Season 12 premiered October 20, 2024 – a nonfictional account of The Martian Revolution of 2247. Mike Duncan is taking everything he's learned from 12 seasons of historical revolutions - the repeating arcs, characters, ideas, events, and patterns which all revolutions seem to follow - and created a fictional history of the Martian Revolution of 2247. The series is written from the point of view of a historian working hundreds of years after the Martian Revolution and will be presented in the style and format of previous seasons of Revolutions. It will look, sound, and feel like a Mike Duncan history podcast…but will instead be a fictional narrative of a gripping science-fiction epic. Revolutions is a podcast that covers the great political revolutions that have defined the modern world. Each season is a long-form narrative covering a different defining revolutionary epoch across three hundred years of history. It explores in great detail the people, ideas, and events that challenged and toppled outdated regimes and replaced them with new governments. After more than 350 episodes over ten seasons of narrative nonfiction, the 12th season is a fictional account of the Martian Revolution of 2247. *BREAKING NEWS* In the fall of 2025, the Revolutions podcast will return to its roots by diving into the great revolutions of the 20th century. The new run of episodes begins with the story of Irish Independence, a dramatic upheaval in the wake of WWI that saw Ireland free itself from centuries of English rule. Full of inspiring personalities, tragic events, and thrilling triumphs, Irish Independence is one of the most gripping events in revolutionary history. Future seasons will plunge ahead through the turbulent 20th century, and include the Spanish Civil War, the Cuban Revolution, and the Algerian War of Independence.
398 episodes transcribedIn 1814 Simón Bolívar met the Legions of Hell. It wasn't pretty.
Simón Bolívar left Venezuela in 1812. He came back in 1813.
Things did not go well for the First Venezuelan Republic.
in 1810 Simón Bolívar brought Francisco de Miranda home.
Further unrest plagued Spanish America in 1809 as the situation deteriorated back in Spain.
In May 1808 Napoleon deposed the Spanish Monarchy.
1n 1806, two invasions of South America tested the waters of independence. Also, Bolívar swears to liberate his country or die trying.
After the Seven Years War the Spanish American Empire was hit with an array of revolts. Also six degrees of Francisco de Miranda.
After the Bourbons came to power they reformed the Spanish Empire and along the way created the Viceroyalty of New Granada.
After Columbus "discovered" America the Spanish built up an empire upon which the sun never set.
After declaring independence, Jean-Jacques Dessalines ordered the extermination of the white French.
Done at the headquarters of Gonaives, the first day of January 1804, the first year of independence.
The new nation of Haiti was born on New Years Day 1804.
In the summer of 1802 the worst Yellow Fever epidemic on record hit Saint-Domingue--making it very difficult to re-impose slavery.
With the massive expedition he assembled, Bonaparte reckoned it would take three months to retake Saint-Domingue.
In 1801 Toussaint Louverture annexed Santo Domingo and promulgated a new constitution without permission from France. First Consul Bonaparte was not a...
From 1799-1800 Toussaint Louverture and Andre Rigaud fought a civil war for control of Saint-Domingue.
Toussaint Louverture began to craft an independent foreign policy for Saint-Domingue in 1798.
