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Definition of Revolutionary calendar
1. Noun. The calendar adopted by the first French Republic in 1793 and abandoned in 1805; dates were calculated from Sept. 22, 1792.
Generic synonyms: Solar Calendar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Revolutionary Calendar
Literary usage of Revolutionary calendar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The French Revolution: A Political History, 1789-1804 by François-Alphonse Aulard (1910)
"... Revolutionary calendar The Revolutionary calendar dated from September 22,
1792, but came into actual use on October 5, 1792. ..."
2. The French Revolution: A Political History, 1789-1804 by François-Alphonse Aulard, Bernard Miall (1910)
"... Revolutionary calendar The Revolutionary calendar dated from September 22,
1792, but came into actual use on October 5, 1792. ..."
3. The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1903)
"Year III. of the Revolutionary calendar, from 32 Sept, 1791, to 91 Sept, ITM.
... Year X. of the Revolutionary calendar, inn SS Sept, 1801, to SI Beai, 1809 ..."
4. My Scrap-book of the French Revolution by Thomas Waters Griffith, Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer (1898)
"TTie Revolutionary calendar.* One of the things which made the French Revolution
memorable was, in the language of the period, that it represented " the ..."
5. The French Revolution by H. Packwood Adams (1914)
"APPENDIX B THE Revolutionary calendar THE following scheme, drawn up by Carlyle,
enables one to transpose into the ordinary style dates given in the style ..."
6. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1901)
"It is in connection with the revolutionary calendar that many of the most striking
... 186 and 190) transferred from the revolutionary calendar are Dec. ..."
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