🌀 Big Spiral History 🟣 Space 16

Space 16: The Age of Revolutions

1750–1799: the world turns upside down

1750 – 1799

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Space 16: The Age of Revolutions

🟣 1750–1799: the world turns upside down · 1750 – 1799

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🟣 Dot 1 · 1750s

1754 According to his own account, the young Olaudah Equiano is kidnapped in Africa, shipped across the Atlantic, and sold into slavery. His memoir will later help bring down the British slave trade.

📍 Address: Space 16 · Dot 1 (1754)

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🟣 Dot 2 · 1760s

1763 Voltaire stands against the government of France to clear the name of a man who had been tortured to death for a crime he did not commit.

📍 Address: Space 16 · Dot 2 (1763)

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🟣 Dot 3 · 1770s

1776 Writing his “Declaration” late into the night, Thomas Jefferson justifies a rebellion against Britain with a dangerous idea: all people are created equal and have rights, and may overthrow governments that trample them.

📍 Address: Space 16 · Dot 3 (1776)

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🟣 Dot 4 · 1780s

1788 Britain sends hundreds of convicts to found a colony in Australia.

📍 Address: Space 16 · Dot 4 (1788)

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1789 Furious over the price of bread and carrying kitchen knives, thousands of women break into Versailles, forcing the King and Queen into a carriage for the nine-hour procession back to Paris.

📍 Address: Space 16 · Dot 4 (1789)

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🟣 Dot 5 · 1790s

1791 In French-controlled Haiti, Toussaint Louverture turns a massive slave uprising into a revolution that will defeat slavery and European rule.

📍 Address: Space 16 · Dot 5 (1791)

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1793 France’s revolutionaries put Louis XVI on trial, condemn him as a traitor to the people, and send their king to the guillotine.

📍 Address: Space 16 · Dot 5 (1793)

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