To what does Dickens allude in his novel A Tale of Two Cities?

With the historical setting of the French Revolution,
Charles Dickens's novel A Tale of Two Cities certainly alludes to
the storming of In fact, Dickens makes a note to the reader regarding Thomas Carlysle's
The French Revolution: A History. the Bastille and the guillotine
which were parts of the revolution.  In one allusion to the revolution, for instance,
after Dr. Manette returns to France in order to vindicate his son-in-law, Charles
Darnay, ne Evremonde, the bonnets rouges, as the revolutionaries
are called, refer to Manette as "the Bastille
Captive." 

Of course, in the opening chapter of the novel,
Dickens alludes to the respective kings of England, George III, and of France, Louis
XVI, as he draws parallels between the two countries:

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There were a king with a large jaw and a queen
with a plain face on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a
queen with a fair face, on the throne of
France.

In this same chapter,
Dickens alludes to Mrs. Southcott, a self-proclaimed prophetress, who alledgedly had
many revelations,

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Mrs. Southcott...had heralded the sublime
appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and
Westminister.

In addition,
there is an allusion to the "Cock-lane ghost," a reference to the haunting of the 1760s
of an apartment on Cock Lane, an alleyway adjacent to the famous St. Paul's Cathedral in
London.  William Kent from Norfolk married Elizabeth Lynes who died in childbirth; after
her death, he became involved with the sister Fanny, whom he could not marry because of
canon law.  When Kent had to leave, he asked the landlord's daughter to keep Fanny
company.  It was then that a scratching was heard; this scrathcing continued even after
Fanny died.  Some felt that Fanny died not of the reported smallpox, but was murdered by
William Kent himself. In yet another allusion, that of "the sister of the shield and
trident," Dickens refers to an English symbol associated with currency at the time of
the writing of A Tale of Two Cities.

Other famous places such as Turnham Green, a
public park that originally was a village on the main road between London and the west. 
In 1642 there was a battle fought in the First English Civil War in which the
Parlimentarians blocked the King's advance upon London.