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When asked about the influence of the French Revolution China's premier of the time, Chou en Lai, by Henry Kissinger, his supposed reply was “ ' Too soon to tell' “. Whether or not he uttered that phrase argues a needless point. That the quote resonates at all illustrates how pivotal the uprising turned into. Almost as different as light the before and after picture of the event is one thing we can say for certain about the event. To any historian or surveyor of society, the French Revolution stands out as one of the most important seminal events all time. As the reader will soon learn, an outer planet history closely parallels the entire episode. More importantly, these parallels give us the opportunity for deeper insight that confirms many opinions while also raising insight not available by other means. By following methods laid out elsewhere, the reader may learn when (and how) we can determine the influence of a revolution that continues to shape every nation on the planet.
Like the event, an outer planet analysis of it provides no simple answers. The cause and effect of La Revolution are many. No one answer or cause acts as a linchpin that when pulled all fell apart around it. The uprising had such a complicated effect because it had many causes that reached well beyond French borders. We see evidence of this fact by how readily most neighboring sovereignties chose war against the now upstart state. Even this process turned out countering all held notions; what thought most would end in a few months turned into an almost two decade with at one time the French controlling most of the continent, a result none had achieved previously.
 
The reader should know that the episode itself had no cause . The outer planet parallels to history bear out this truth and requires an equally complex explanation. Expect that you may have to read this section more than once. If you skip around, which I encourage, you might want to make sure you review the basics of Measuring History a time or two. An event with such convoluted roots requires more than a few pages to sort out, especially with the introduction of the new way of seeing history Measuring History allows. 

 The Visual Primer includes a chapter entitled 1648, also the title of the next book in the series for good reason. Many historical paths intersect through that year and the outer planet evidence does the same. One of the threads begun then splinters off of the Thirty Years War, which in essence, France had won. This proved quite the accomplishment since officially France never fought the war. This shows the power France held. What better to win a war you never officially fought?
The knights returning from the conflict, bulging with French pride wanted to leverage their gains and saw opportunity in the regent king, a boy of around eleven years.  A noble revolt, known as Les Frondes, ensued . While not as famous as the beheading across the Channel within the same year, but in many ways just as important. Indeed, seen together, both monarchs faced similar problems, a rebellious nobility and the means to conduct modern government using medieval mindsets. Both sides of the Channel took different approaches with the English beheading their king much sooner than the French. The English, because of nobility much more intertwined with commercial interests, showed that the Parliament could not be silenced, even if it could not figure out how to govern without a monarch (later restored). The French had Parlement, a similar but different body, dissolved during the time discussed here until 1789 when France stood in crisis.
Les Frondes, was an attempt by the returning nobles to seize more power for themselves. The nobles could never agree among themselves on how to mount a united offense. The failed uprising left an indelible impression on a young Louis XIV. He learned to rule with a strategy that made the nobility eagerly servile to the King. Louis carefully designed rituals such as the dressing of his majesty that nobles would fight among themselves to be part of. Thus occupied Louis could conduct state affairs with little interference from the nobles. But this little to change affairs outside of government. The nobles lost few rights and more critically, continued to live mostly tax-free. This dichotomy, monarchy and nobility, made up the First Estate. The Second Estate, the clergy also lived tax free and clung to its status with fervor. Since it also controlled education, especially at lower grade levels, it still held strong influence even as Catholicism suffered elsewhere. France had favorable and different relations with Rome dating back to the Babylonian Captivity of the 14th century. Since the clergy owed its more favorable status to the monarchy, it acted as its natural ally. The Third Estate essentially represented everyone else, including a middle class that paid the bills but had little power. All of the above made up the Ancien Regime no one dared to alter.
On top of these foundation entered the Age of Reason that somewhere morphed into the Age of Enlightenment. Both if these movements loudly throughout the Revolution. Parties tried to remake government and society into pantheons of reason free from any religious context. The Revolution came so easily because many saw it as a natural extension of teachings of Rosseau, Voltaire, etal. A free press combined with a fervent intellectual audience produced many who thought Reason could extricate them from a system of inequality.
On top of this, indeed fed by the same desire to use the mind to the limits of its capacity came a new class of intellectuals increasingly paid to deal in abstract professions such as law, engineering and accounting. More and more the state, through the King, sought professionals in these fields. While some could buy their way into mobility, most simply demanded remuneration through higher salaries. This system of modern pay structure struggled to find a home among ancient tax codes that doled out revenues in fixed amounts unadjusted to inflation. Money creates power, but many of those who earned the most gained little and saw more earnings taxed as Louis XIV tried to make the France preeminent European power. Of course, it would not be the Revolution if for the fact that the actions of the Sun King cemented the power of middle-class. It was from this group and a growing merchant class that grew to meet increasing demand, that Louis drew his talent. He essentially put them in power without awarding them any status.
The events put in place by the Peace of Westphalia that lead to Le Frondes created the social divisions that only grew wider between 1648 and 1789.
 Of all the quadrature alignments in play among Saturn through Pluto in 1648, only Neptune-Pluto does not appear during the height of the revolution between 1789 and 1793. The upper-square of Neptune to Pluto does appear as Europe comes to terms with the Napoleonic Wars that the revolution eventually became. Of special interest are Saturn-Pluto waves that read like a history of the period between 1648 and 1795. We also need to address an almost 80-year relative positioning, an upper trine, between Neptune-Pluto that seemed to coincide with the Enlightenment.
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Around 1648 the planets Saturn through Pluto appeared in the following alignments:

