18th-century revolutions

revolution in France from 1789 to 1799

revolution establishing the United States of America

1791 slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue

The '''''' (; ) were the common people of the lower classes in late 18th-century France, a great many of whom became radical and militant partisans of the French Revolution in response to their poor quality of life under the . The word , which is opposed to "aristocrat", seems to have been used for the first time on 28 February 1791 by Jean-Bernard Gauthier de Murnan in a derogatory sense, speaking about a " army". The word came into vogue during the demonstration of 20 June 1792.

revolutionary wave in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

increase in agricultural production in Britain in mid-17th and late 19th centuries

armed insurrection that occurred in the Austrian Netherlands

period between the Dutch and Batavian Republics

historic period

conflict

Vietnamese military conflicts