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Last Updated: • Article History
Category: History & Society
Date:
January 1848 - c. 1850
Location:
Austria
Europe
France
Germany
Italy
Major Events:
Hungarian Revolution
June Days
Key People:
Friedrich Dahlmann
Frederick William IV
Louis-Philippe
Joseph, Graf Radetzky
Élisée Reclus
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Revolutions of 1848, series of republican revolts against European monarchies, beginning in Sicily and spreading to France, Germany, Italy, and the Austrian Empire. They all ended in failure and repression and were followed by widespread disillusionment among liberals. The revolutionary movement began in Italy with a local revolution in Sicily in January 1848, and, after the revolution of February 24 in France, the movement extended throughout the whole of Europe, with the exception of Russia, Spain, and the Scandinavian countries. In the United Kingdom it amounted to little more than a Chartist demonstration and a republican agitation in Ireland. In ...(100 of 710 words)

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