The July Revolution, also called the Three Glorious Days, overthrew King Charles X of France. It was triggered by his July Ordinances, which suspended press freedom, dissolved the newly elected chamber and narrowed the electorate, and were seen as an attack on the constitutional Charter. Barricades went up in Paris, the army was unable to restore control, and Charles X abdicated and left for exile in Britain. Parliament offered the crown to Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orleans, who became king of the French and presided over the July Monarchy, a more liberal, bourgeois regime. The revolution revived the tricolour flag and inspired uprisings elsewhere in Europe, including the Belgian Revolution; it is also the subject of Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People.
Before and after
- 1830Charles Lyell publishes Principles of Geology
- from 12 January 1830 to 10 September 1895Great Game
- 16 May 1830Death of Joseph Fourier
- 10 July 1830Birth of Camille Pissarro
- from 26 July 1830 to 29 July 1830July Revolution
- 18 August 1830Birth of Franz Joseph I of Austria
- from 25 August 1830 to 21 July 1831Belgian Revolution
- 8 September 1830Birth of Frédéric Mistral
- from 29 November 1830 to 21 October 1831November Uprising
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