Revolutions of 1848  

Revolutions of 1848

In 1848 large-scale political upheavals occurred throughout Europe.

No comments | 1845 - June 1848

Play 13 events 2283 views

 
Zooming out would make some of the events flow below the lower edge of the timeline and was thus cancelled.

Zoom out Zoom in

No comments

  • Loading comments..
Hey, log in or sign up to comment! :)

OK Yes No
Close

Revolutions of 1848

13 events | No comments | 1845 - June 1848

1845

Economic and political crisis

Between the years 1845 and 1847 Europe experienced economic crisis. For contemporaries it was clear that it was the precursor for the revolutions of 1848. The problems with food started with the mediocre harvests in the early 1840s...

1845

0 comments

1848-02-24

Revolution in France

The liberal Orleanist monarchy was established in France in the Revolution of 1830. King Louis Philippe had number of opponents. The nobles insisted that the monarchy lacked legitimacy. Republicans demanded that the regime based on popular sovereignty...

24. February 1848

0 comments

1848-03

Popular mass movements

Open and spontaneous clashes broke out in March 1848 all over Europe. They continued through the June. There were periods of calming but the upheavals continued until summer of 1848. In the regions of serfdom, peasants refused to perform their labor...

March 1848

0 comments

1848-03-13

Austria in 1848

The Empire of the Habsburgs was in 1848 the most populous state in Europe except Russia. It consisted of about a dozen nationalities or language groups: Germans, Czechs, Magyars, Poles, Ruthenians, Slovaks, Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Dalmatians,...

13. March 1848

0 comments

1848-03-15

1848 in the German states

From May 1848 to 1849 the Frankfurt Assembly attempted to unify Germany. However, it failed. Frederick William III of Prussia repeatedly evaded his promise to grant a modern constitution. Frederick William IV succeeded to the throne in 1840 but he was...

15. March 1848

0 comments

1848-05

Pan-Slavs and counter-revolution in Austria

After June the revolution began to slow down in France. Old governments were shocked but not broken. The revolutionary leaders did not have decent social base. The middle-class, bourgeois, property-owners were highly developed in Western Europe, but...

May 1848

0 comments

1848-05-13

Revolution breaks out in Italy

In Italy, the war against Austrians was on the background of revolutionary political action. March brought insurrections against Austrian rule. Radicals in the capital city of Naples demanded that the armed forces had to be sent to north to join the...

13. May 1848

0 comments

1848-06

Government and elections

There were several different sources of tension in the governments emerged in the revolutions. The questions were the retention of administrative and military personnel from the previous regimes, the nature of executive authority and the outcome of...

June 1848

0 comments

1848-10

The October crisis

The October crisis marks the attempts of the court of Habsburgs to reassert the authority over the lands of the crown. It provoked a major challenge to imperial authority in the capital and in non-Hungarian provinces...

October 1848

0 comments

1849

The second wave of revolution: new political initiatives

December 1848 is often considered as the end of the revolutionary crisis that began in the spring 1848. However, there were new initiatives of the forces of the revolution in the first half of 1849...

1849

0 comments

1849-03

The spring crisis of 1849 and its outcome

The spring of 1849 threatened the imperial authority of the Habsburgs. One component of the crisis was the Italy. The government ministers of Piedmont-Savoy and King Carlo Alberto found that they need to continue war with Austria...

March 1849

0 comments

1851-01-28

Louis Napoleon Bonaparte

According to the draft of new constitution, a strong executive power in the hands of president was to be created in France. There were four candidates: Lamartine, Cavaignac, Ledru-Rollin and Louis Napoleon Bonaparte...

28. January 1851

0 comments

1855

The legacy of 1848

It is sometimes said that in 1848, European history reached its turning point and then failed to turn. Repressions dashed the hopes of several political groups: liberals, republicans, and nationalists...

1855

0 comments

Thinking..