Neptune opposite Pluto
Uranus opposite Pluto 
Uranus conjunct Neptune
Saturn opposite Uranus
Saturn opposite Neptune
Saturn opposite Uranus
 
From 1785 to 1795, the root years of the Revolution they appeared in the following alignments:
Uranus upper square Neptune
Uranus opposite Pluto
Saturn opposite Uranus
Saturn opposite Neptune
Saturn opposite Uranus
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Uranus-Pluto Waves
 
1596Uranus-Pluto1709
 
The reason 1596Uranus-Pluto appears in this survey comes with the 1648 opposition (1596Uranus-180°-Pluto1709), a year already cited as pivot point on many levels. When seen from this wider perspective we can see where the reemergence of the French crown which began when Henry IV produced the the Edict of Nantes. Originally a Hugenot, Henry IV converted to Catholicism, endearing him to most of the French population. By enacting the edict, Henry ended the French wars of religion that had taken a brutal path from the 1560s until the Henry declared the edict. The people saw his acts as an act in favor of the state. His overall as record as a king, the second of the Bourbon dynasty made him very popular and well remembered for hundreds of years. This strong foundation put France in great shape when Europe devolved into the Thirty Years War. He also established a tradition where the people trusted their king, a circumstance that later suited Louis XIV for much of his reign.
 
1710Uranus-Pluto1848
 
When seen in its entirety, 1710Uranus-Pluto18949 encompasses most of the French Revolutionary period from cause through aftermath and result seen during the Revolutions of 1848. Few historians would dismiss the uprisings of 1848 established the political foundations that evolved until World War I. The uprisings set in stone that the bourgeoisie sided with the state rather than workers in the lower class, ending any notion that the revolutionaries of 1789 would partner with the proletariat against the state or capitalist interests. Indeed, the conundrum had evolved to where the worker, surely not as well-heeled as those in the middle or upper classes, nonetheless enjoyed better welfare than their fathers and certainly their grandfathers. Though, in many ways, as Chou En Lai's quote implies, the French Revolution lives on, the European version of it certainly reached a bookend around 1848 as the 1710Uranus-Pluto1848 ended and 1849Uranus-Pluto1965 began.
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Uranus-Neptune Wave
 
