Timeline of Anarchism in Western Europe: Difference between revisions

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This is a timeline of various political, legal, military, social, economic and environmental events that have occurred in Western Europe (An area comprising the states of Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria) that are relevant to libertarian socialism.

Before 1700

993: Free Frisia begins to experiment with direct democracy in one of the only non-feudal areas of Europe.

1800s

1871: Workers take over Paris for two months and begin the first modern experiments with a socialist society, taking over factories, introducing direct democracy and free education before being brutally repressed.
1878: Max Hödel attempts to assassinate Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany. His two attempts to shoot the monarch both fail, and he is apprehended and executed by beheading on August 15.
1893: Auguste Vaillant throws a nail bomb in the French National Assembly, killing nobody and injuring one as revenge for the execution of Ravachol. During his execution by guillotine, he shouts "Death to bourgeois society and long live anarchy!".
1894: Émile Henry, intending to avenge Auguste Vaillant, sets off a bomb in Café Terminus, Paris. Killing one person and injuring 20.
1894: Sante Geronimo Caserio, seeking revenge for Auguste Vaillant and Émile Henry, stabs Sadi Carnot, the President of France, to death.
1898: Luigi Lucheni stabs to death Empress Elisabeth, the consort of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary, with a needle file in Geneva, Switzerland.

1900s

1902: The Belgian General Strike occurs as the working class attempts to expand political rights.^[1]
1990: The Ernst-Kirchweger-Haus is squatted and converted into a social center.^[2]

References

[1] .org - https://libcom.org/history/1902-belgian-general-strike

[2] Wikipedia (In German) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst-Kirchweger-Haus

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-This is a timeline of various political, legal, military, social, economic and environmental events that have occurred in Western Europe that are relevant to [[Libertarian Socialism|libertarian socialism]].
+This is a timeline of various political, legal, military, social, economic and environmental events that have occurred in Western Europe (An area comprising the states of Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria) that are relevant to [[Libertarian Socialism|libertarian socialism]].
 == Before 1700 ==

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Before 1700

1800s

1900s

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