The Batavian Republic was the Dutch state that replaced the Dutch Republic of the United Provinces, formed after the Dutch Patriots, backed by French revolutionary armies, overthrew the stadtholder William V, who fled to England. It was a sister republic of France, with a more centralised government than the loose federation of provinces before it, and its constitution of 1798 was a unitary one with a national parliament. It was forced to pay for the French occupation and lost colonial possessions to Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1806, Napoleon turned it into the Kingdom of Holland and made his brother Louis its king. Some of its reforms, such as the abolition of provincial privileges, shaped the modern Netherlands.
Before and after
- 8 May 1794Death of Antoine Lavoisier
- from 27 July 1794 to 26 October 1795Thermidorian Reaction
- from 1 September 1794 to 1 January 1899Australian frontier wars
- from 17 November 1794 to 20 November 1794Battle of the Black Mountain
- from 19 January 1795 to 5 June 1806Batavian Republic
- from 8 September 1795 to 11 September 1795Battle of Krtsanisi
- 31 October 1795Birth of John Keats
- 2 November 1795Birth of James K. Polk
- 1796Georges Cuvier shows that extinction is real
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The era
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