1649Uranus-Neptune1821 coincides with the entire run up to and conclusion of the French Revolution. Readers may respond that the same was said about the Uranus-Pluto but a more detailed look reveals the distinction. The accepted beginning of the French Revolution episode at the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 coincided with the 1596Uranus-180°-Pluto1709. 1649Uranus-Neptune1821 begins near 1648 when the Thirty Years War ended and the Age of Reason began (without coincidence).
An overall view of the span this wave covers points to this time to ranking as a period where our knowledgebase grew exponentially. The period coincides with the time from when Reason broke free from Church doctrine to the dawn of the Romance period. Think of how the French Revolution fits into this sequence. The euphoria that people felt with the freedom to reason freely for oneself evolved into Reason meeting Reality that epitomized the French uprising. From here people sought Romance, a return (in part) to simpler, more noble times. It also spanned the period from Galileo's and Descartes death to the birth of steam power and the practical use of electricity. From the beginning of 1649Uranus-Neptune1821 armies went from barely controlled mercenaries, for sale to the highest bidder, using a mix of medieval and modern weapons to ranks systematically drilled and equipped with modern weapons specifically tuned for battle. Europe entered 1649Uranus-Neptune1821 eager to defend medieval values and left it contemplating how to embrace the modern one. Without too much effort, the reader can see how the themes of 1648 evolved directly into the ones of 1821 with a theme where the public embraced science, knowledge and technology more than at any other time in history. Though ancillary to the French Revolution, the Industrial one sprang forth in ways that would combine both revolutions into new social issues surrounding class strata. Uranus-Neptune connections tend to be more subtle than Uranus-Pluto ones, but are equally important.
A survey of the Uranus-Neptune waves surrounding 1649Uranus-Neptune1821 helps get a flavor of how they appear throughout history.
1479Uranus-Neptune1648 took Europe from the titillation of the Renaissance with a reawakening of the past that opened it up to new questions the then current establishment in the end could not answer. We should note that at the end of the 1470s into the 1480s a first major redrawing of the European map took place. Spain united under Isabel and Ferdinand in 1478. The Low Countries began as a region independent from its French overlords; the Hapsburgs began to emerge and evolve into a dynasty that at one time would control a majority of wealth on more than three continents; Ivan III emerged from Muscovy to birth a legacy that turned into the Russian Empire.
I understand that connecting a Uranus-Neptune wave with redrawing the map of Europe seems far fetched. Readers should know, however, that at or within a few years of the Uranus-Neptune conjunctions of 1478, 1648, 1821 and 1992, Europe came to terms with a new paradigm that included a major establishment of new borders that, over time, took came with more self-knowledge than previous times. These junctures include the political reshaping of Europe we saw as the 1470s ended, with the peace negotiations that left us with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the Congress of Vienna near the 1821 conjunction that ended the Napoleonic Wars and the Maastrict Treaty of 1992 that put the dreams of a European Union into reality.
This background helps see the role France, for up to the next forty years after that first 'Bastille Day' still the most populous and powerful in Europe, with Great Britain, its long-time rival the only counter.
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!!The 1783 Saturn-Uranus-Neptune T-square
 
