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== Events ==
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* [[February 1]] – The abolition of the [[Corn Laws]] by the United Kingdom's Importation Act [[1846]] comes fully into effect.
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* [[February 8]] – The new [[Roman Republic (19th century)|Roman Republic]] is proclaimed.
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* [[March]] – The [[Frankfurt Parliament]] completes its drafting of a liberal constitution, and elects [[Frederick William IV]] emperor of the new German national state.
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* [[March 3]] - The [[United States Department of the Interior]] is established, incorporating the [[United States Census Bureau|Census Office]], [[General Land Office]], [[Office of Indian Affairs]] and [[United States Patent and Trademark Office|Patent and Trademark Office]].
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* [[March 5]] - President [[Zachary Taylor]] is [[Inauguration of Zachary Taylor|sworn in]].
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* [[March 30]] – The [[Second Anglo-Sikh War]] ends, with the United Kingdom annexing the [[Punjab (region)|Punjab]].
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* [[April 1]] - After [[Ten Days of Brescia|10 days]], the insurrection in [[Brescia]], (Italy) is ended by [[Austrian Empire|Austrian]] troops.
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* [[April 2]] – The [[German revolutions of 1848–49]] end in failure, as King Frederick William IV of Prussia refuses to accept the offer of the Frankfurt National Assembly, to be crowned as German emperor.
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* [[April 21]] - [[Great Famine (Ireland)]]: 96 inmates of the overcrowded [[Ballinrobe]] Union Workhouse died over the course of the preceding week from illness and other famine-related conditions, a record high.
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* [[April 21]] - The Austrian government asks Russian help against the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848|Hungarian Revolution]]. Tsar [[Nicholas I of Russia]] agrees to send troops against Hungary.
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* [[May 2]] – [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848]]: A new independent Hungarian government, led by [[Bertalan Szemere]], is formed. The head of state of Hungary becomes [[Lajos Kossuth]], as governor president.
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* [[May 3]] - The [[May Uprising in Dresden]], last of the [[German revolutions of 1848–49]], begins. [[Richard Wagner]] is among the participants.
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* [[May 9]] – The [[May Uprising in Dresden]] is suppressed by the [[Kingdom of Saxony]].
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* [[May 15]] – Troops of the [[Kingdom of the Two Sicilies]] take [[Palermo]], and crush the [[Sicilian revolution of 1848|republican government]] of [[Sicily]].
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* [[June 5]] - [[Denmark]] becomes a [[constitutional monarchy]].
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* [[June 5]] - [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848]]: The first Russian troops, led by Lieutenant General Fyodor Sergeyevich Panyutin, who come in the aid of the [[Habsburgs]], cross the Hungarian border at [[Bratislava|Pozsony]], in order to crush the Hungarian revolution.
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* [[June 17]] – [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848]]: The main Russian forces, led by [[Ivan Paskevich]], cross the Hungarian border, and together with the Austrian troops, led by [[Julius Jacob von Haynau]], start the final attack against the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848|Hungarian Revolution]]. Now the Hungarian revolutionary troops, numbering 173,000 soldiers, which even before the Russian attack were in inferiority regarding their numbers, and the quality of their weapons and war industry, face a force of 370,000 Austro-Russian forces, and other tens of thousands of Croatian, Serbian and Romanian insurgents, who serve the Habsburg imperial interests.
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* [[July 3]] – French troops occupy Rome; the [[Roman Republic (19th century)|Roman Republic]] surrenders.
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* [[August 2]] – [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848]]: The Russian main forces, under [[Ivan Paskevich]], defeat the Hungarian army under [[József Nagysándor]], at [[Debrecen]].
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* [[August 11]] – [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848]]: [[Lajos Kossuth]] and the Hungarian Government of [[Bertalan Szemere]] resign, and give all powers to the hands of [[Arthur Görgey]]. After this Kossuth, the ministries and many military officers leave Hungary, and ask asylum in [[Turkey]].
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* [[September 17]] – African-American abolitionist [[Harriet Tubman]] escapes from slavery.
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* [[October 4]] – [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848]]: [[Komárom]], the last bastion of the Hungarian Revolution, surrenders to the Austrian forces.
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* [[October 6]] - [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848]]: [[Lajos Batthyány]], the first Hungarian [[List of Prime Ministers of Hungary|prime minister]], is executed by Austria in [[Budapest|Pest]].
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* [[November 16]] – A Russian court sentences [[Fyodor Dostoyevsky]] to death, for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group, the [[Petrashevsky Circle]]. Facing a firing squad on [[December 23]], the group members are reprieved at the last moment, and exiled to the [[katorga]] prison camps in [[Siberia]].
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Latest revision as of 03:46, 14 March 2021

1839 < 1840 < 1841 < 1842 < 1843 < 1844 < 1845 <1846 < 1847 < 1848 < 1849 > 1850 > 1851 > 1852 > 1853 > 1854 > 1855 > 1856 > 1857 > 1858 > 1859

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Dresdner Maiaufstand.jpg
The May Uprising in Dresden is suppressed by Saxon and Prussian troops.
The year 1849 is a year of reaction, as many of the liberal revolutions of the year before are crushed with military force.

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Pax Brittanica18151915
Victorian era18401901

 

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