Revolutionary Timeline: The Uranus/Pluto Cycle

When Uranus, the planet of freedom and independence, meets authoritarian, transformational Pluto in hard aspect the key words are: revolution, social activism, rebellion vs. authoritarianism,  reformation, freedom against oppression, and transformation.  These are times in history when it becomes apparent that what people had been tolerating for some time, will not just go away by themselves, but in fact feel to be getting worse.  There is a universal urge to make much needed changes and reforms... even revolutions.  People feel as if they are forced to make changes or take a stand.  The catalyst for change usually comes through a series of events that allow people to see that things are not as they thought they previously were.  A lot of upheavals occur at these times as seen below, but also a lot of good reforms take place, changing the world in a very positive way, such as with civil rights movements, and the rights of man.  The reforms that do take place are often revolutionary in themselves, in that they change people’s perceptions on a grand scale.  Changes on a world scale.  Sometimes environmental, but often political and bent on civil rights and social reform.

1758-59 Uranus in Pisces square Pluto in Sag
The Seven Years Waractually a Global conflict that involved North and Central America, Europe, the West African coast, India and the Philippines.  It is sometimes divided between 4 separate theaters: French and Indian War (1754-63); the Pomeranian War (1757-1762); the Third Carnatic War (1757-1763); and the Third Silesian War (1756-1763).  These wars were driven by empirical control of colonies and trade throughout the world.  Over all some 1-1.4 million people died.
“No taxation without representation”
First coined at this time, this statement summarized the main grievance between colonists in the 13 colonies with Great Britain eventually leading to the American Revolution in the 1770’s.  Since the colonists did not have representation in parliament, they declared that taxation of the colonies was unconstitutional.

"Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all." - Robespierre

1793 Uranus in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius
French Revolution:
Old ideas about hierarchy and tradition succumb to the New Enlightenment principles of ‘citizenship’ and ‘inalienable rights’.  Replaced the monarchy with a radical democratic republic leading to major social changes.  The revolution was instigated by mass hunger and malnutrition among the poor with an apparent indifference on the part of the wealthy.  France was near bankruptcy especially as a result of its participation in the American Revolution and 7 years War.  Taxation subjected the lower classes to a heavy burden while numerous exemptions existed for the nobility.
Reign of Terror 1793-94
16,594 people were executed in France after being accused of counter-revolutionary activities.  Some historians say as many as 40,000 were executed, including the famous execution of Marie Antoinette.
Haitian Revolution
The St. Domingue slave revolt which led to the elimination of slavery and the establishment of Haiti as the first republic ruled by people of African ancestry.  Although they gained their independence, it would be an uphill struggle for this society which had deeply entrenched traditions already imposed on them by French rule, and an unconscionable debt as they were required to pay reparations to the French slaveholders in order to receive French recognition.  It was a no-win battle.

1820-21 Uranus in Sagittarius square Pluto in PiscesRevolutions and declaration of Independence of the nations in Central and South America
Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Santo Domingo, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. 
Europe
Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire, with revolutions and revolts in Spain, Portugal, Italy and France.
Many Revolutionary figures born during this time:
Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony

"I was a stranger in a strange land, my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were (in Maryland). But I was free, and they should be free."

1850 Uranus conjunct Pluto in Aries
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Tubman escaped slavery in 1850 and joined the Underground Railroad, bringing family and friends out of slavery and into safety.  This was the same year that the Fugitive Slave Act was passed, forcing law officials to recapture fugitive slaves, even in states that outlawed slavery, and punish those who aided and abetted their escape.  Tubman became known as “Moses” for her brave exploits.

“ The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism. Excepting John Brown—of sacred memory—I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have.” ~ Frederick Douglass.

Taiping Rebellion began
a widespread civil war led by a Christian convert, Hong, whose goal was social reform, replacing Buddhism, Confucianism and chinese folk religion with a form of Christianity.  Considered one of the deadliest of conflicts in which 20M people would die.
Irish Potato famine
“the Great Hunger”  The Irish Famine was the basis for a great deal of embittered anger between the disenfranchised Irish and the British.  Huge quantities of food were exported from Ireland to England throughout the period of the famine, when the people of Ireland were literally dying of starvation.  In fact exportation actually increased during the famine.  The food was shipped under guard from the most famine-stricken parts of Ireland, and the poor had no money to buy food at all.

“My lands are where my dead lay buried.” ~Chief Crazy Horse

1877 Uranus in Leo square Pluto in Taurus
The Indian Wars
Chief Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the US Calvary in Montana.  He said “A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky. I was hostile to the white man…we preferred hunting to a life of idleness on our reservations. At times we did not get enough to eat and we were not allowed to hunt. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone. Soldiers came and destroyed our villages. Then Long Hair (Custer) came…They say we massacred him, but he would have done the same to us. Our first impulse was to escape but we were so hemmed in we had to fight.”  After their final battle, Crazy Horse would surrender.  A few months later he would die as a result from a stab wound from a bayonet. 
Russo Turkish War
The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire in 1877.
From 1873 onward the Ottoman government was being brought to its knees by wide-spread drought and famine in Anatolia.  People were hungry.  Taxes were unable to be paid to the Imperial Treasury.  The Ottoman government had to declare bankruptcy in 1875.  Uprisings occurred in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1875 due to high tax burdens imposed on them.  This in turn triggered the Bulgarian uprising in 1876.  Revenge was taken on the Bulgarians, committing untold atrocities against the people.  There was an international public outcry condemning the Ottoman Empire.  The strongest reaction came from Russia, whose sympathy for the Bulgarian cause led to a nationwide surge in patriotism.  Russia also saw their intervention as a way to regain territories lost during the Crimean War (which occurred during the Uranus Pluto conjunction in 1850).

