Timeline of Anarchism in Western Europe

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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.

Before 1000AD

993: Free Frisia begins to experiment with direct democracy.

1800s

1871: Paris Commune
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 revene 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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Before 1000AD

1800s

1900s

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