National Revolutions
- Corsican Revolution (1755–1769)
- American Revolution (1775–1783)
- Revolt of Dutch Patriots (1785)
- French Revolution (1789–1799)
- Liège Revolution (1789–1795)
- Brabant Revolution (1790)
- Latin American wars of independence
- Haitian Revolution (1791–1802)
- Brazilian revolutionary movements
- Minas Conspiracy in Minas Gerais, Brazil (1789)
- Bahian Revolt (Inconfidência Bahiana) in Bahia, Brazil (1798)
- Brazilian Declaration of Independence (1821–1824)
- Spanish American wars of independence (1808–1833)
- Argentine War of Independence
- May Revolution (Argentina and neighbouring countries, 1810)
- Chilean War of Independence
- Peruvian War of Independence
- Bolivian War of Independence
- Military career of Simón Bolívar (Northern and Western South America)
- Ecuadorian War of Independence
- Patria Boba (Colombia)
- Venezuelan War of Independence
- Mexican War of Independence
- Argentine War of Independence
- Polish War in the defence of constitution (1792) and Kościuszko Uprising (1794)
- Batavian Revolution (1795–1801)
- Irish Rebellion of 1798
Various connecting threads among these varied uprisings include a concern for the "Rights of Man" and freedom of the individual; an idea (often predicated on John Locke or Jean-Jacques Rousseau) of popular sovereignty; belief in a "social contract", which in turn was often codified in written constitutions; a certain complex of religious convictions often associated with Deism or Voltairean agnosticism, and characterized by veneration of reason; abhorrence of feudalism and often of monarchy itself. The Atlantic Revolutions also had many shared symbols, including the name "Patriot" used by so many revolutionary groups; the slogan of "Liberty"; the liberty cap; Lady Liberty or Marianne; the tree of liberty or liberty pole, and so on.
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