)
Usman Dan Fodio
(German Coast)
Charles Deslondes
Francisco de Miranda
(Canada)
Louis-Joseph Papineau
(Canada)
William Lyon Mackenzie
(Canada)
Samuel Lount
(Canada, United Kingdom)
John Lambton 1st Earl of Durham
(Haiti)
Toussaint Louverture
(Brazil, 1789)
Inconfidência Mineira
(Brazil, 1798)
Conjuração baiana
(Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia)
Simón Bolívar
(Argentina, Chile, Peru)
José de San Martín
(Uruguay, Argentina)
José Gervasio Artigas
(Mexico)
José María Morelos
(Mexico)
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
(Mexico)
Agustín de Iturbide
(Mexico)
Vicente Guerrero
(Iceland)
Jørgen Jørgensen
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