"I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred."~ Booker T. Washington

1901 Uranus in Sagittarius opposes Pluto in Gemini
Booker T. Washington is invited to the White House by Theodore Roosevelt
Washington was the leading figure in the African American community from 1890 to 1915.  When Washington’s autobiography, Up from Slavery, was published in 1901, it became a bestseller, and made a major impact.  As a result of this, Theodore Roosevelt invited him to dinner at the White House. The racist Southerners, including the outspoken foul-mouthed governor of Mississippi, and Senator from South Carolina, reacted to this with extreme anger and retribution through increased racial rhetoric and violence.
Panic of 1901
1st Stock Market Crash on the New York Stock Exchange, caused by power brokers trying to take full control of the Railroads.  The moguls involved remained relatively unscathed, but as a result of the panic, thousands of small investors were ruined.
JP Morgan buys mines and steel mills in the US making this the 1st Billion$ deal ever made.
Theodore Roosevelt asks Congress to curb the power of Trusts. 
These were business entities intending to monopolize businesses (such as the Railroads), restrain trade or fix prices. 
Disasters:
Great Fire of 1901 in Florida ravaged most of Jacksonville leaving over 10,000 people homeless
Hurricane in Texas kills 8,000
Earthquake in Guatemala kills 2,000
Mt. Pelée erupts in Martinique killing 30,000 people

"Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange

1930-34 Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Cancer
Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiates The New Deal
The New Deal is a widespread social welfare strategy, which included the Social Security Act, to combat the economic devastation caused by the Great Depression, which began with the collapse of the Stock Market in October of 1929.  This was the largest stock market crash in American history, causing devastating effects worldwide.  As a result, authoritarian regimes emerged in several countries including the Third Reich in Germany and Japan invading Manchuria.  This in turn led to the collapse of the League of Nations.
The Dust Bowl
Severe dust storms caused major ecological damage to prairies in the US and Canada from 1930-36.  These were caused by extreme droughts as well as poor farming techniques leading to erosion.  The results of these were mass migrations, food shortages, multiple deaths and a severe decrease in wages.
The Salt March

“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.”

Mohandas Gandhi leads the non-violent Declaration of Indian Independence.  The Salt March was part of this campaign, and was a show of resistance against the British owned salt monopoly in colonial India.  This march would later have a significant influence on Martin Luther King, Jr. and his own non-violent peace march protests in the 1960’s.
Hitler and the Third Reich

“How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think.”
“We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison.  We must reduce workers salaries and take away their right to strike.” ~ Adolf Hitler, May 2, 1933

Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (commonly known as the Nazis), were able to rise to power forming a fascist regime, following the failure of the German Banks in 1931.  As a party they were committed to repudiating the Treaty of Versailles, persecuting and removing Jews and other minorities from Germany, opposing Communism, and expanding Germany’s territories, which eventually led to the Second World War.

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”

Mao Zedong forms the Chinese Soviet Republic

1964-1967 Uranus conjunct Pluto in Virgo
Decolonization of Africa
32 African countries gained their independence in the 1960’s.
The Americanization of the Viet Nam War and the Peace Movement
US combat troops are deployed to Viet Nam in 1965, peaking in 1968.  A series of attrocities committed by troops along with the advent of photo journalism, brought the war home, and resulted in a public outcry against the war, leading to huge peace marches throughout the nation that eventually put pressure on the government to end the US involvement in the war.  Provocative actions by police and by protesters would turn anti-war demonstrations in Chicago at the 1968 Democratic National Convention into a riot.  But for the most part the movement gained national prominence and support across the country.
The 6 Day War
Also known as the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict, in which Israel gained control of the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Golan Heights.  The results of which effect the politics of the region up to this day.  As a result of the war 300,000 Palestinians left the West Bank and Gaza, most of whom settled in Jordan.  In addition, another 100,000 Syrians had to leave the Golan Heights.  The Israeli government announced that it would allow the return of Palestinian refugees who desired to do so, but were given no more than a month’s notice.  Under pressure from Jordan, many signed up to return, but only 14,000 of the 120,000 who applied were actually allowed by Israel to return to the West Bank.
The Civil Rights Movement

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation.  The foundation of such a method is love. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Selma to Montgomery marches were three marches in 1965 that marked the peak of the American civil rights movement. They were initiated through a movement for voting rights, which began in Selma, Alabama. The first march, referred to as “Bloody Sunday” took place on March 7, 1965, in which the civil rights marchers were attacked by the police with billy clubs and tear gas.  The second march took place on March 9.  It was not until the third march on March 21st, which lasted five days, that they made it all the way to Montgomery, Alabama, 51 miles away.
The Feminist Movement
During the 60‘s there was a strong campaign against the inequality of women.  Women began to address certain aspects of their own personal lives as being also political in expression, and a result of the inequality of power in society.
Assassinations:
Medgar Evers of the NAACP in 1963
JF Kennedy in 1963
Malcolm X in 1965
Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968
Robert F. Kennedy in 1968

2011-15 Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn

Uprisings in the Middle East: Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, with unrest in Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia as well.

Union Busting in the United States with huge protests in Wisconsin.

Japan earthquake and Tsunami, March 11, 2011
Occupy Wall Street which began Sept. 17, 2011 and continues to grow.