When Saturn waves intermingle with the lower frequency waves Uranus, Neptune and Pluto the long term concepts connected to these most remote planets come down to earth. The beginning of 1649Uranus-Neptune1821 coincided with Europeans struggle to define how humans should act in the absence of religious doctrine. The evidence of this time representing a historical pivot comes with the a growing list of philosophy and philosophers who published works that steered societies direction. Previous to 1648 most could only cite Descartes publishing in what would become a secular tradition. Thereafter the world received Hobbes, Locke and Kant along with growing works in natural philosophy that contained philosophical questions. We can see the effect these publications had on state affairs with the 1783 Saturn-Uranus-Neptune T-square.
As the diagram shows the three planets appeared in a pattern that looks like a T-square. Because Uranus and Neptune are involved here, we should look at the Uranus-Neptune wave in question, the one connected to the French Revolution because that event appeared during this outer-planet wave. As we have also seen, themes connected to the revolution, liberty, the role of Man all entered the stage as the 1649Uranus-Neptune1821 began. Adding to the mountain of evidence, we can see the heavy hand of Louis XIV who set France on path to revolt by entering into a foreign policy of war and conquest that heavily indebted the nation. At the same time he mollified the nobles, essentially delaying any needed steps toward reform that could have made the transition to the modern state less violent. While setting this style of statesmanship, he also helped expand the ranks of the middle class by turning to them for state projects from commercial to military needs. The problem grew worse because these workers demanded payment in wages, subject to inflation, paid by a state that relied on a web of taxes, tithes, royalties and other decrees a nation that traced its uninterrupted traditions to the time of Charlemagne. If these issues were not enough, add to them the ability of the First and Second Estate to pay little or no taxes and we clearly see where the story so far in 1783 leads directly back to events set in motion at Les Frondes and the Peace of Westphalia.

Now add the debt of Anne's War and funding the American Revolution, an event that ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

Though the debt run up by French subsidy of the American Revolution exacerbated the escalating issue of dept, other issues, some discussed here, particularly that of class. The affect on imaginations by the fight for liberty in the United States of America should not be overlooked. Many of the 'freedom fighters', eager for adventure, openly wondered if their own people deserved the same freedom. Since they came back as heroes, their voices had a great influence in the debate that arose over how to recreate French government to address the needs of the day. Both the American and French Revolutions inspired similar efforts for about the next fifty years. Countless movements named the United States of this or that came and went after the French Revolution. Additionally, after the French had to ask: after contributing so much to create a government based on freedom and equality for a new nation across a vast ocean, would not a French citizen ask for the same? And ask they did. Hundreds, if not thousands, of publications, inspired by the curiosity of the Enlightenment suggested ways to reform society in the name of Reason. Once the human mind was released from doctrine it produced prodigiously. It still could not avoid the Terror.
The American episode, which many thought as an experiment that would not last, introduced two new concepts that reverberated from its triumph forward. The first is nationalism, a concept in embryonic state in 1648, and still truly untried until the United States emerged from independence. The second is a subset of the first based on the United States using John Locke's ideas to found a nation. That this particular set of ideas guided the philosophy of a nation is not as an important as the act of choosing a philosophy at all. France, like about every other 'nation' on earth, emerged from family lineage based on tribal/clan traditions. Yes, ideas such as democracy and republicanism were used in Greece and Rome, but the access to power still required being born into it, a process basically known as primogeniture. This system of dynastic diplomacy represented a cornerstone of all aspects governance for centuries leading up to 1789. The United States suggested a way to structure a state based on ideas. It just so happened that the French government collapsed at time when new ideas were en vogue.

The entrenched European establishment stood in the way.

 The revolt against the French crown turned into one against any crown that mattered. All the powers in Europe declared war on France, launching a twenty-year war for/against revolution. The uprising also set up a cascade that changed European (and the world map) forever, with changes ranging far beyond territorial rearrangements. The beheading of Louis XVI gave Russia and Prussia the excuse to further divide Poland among themselves. This represented standard politics of the day. What differed in the wars that followed is that the wars of territory merged with wars for or against an idea. Edmund Burke realized that he needed to create a conservative doctrine to counter the liberalism that arose from the French affair. Even the terminology  'Left' and 'Right' to describe a person as liberal or conservative date back to the Revolution. Most importantly, declaration of war against the French Revolution instantly became a war for something. What that something (the old way, the Crown) was from this time forward took more than a little thought to define. Governments can easily rally for defense of territory. The idea needs to be worth fighting for and/or the propaganda very convincing.

