Revolution Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...was extensive from 1794 to 1796 and again from 1799 to 1801 [ see *famine ], and from 1795 there were riots as new regulations for registering for the militia were put into practice. When the first Scottish Militia Act ( 1797 ) was implemented, widespread protest flared up throughout Scotland. In 1797 there were *naval mutinies in Nore and Spithead, allegedly fuelled by London Corresponding Society literature, and there was an agreed policy of subversion of the army among some cells of the United Englishmen—the English counterpart to the United...
War Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...improvised, survivalist existence of the poor. There were occasions when the collective protest of the men resembled any crowd action of the time, as a conflict of popular beliefs and expectations against the demands of social superiors. Without the backing of the Mutiny Act, volunteer officers depended on their social authority and force of personality to impose military order. The volunteers never managed to span the yawning gulf in British society between the military and the civilian. Neither the army nor the militia drew more than a tiny...
Gustav III (1746–1792) Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
...Political opposition to the regime was growing; it manifested itself at the Diet of 1786 , when the king encountered unexpected resistance, above all from the House of Nobles. In 1788 , he embarked on an unconstitutional war against Russia. The campaign had a poor start, with a mutiny among Swedish officers in Finland (then part of the Swedish kingdom) and a Danish attack against the Swedish west coast. Through an efficient propaganda campaign, however, Gustav succeeded in raising a wave of national feeling. Sweden won a decisive naval victory in 1790 over...
United societies Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...Directory in Paris to make Scotland its chief object, although he remained willing to sponsor a rising in his homeland to assist one in Ireland. United Irish agents based in Britain and on the Continent promoted sedition in the Royal Navy, playing a role in the critical *naval mutinies at Spithead and the Nore in 1797 , but were less successful in their attempts to suborn the army, militia, and fencibles. The arrests of key United Briton leaders in March/April 1798 and communications difficulties contributed to the failure of their organizations to support...
Philip II of Spain (1527–1598) Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
...in 1568 , following years of rising tensions, came to consume his attention, along with the preservation of Catholic government in neighboring France. In the Netherlands' northern provinces Calvinist rebels, led by William of Orange, established the Dutch Republic, while army mutinies resulting from Philip's financial straits and Mediterranean wars frustrated his governors, Margaret of Parma, Fernando Álvarez de Toledo (the duke of Alba), Luis de Requeséns y Zúñiga, and John of Austria. After 1578 Alessandro Farnese , duke of Parma, who succeeded John,...
Washington, George (1732–99) Reference library
Willard Sterne Randall
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment
...Virginia, peninsula, Washington and his allies quick-marched south and, in October, 1781 , trapped Cornwallis’s army and forced his surrender. As negotiations over independence dragged on for two more years in Paris, Washington prevailed in his last crisis by breaking up mutinies by officers and men, disbanding his armies when news of a peace treaty arrived. He led his victorious army into New York City in November 1783 , then rode south to Annapolis and resigned his commission to Congress. Thomas Jefferson praised “the moderation and virtue of one man”...
Flanders Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
... 1573 . 1578–1585: The Calvinist Republic at Ghent The mutinies in the “Spanish” army in the summer and autumn of 1576 obliged the “loyal” provinces to reach an understanding with the “rebel” provinces of Holland and Zeeland. Under the terms of this agreement, known as the Pacification of Ghent, signed on 8 November 1576 , only the Catholic religion could be practiced in the “loyal” provinces. But since the edicts against heresy were suspended, religious dissidents in the southern Netherlands could act more boldly, and Calvinist services were reported from ...
Victorian era: 1837 - 1901
...Technology Engineering Great Britain - from 1707 United Kingdom - from 1801 British Isles Europe Society Britain 1858 1858 The end of the Indian Mutiny is followed by brutal British retaliation Indian Mutiny (1857–58) World Encyclopedia 1 19th century Politics Protest and rebellion War European empires from 1415 Mughal empire Muslim empires Asia South Asia India (the subcontinent) Europe Empires 1858 1858 The India Act places India under the direct control of the British government, ending the rule of the East India Company India Acts A Dictionary of World...
1930s: 1930 - 1939
...Mourning Becomes Electra The Oxford Dictionary of Plays 1 20th century Performing arts Theatre Literature American literature Literature in English Drama North America United States 1931 1931 Pay cuts cause British sailors in the Atlantic fleet to mutiny at Invergordon, in Scotland's Cromarty Firth Invergordon mutiny (1931) A Dictionary of Contemporary World History 3 20th century Politics Protest and rebellion Great Britain - from 1707 United Kingdom - from 1801 Scotland British Isles Europe Britain 1931 1931 The George Washington Bridge links New York with...
1910s: 1910 - 1919
...Zimmermann, inflames US public opinion by promising Texas and more to Mexico Zimmermann Note (19 Jan. 1917) A Dictionary of Contemporary World History 3 First World War 20th century Social and domestic War Society Wars since 1900 North America United States 1917 1917 March 10 - a mutiny by soldiers, in support of Petrograd demonstrators, proves a turning point in Russia's February revolution Russian Revolution (1917) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics 3 First World War 20th century Politics Protest and rebellion War Europe Russia Wars since 1900 1917...
19th century: 1800 - 1900
...The end of the Indian Mutiny is followed by brutal British retaliation Indian Mutiny (1857–58) World Encyclopedia 1 Victorian era Politics Protest and rebellion War European empires from 1415 Mughal empire Muslim empires Asia South Asia India (the subcontinent) Europe Empires 1858 1858 Abraham Lincoln comes to national prominence through his debates on slavery with Stephen Douglas, his rival for an Illinois seat in the Senate Lincoln, Abraham (1809–65) World Encyclopedia 1 Slavery Society North America United States 1858 1858 The India Act places India under the...
20th century: 1900 - 1999
...a major but entirely forgotten civilization in the Indus valley Indus Valley civilization The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology 2 Science Asia South Asia India (the subcontinent) 1921 1921 With massive force, and huge casualties, Lenin puts an end to a naval mutiny at Kronstadt Kronstadt Mutiny (1921) A Dictionary of World History 2 Politics Communism Persecution and repression Europe Russia 1921 1921 Marie Stopes and her husband set up in London a Mothers' Clinic for Birth Control, the first of its kind in Britain Stopes, Marie Charlotte Carmichael...
