History

5) Depiction of Romanian revolutionaries during the Revolutions of 1848. Revolutions spread throughout the Austrian Empire, the German states, and the Italian states.

4) In Spain, the Liberales, the first group to use the liberal label in a political context defeating the conservative Carlists in the 1830s.

3) Adam Smith in his influential Wealth of Nations (1776), which revolutionized the field of economics.

2) The French Revolution began in May 1789 with the convocation of the Estates-General, also the march of the women on Versailles.

1) Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, first codified in 1789 in France.