By 1783 at the Saturn-Uranus-Neptune 

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A Combination of the Uranus-Pluto and Uranus-Neptune Waves
 
The most clear way to understand how both Uranus Waves, Uranus-Pluto and Uranus-Waves reflect the issues that boiled over in 1789. We saw how 1596Uranus-Pluto1709 requires consideration because the momentum towards revolution began around 1649 at 1596Uranus-180-Pluto1709. Since 1710Uranus-180-Pluto1849 appeared in 1792-93 at the height of the affair, we must not see the wave as containing the event, but see the revolution as a signature of 1710Uranus-Pluto1849. Any events at an opposition points to the signature issues of that particular wave. When seen in total, the span from 1710 through 1848 bears this out. All thought connected to 1848 Revolutions and publication of the Communist Manifesto came in direct answer to the French Revolution. 
 
 1399Neptune-270-Pluto1892: The Really Big Picture and the Revolution

 Think about what the marker 1399Neptune-270-Pluto1892 tells us. A Neptune-Pluto wave begun around 1400 at the conjunction of Neptune and Pluto reached a three-quarters mark. If it were a race, what happens before only serves as a setup for the last quarter. Yes, the previous events are equally important, but the last quarter provides different dynamics because a goal is within reach. Of course, those alive at the beginning of the 19th century knew nothing about the goal we reached around 1892, but the evidence below will show the path that connects to the two periods, the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the beginning of the 20th Century, was a path toward the conjunction of Neptune-Pluto in 1892-93 that represented a definitive end and a clear beginning. 
The Congress of Vienna convened in 1815 to settle what was thought was an end to the Napoleonic Wars. As it turned out, Napoleon's last gasp in the end ultimately resulted in imprisonment  in a a more remote location. France, glad to see war and debt end, willingly accepted any edicts the other combatants decided for them. The rest of Europe felt the same, victorious or not. The last thing any party wanted was to give any excuse for new conflict. France, the culprit and still potentially an upsetting political force for Europe secured almost the same boundaries as surveyed around 1789. In contrast, almost a century later the Treaty of Versailles sought to punish the transgressors, a strategy that proved disastrous on hindsight. Ultimately, Europe left the entire affair with feelings of uncertainty about its future. Though France willingly acquiesced choosing another member of the previously vanquished Bourbon Dynasty, the king never commanded the same power as before. Napoleon, on the other hand, left a far more lingering effect. Code Napoleon represents the core bureaucratic doctrine many European nations, including France, adopted and use down to our time. Citizens of nations France occupied preferred the uniform application of legislation and justice Napoleon had left behind. The metric system, meant to standardize measurement across wide regions dates back to the Napoleonic episodes. While Europe stood ready to reject many aspects of the Revolution, particularly its overthrow of authority and the violent episodes such as the terror, the Revolution measured from its onset in 1789 through 1815 set Europe in a direction different than before that first Bastille Day. The Ancien Regime had died, but none knew the replacement.
One should not get the idea that the French woke up one day and wanted to liberate the rest of Europe. Quite the contrary. The French armies spread across Europe with few supplies with orders to pillage for what they needed. Soon, French officials would move in to formalize the pilfering―more than a works in the Louvre arrived as spoils of war. The French fought and benefited in the name of France, not as agents of Lord or King. This distinction, though a source of bitter resentment, was clearly noticed by the occupied [HOLY MADNESS ~PG 110 HERE]

