1792

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Events

Claude-Joseph Roughet de Lisle composes La Marseillaise in only 20 hours. In 1887 it is made the French national anthem by the French Ministry of War.

Timeline

May 21: British government of Prime Minister Pitt issues proclamation against "wicked and seditious writings," including Tom Paine's liberal answer to conservative Burke, The Rights of Man. Richard Phillips is sentenced to a year and a half in prison for merely selling Paine's book. Radical attorney John Frost is sentenced to the pillory and 18 months in prison for commenting, "I am for equality...Why, no kings!" Paine himself was ordered to appear in court to answer charges of sedition.
August 10: Paris erupts over rumors of treason by the King and Queen.
November 19: French Constituent Assembly declared "in the name of the French nation...fraternity to all people wishing to recover their liberty."

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