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| 1789 |
| | | A left-wing political club begins to meet in a Jacobin convent in Paris, thus becoming known as the Jacobins | |
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| 1789 |
| | | The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a slave captured as a child in Africa, becomes a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic | |
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| 1789 |
| | | Alexander Mackenzie explores by canoe from central Canada through the Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean | |
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| 1789 |
| | | Delegates of the Third Estate swear an oath in a tennis court at Versailles, pledging themselves not to disperse until France has a constitution | |
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| 1789 |
| | | The painter Jacques-Louis David sketches the events in the Versailles tennis court | |
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| 1789 |
| | | Robert Tunstall builds a replacement stone bridge at Kew, designed by James Paine. It is opened by King George III driving over ‘with a great concourse of carriages’ | |
|  | The second Kew Bridge under construction
Chiswick Local Studies Library
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| 1789 |
| | | An excited Paris mob liberates the seven prisoners held in the forbidding fortress of the Bastille | |
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| 1789 |
| | | US painter and author William Dunlap has great success with his comedy The Father; or, American Shandyism | |
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| 1789 |
| | | Parisians force their way into the palace at Versailles and insist on Louis XVI and his royal family accompanying them back to Paris | |
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| 1789 |
| | | French doctor Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposes a decapitation machine as a more humane form of capital punishment | |
|  | Marie Antoinette kneeling before the guillotine, 1793
Wellcome Library, London
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