From our post-modern viewpoint,nationalism seems a natural extension of territorial homogeneity. That nationalism is an artificial concept borne out of the French episode requires enforcement for two reasons. The first connects us to 1648, which we proved represents the year when the vector of French history set its path to 1789. The second connects us to the end of the main events of the French Revolution, namely the Congress of Vienna that settled the Napoleonic Wars. Both 1648 and the decade of the 1810s tie into the lower frequency wave of 1399Neptune-Pluto1892 of which both Uranus waves and the Saturn waves we should see as subsets,
1648, when, as we have seen above and in other chapters of the Visual Primer,  1596Uranus-180-Pluto and 1649Uranus-Neptune1821 appeared simultaneously with 1399Neptune-180-Pluto1892. The decade when the Napoleonic Wars ended also came at a time when 1399Neptune-270-Pluto appeared. So we must consider the French Revolution in context of all three of these waves because the correspondences demonstrates clearly how history mirrored these outer planet events. Other sections of Visual Primer show that during the first half 1399Neptune-Pluto1892 Europe struggled, often violently, with how to reconcile a theocratic culture spread across a range of sovereignties could allow those sovereignties to thrive. The process of reconciliation included the Thirty Years War that included all European territories, except the British Isles (who went through the same process in their own way). This brought us the Peace of Westphalia, whose central tenet was that a ruler could decide how citizens could worship . The treaty, for the most part, was for the benefit on monarchies, not the state, a concept implicitly  introduced by the settlement. One does not need too many hints to understand that the French Revolution represents another attempt to define the state: its functions, expectations and responsibility. 
Seen this way, we see the disconnect between all parties. The monarchy and the nobility within the  First Estate, despite having cross-purposes within this class had many reasons to continue the status quo, which for them meant power through dynasty. The Second Estate, also fairly well off, had no reason to desire change and every reason to support the First Estate. The Third Estate, everyone else, had every reason to support change, but sine this portion represented about 80% of the population, finding common ground among all the subclasses could not have come easily. To wit, the division of the Third Estate did not truly occur until the 1848 Revolutions. But change had to occur. Even if bad weather had not pushed France into near famine state, a political system wherein a class that contributed relatively little to society, reaped the most benefit and paid the least amount of tax could not endure forever. The Industrial Revolution, borne across the Channel, would soon obviate for a different kind of worker than the chiefly agrarian ones of previous times and modern societies require an educated class to administer and execute systems requiring more abstract thought processes. Similarly, to the religious question that dominated all of 1399Neptune-Pluto1892, all parties knew that the status quo could not hold, but no one could determine how to make the change without upheaval. One of the ways this happened came as an expansion on the process already in effect: nationalism.
As seen above, nationalism did not spring forth from the Revolution replacing the diplomacy and politics of the ancien regime. Some even surmise that nationalism, at least in the modern sense, began with the Revolution. Since Europe had to wait to settle the larger issue of crippling war it could not address this new mindset until the 1810s, a decade with a long-term upper square of Neptune-Pluto. 
Nationalism, how to define, utilize and adhere to it took many turns and to this day should not be considered finalized:

	In 1871 it was still, after easing the path to Italian and German unity, a long way from 	demonstrating all it might do, and new forces coming into play to feed it. In developing 	societies where old social ties and loyalties were breaking down in great cities and wide 	anonymous markets, there was a vacuum to be filled. Personal and collective identities had to 	be redefined, new emotional foci established. 
								A History of Europe, p 396, by J.M. Roberts

We must remember that despite its name the French Revolution, the event turned into a European affair. It swept away the Holy Roman Empire, ended the Dutch Republic, inspired the German, Italians,  the Slavic lands under Austro-Hungary Empire and brought Russia in as a (more or less)  equal player among the 'Great' European powers. Additionally, no matter how much a monarch may have tried, hanging onto the old dynastic system. Though at first limited to a small percentage of the population, suffrage increasingly turned into a necessity of holding political office. On top of all these changes, the Industrial Revolution constantly moved toward where state and business interests converged. Result-oriented business people pay attention to bottom-lines and have no need for heritage. The Revolution swept away much of the past. Europe (and its overseas connections) from 1820s had to reinvent itself.
Europe and the world changed quite a lot between 1648 and 1821, particularly in the colonial sphere, but more most the changes were subtle, out of view. From the 1810s forward, change became increasingly visible (smokestacks appeared more and more across the landscape) and accelerated at a rapid pace. The Napoleonic Wars became the last major ones fought without mechanized transportation. Telegraph would soon join the railroads in shrinking times it took to reach even the most remote areas. 

