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2013 Event - Cairo, Egypt conducts a retrial of its former President Hosni Mubarak over his alleged role and complicity in the deaths of protestors during the 2011 Egyptian revolution

2013 Event - The famous painting, 'Liberty Leading the People' by Eugene Delacroix, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 is vandalized while on loan to the Louvre-Lenz museum in Lens, France

2012 Event - The editor-in-chief of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and leader of the 1960's sexual revolution, Helen Gurley Brown, dies at age 90 in New York City

2012 Event - Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison, along with his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, for being complicit in killing of demonstrators in the 2011 revolution

2012 Event - Fifteen months after President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in Egypt by a revolution, voters go to the polls for a presidential election

2012 Event - In Egypt, protesters commemorate the first anniversary of the revolution

2011 Event - As more people are detained, the online call for a 'Jasmine Revolution' continues

2011 Event - In an effort to disprove claims that he has fled the country, Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi appears on television and claims to remain head of the revolution

2011 Event - For the first time since 1979 Iranian Revolution, two ships from the Iran Navy are sent through the Suez Canal

2011 Event - In the People's Republic of China, the call for a 'Jasmine Revolution' spreads online as authorities hunt down political activists

2011 Event - In Iran, opposition leaders plan a nationwide anti-government rally in an attempt to replicate the success of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

2011 Event - Inspired by the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, nearly 5,000 of Algerians protest their regime, calling for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to be removed

2010 Event - Thirty Kurds are killed when the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution crosses the border into Iraq

2003 Death - Robert Atkins, diet doctor, Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution, dies at 72

1984 Event - "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince and Revolution peaks at #1

1983 Event - Revolution in Burkina

1978 Event - Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup

1974 Event - Marcello Caetano overthrown in Portugal (Carnation revolution)

1970 Event - Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution"

1969 Event - Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris

1969 Death - Max F Eastman, U.S. critic/essayist (Love and Revolution), dies at 86

1968 Event - E German party leader Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution"

1967 Event - Cultural Revolution in Albania

1966 Event - China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution"

1964 Event - Revolution overthrows Sultan of Zanzibar, 1 month after independence

1963 Event - Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria

1962 Event - Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5)

1958 Birthday - Steve Case, born in McLean, Virginia, co-founder and chief executive officer of America Online, AOL, founder of Revolution LLC holding, chairman of the Case Foundation

1954 Event - Algerian Revolution against French begins

1950 Birthday - Peggy Noonan, author, What I Saw at the Revolution

1944 Event - Revolution by workers and students in Guatemala

1935 Event - 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution

1934 Death - Catherine Kunstantino Breshkovsky, mother of Russian revolution, dies

1927 Event - General Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai

1925 Event - Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council

1921 Birthday - Pierre Laporte, Canada, journalist/statesman, Revolution Script

1918 Event - Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution

1917 Event - October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power

1917 Event - Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace

1917 Event - Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution

1917 Event - Russian revolution breaks out in Petrograd

1917 Event - Russian revolution breaks out

1917 Event - February revolution begins in Russia

1913 Event - Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing "2nd Chinese revolution"

1911 Event - Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz

1910 Event - Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero

1899 Birthday - Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet, La revolution surrealiste

1894 Event - Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops

1893 Birthday - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet, Ode to Revolution

1893 Birthday - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet, Ode to Revolution

1890 Event - Daughters of American Revolution forms

1890 Event - Daughters of American Revolution organizes

1889 Event - 300m Eiffel Tower officially opens, commemorates French Revolution

1885 Birthday - Veit Valentin, German/US historian, Deutsche Revolution

1875 Event - Sons of American Revolution organizes

1871 Birthday - Vernon Louis Parrington, author, Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928

1859 Birthday - Karl Bleibtreu, German author, Revolution of Literature

1840 Birthday - Flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution

1830 Event - Major-General Baron D Chasse bombs Antwerp (Belgium revolution)

1830 Event - Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe

1830 Event - Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X

1823 Death - Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53

1795 Birthday - Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian, French Revolution

1795 Event - Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution

1795 Event - Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy

1793 Event - In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins

1791 Event - Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman

1791 Event - King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution

1789 Event - Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille

1785 Death - Haym Salomon, dies in Philadelphia at 44, helped finance the revolution

1778 Event - British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution

1777 Event - British troops occupy Philadelphia during American Revolution

1776 Event - British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution

1776 Event - British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution

1775 Event - Green Mountain Boys capture Ft. Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution

1775 Event - Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"

1770 Birthday - Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian, Naples Revolution 1799

1770 Death - Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of U.S. Revolution

1760 Birthday - Camille Desmoulins, born in France, journalist, pamphleteer and revolution leader

1752 Birthday - Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution, The American Village

1741 Birthday - Benedict Arnold, general and traitor, U.S. revolution

1738 Birthday - George III, English King during American Revolution, 1760-1820

1693 Event - Haarlem people's revolution due to food shortages

1689 Event - English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution

1630 Event - Failed palace revolution against Richelieu France













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