2014 Event A 12-page letter written by Robert R. Livingston in 1775 is found by an archivist at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, George Washington's headquarters during the Revolutionary War; the letter explains why Livingston was chosen to help draft the Declaration of Independence 2013 Event The 150th anniversary of Andres Bonifacio, a national hero and revolutionary leader in the Philippines, is commemorated 2012 Event Mexico swears in its new President, Enrique Pena Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party 2012 Event A naval base located on the Strait of Hormuz, near Bandar Langeh, is established by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps 2012 Event The winner of Mexico's presidential elections is Enrique Pena Nieto, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party 2007 Event Apple Computer unveils the revolutionary iPhone 2003 Event Iranian Revolutionary Guard military flight crashes into the Sirach Mountains, killing 275 1997 Event Carlos the Jackal, "professional revolutionary" goes on trial in Paris 1996 Death Anna Larina, revolutionary, dies at 82 1990 Event Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq 1983 Event Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council" 1982 Death Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary, murdered 1975 Event Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established 1972 Event Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam 1967 Death [Ernesto] Che Guevara [Serna], Arg/Cuban revolutionary, dies 1961 Death Patrice Lumumba, African revolutionary, murdered at 36 1958 Event Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana 1941 Death David Wijnkoop, revolutionary socialist, dies 1940 Death Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62 1940 Event Leon Trotsky, revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson, dies Aug 21 1939 Death Bela Kun, Balazs Kolozsvary, Hungarian revolutionary, dies at 53 1939 Death Nadezjda K Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies at 70 1938 Event Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet) 1936 Death Grogorij J Zinovjev, Russian revolutionary, dies 1935 Event Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms 1935 Birthday Manuel dos Santos Lima, Angolian revolutionary/poet, Pele do Diabo 1933 Death Nikolaj N Joedenitsj, Russian general/contra revolutionary, dies at 71 1932 Event Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta 1929 Event Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam 1929 Death Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary, murdered at about 28 1928 Birthday Che Guevara, Argentina/Cuba revolutionary, Cuba 1925 Birthday Patrice E. Lumumba, born in Zaire, revolutionary/1st premier of Congo 1925 Death Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58 1923 Death L Martov, Joulij O Tsederbaum, Russ revolutionary, dies at 49 1919 Event Revolutionary strike in Barcelona 1919 Death Karl Liebknecht, Marxist revolutionary, murdered at 47 1919 Death Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist revolutionary, murdered 1918 Event Kiel in hands of revolutionary sailors 1918 Death Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies 1918 Event Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia 1917 Event Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee 1914 Birthday Anna Larina, revolutionary 1909 Birthday Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese Revolutionary 1905 Event Great revolutionary demonstration for amnesty in St. Petersburg 1891 Death Antera Tarquinis de Quental, Portuguese poet/revolutionary, dies at 49 1886 Birthday Grigory K Ordzhonikidze, Sergo, Russian revolutionary politician 1883 Birthday Adolf A Joffe, Russian revolutionary/writer, Brest-Litovsk 1881 Death Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69 1879 Birthday Leon Davidovitsj Trotsky, Leib Bronstein, Russian revolutionary 1879 Birthday Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, President of 1st Soviet, 1879 Birthday Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader 1877 Birthday Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president, 1924-28 1876 Death Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary 1876 Birthday David Wijnkoop, Dutch revolutionary socialist 1874 Death Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, French politician and revolutionary, dies 1873 Birthday L Martov, Yuly O Tsederbaum, Russian revolutionary 1873 Birthday Francisco Madero, Mexico, revolutionary, president, 1911-13 1872 Death Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66 1871 Birthday Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist, Sparta Party 1871 Birthday [Emile M] Louis Madelin, French historian, French revolutionary 1869 Birthday Nadezjda K Krupskaja, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin 1869 Birthday Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary, Soc-Dem 1867 Birthday Kurt Eisner, German premier of revolutionary Bavaria, 1918-19 1863 Birthday Hugo Haase, German SPD-German parliament/revolutionary 1861 Death Laselo Teleki, Hungarian earl/revolutionary, commits suicide 1859 Birthday Theodor Batthyanyi, Hungarian statesman/contra revolutionary 1856 