Visual Clues to the 1810s

[CHART FOR 1816] 	[CHART FOR 1818] 	
Uranus moves within 10 degrees of Neptune and is in the same sign (Sagittarius). Neptune has already moved within five degrees of its upper square to Pluto. 	Uranus and Neptune are close enough to be considered conjunct and, by extension, both into an effective upper square to Pluto. Saturn and Pluto both were in Pisces as the 1788Saturn-Pluto1819 neared its end.	

Notice in this random chart for a day in 1816 that Uranus and Neptune are close to one in another by degree and in the same sign. Neptune effectively had entered its upper square with Pluto. Altogether these quadrature alignments appearing within a concentrated period of a few years means it shares the same characteristics of the other quadrature alignments during 1399Neptune-Pluto1892, 1398. 1567 and 1648, respectively as seen below.

1399	1567	1648	
[Chart for 1399]	[Chart for 1567]	[Chart for 1648]	
1399Neptune-0°-Pluto1892: While Neptune was conjunct (at 0°) Pluto, Uranus was opposite (180°) Neptune (1307Uranus-180-Neptune1478) and Pluto (1344Uranus-180-Pluto1455)	1399Neptune-90°-Pluto1892: 
When Neptune was lower square  (90°) to Pluto, Uranus was opposite Neptune (1478Uranusand upper square Pluto 	1399Neptune-180°-Pluto1892:
When Neptune opposed (was 180°from) Pluto, Uranus was conjunct Neptune and opposite Pluto.	

Each of the other 1399Neptune-Pluto1892 quadrature alignments 1399, 1567, 1648 turned out to be turning points, times where the vector of history veered to a new direction.  

�	1398-99: At 1399 the 100 Years War stood at a standstill but would reassert itself, off and and on through 1455; the Church, essentially captured by the French crown for much of the 14th Century, remained embroiled in the Great Western Schism when as many as three popes (all with backers). This episode, along with the fact that Church impotency against plague, undermined the public's faith in its leadership. We should remember that Martin Luther had broad support aided by the printing press; the rot had set in much before 1517; the European effort to discover the oceans was well under way, particularly with Henry the Navigator of Portugal who pioneered voyages along the African coast. All of these events left a footprint that helped society move toward the French Revolution and to its aftermath in the 1810s.
1567-1572: The Council of Trent of 1564 stands out here because the Church redoubled its efforts against 'heresy', while it did address many needs that gave Martin cause to post his Theses, the overall tone of the Council heavily emphasized the opinion that the institution could thwart the heretics, with this us or them strategy obviating the institution from adopting the secular viewpoint that would dominate after the Age of Reason; the French engaged in wars of religion that also included machinations to control the Crown; in England, Elizabeth weathered the politics of Europe and withstood efforts of the Spanish to bring England back under Catholicism; though not particularly obvious the decade surrounding 1567 established the mindset that set up the cultural shift toward secularism; that Galileo, Shakespeare and Copernicus all entered the world around this time all had influence seen in 1789
1642-1649: This decade as we have seen above introduced most of the issues that helped engender the Revolution and these remained in place during the 1810s. The central tenet of the Enlightenment held that Reason could replace superstition and dogma, ie., religion and find a way to agree on how to run a society where people gained by merit rather than through birth. This last aspect did end with the Revolution, but the Terror and a twenty year ended the hope Reason would solve Man's dilemmas, moving some of Europe into the Romantic Age, which questioned whether we could return to our pre-modern instincts; this direction truly began, almost like a light switch in and around 1648. Everything that became an issue in and around 1648 not only remained one in the 1810s and 1820s but its importance magnified. 

The End of the French Revolution, the 1820s and the 19th Century

Each of the times in this subtitle are related and relate to the each of the quadrature alignments already mentioned. How this is so makes sense once we  look at the long view of the 19th Century from the 1820s forward, a decade that began with the cluster of outer planets diagrammed in this section,
The pace of change never slowed from the 1820s forward and looks to end only if we lose the struggle over how to industrialize at the expense of the environment. In every from, first in Europe (and its overseas satellites), then in more diverse locations, every aspect of life began to change as in no time in history. Technology, politics, procreation, migration patterns, education, medicine, Name any field and location on the planet and finding any untouched proves a challenge.
The amount and pace of change,for better and worse, came at unprecedented levels between 1821 and 1892, the span between 1399Neptune-270-Pluto1892 and 1893Neptune-0-Pluto2384. Growth in industry,length and density of transportation system and the penetration of markets all proved impressive accomplishments, but more telling was the attitude where humans felt few limits. No longer did humans look to the Greek or Roman to celebrate human achievement, they only needed to look around to modern achievements.
Thus, the European citizen, with the uncertainty of the Revolution in the back of their mind, also began to notice change arriving at a pace humans never dealt with before. Prior to the Renaissance all societies saw change, purposed change driven by human will rather than by nature or time, was implicitly forbidden. In the 1820s, with the Congress of Vienna mere years behind them, the relationship between the people and the government in full flux while the physical landscape increasingly grew dotted with smokestacks, factories and railroad tracks. Government officials had to notice that all vestiges of the acien regime giving way to a society at least curious about their rights and one where Industry demanded attention equal to the potential revenues it could add to the coffers; cities such as Liverpool and Manchester grew from towns to cities (bringing all the associated issues with them). The dual influence of social change and economic change arriving at unprecedented speed left a an impression of world moving rapidly toward the future than look to the past as cultures had for centuries. 
The modern reader who may have trouble grasping how big a change proved to those who lived during this time should think of the narrative of our time. We speak of  World War II, the 60s, 70s, 9/11. The youth of the early 19th Century would have heard from family, teachers, publications long gone, stories and legends of those who fought for or against the Revolution, why the other side was the enemy, how the old days were better. Charles Dickens (born 1812) first published in serial form The Tale of Two Cities in 1859, using it to speak to issues of inequality still troubling in his time. For the die-hards the French Revolution faded only after Franco-Prussian war of the early 1870s—the barricades went up but the enthusiasm of past times never arrived. The fact that untrained revolutionaries could not come close to defeating well-trained, well equipped armies made clear that efforts from the street had lost the impact they once had. Besides, Communism, Republicanism, Unionism and Anarchy had replaced the all to Revolution.

Outer Planet History 1821-1892

As shown before we find that during the immediate aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the three lowest frequency waves Neptune-Pluto, Uranus- Neptune and Uranus-Pluto stood in quadrature align as shown below:

1399Neptune-270-Pluto1892
1822Uranus-0-Neptune1992
1710Uranus-270-Neptune1848

We spoke of the ancien regime fading away noticeably as the 1815 Congress of Vienna convened. The people of the time report feeling a new world emerging even if most of the things they did everyday remained mostly the same. At the time, Europeans likely held tangible feelings of old ways passing AND a new one taking its place. The stress on “AND” implying the how feeling both events taking place must have occurred as one thought, not an easy feeling to grasp in any era. 
Think of the the phrase '1399Neptune-270-Pluto1892'. It points to the fourth of five quadrature alignments in wave that began in 1892. As far as the entire 1399Neptune-Pluto1892 wave, we do not leap too far when we identify the 1810s and 1820s still operating under the general themes of 1399Neptune-Pluto1982: the shift away from medieval culture and governance toward a secular based worldview robust enough to support the modern state. Indeed, we can rightly cite the Congress of Vienna as an exact example of how this process played out. The Congress recognized the sovereignty implied by the Peace of Westphalia (a tie to the quadrature alignment of 1398Neptune-180-Pluto1892), implied that religion no longer played a factor