Birthday Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist 1850 Death Jose Francisco de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero, dies 1850 Death Giovanni Ossoli, Italian marquis/revolutionary, drowned 1850 Death [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, U.S. feminist/revolutionary, dies 1847 Death Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary (Souvenirs), dies at 65) 1847 Birthday Sergei G Netsjajev, Russian nihilist, Catechism Revolutionary 1842 Birthday Peter Kropotkin, Russian Revolutionary 1842 Death Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34 1833 Death Lemuel Haynes, Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88 1832 Death Evariste Galois, French revolutionary/mathematician, dies at 20 1831 Death Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero, dies 1830 Death Frederic LG de Merode, Belgian revolutionary, dies in battle at 37 1821 Event Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw 1817 Event San Martin leads a revolutionary army over Andes 1815 Event Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest Jose Maria Morelos 1815 Death Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards 1814 Birthday Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary 1811 Birthday Evariste Galois, French revolutionary/mathematician, Theory of G 1811 Birthday Friedrich Hecker, Baden, German revolutionary republican politician 1810 Birthday [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, U.S. feminist/revolutionary, New York Tribune 1808 Birthday Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, Cortes 1807 Birthday Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, born in Paris, France, French politician and revolutionary 1806 Birthday Lajos, Count Batthy ny, revolutionary premier of Hungary, 1848-49 1805 Birthday Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary, Il Apostolato Popolare 1805 Birthday Auguste Blanqui, France, revolutionary, workers' leader 1803 Death Samuel Adams, U.S. revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party), dies at 81 1803 Death [Francois D] Toussaint L'Ouverture/Haitian revolutionary, dies 1802 Event Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends 1801 Death Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London 1799 Death Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary 1797 Death Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies 1795 Death William Prescott, American Revolutionary soldier, dies 1795 Death Ignac Martinovics, Hungarian physicist/revolutionary, beheaded 1794 Event Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France 1794 Event Hungarian revolutionary Ignac Martinovics arrested in Vienna 1794 Death Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary/avocat (1781), guillotined 1794 Event France revolutionary regime begins trials 1794 Death Georges-Jacques Danton, French revolutionary leader, guillotined at 34 1794 Death Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary 1793 Death Jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary, murdered by Charlotte Corday 1792 Birthday Frederic L G, Earl of Merode, Belgian revolutionary 1792 Event France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars 1789 Event Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses 1784 Event Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris 1783 Event Treaty of Paris signed (ending U.S. Revolutionary War) 1783 Event Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War 1782 Birthday Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary, Souvenirs 1781 Event Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends 1781 Event Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War 1781 Event French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War 1780 Event Charleston, South Carolina falls to British (Revolutionary War) 1779 Event John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain 1777 Death Button Gwinnet, U.S. revolutionary leader, dies from wounds 1776 Death Francis Salvador, 1st Jew to die in American Revolutionary War 1776 Event British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War 1776 Event 1st revolutionary flag displayed 1775 Event American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal 1775 Event American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured 1772 Event 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, RI 1759 Birthday Georges Danton, France, revolutionary leader/Minister of Justice 1759 Birthday Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary 1758 Birthday Maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat, 1781 1757 Birthday Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary 1752 Birthday George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War 1748 Birthday Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general 1747 Birthday Kasamir Pulaski, U.S. general in the Revolutionary War 1741 Birthday Benedict Arnold, U.S. general turn traitor, Revolutionary War 1738 Birthday Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter, lead the Green Mtn Boys 1722 Birthday Samuel Adams, revolutionary rabble rouser, Lieutenant Governor-Mass, 1789 - 1794 1605 Birthday Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor
