May Conspiracy
The May Conspiracy ( cs, Májové spiknutí) was an unsuccessful attempt of radical democrats in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (1648–1867), Czech lands to overthrow the government of Austrian Empire in May 1849. History In 1844 a group of Radical democracy, Czech Radical Democrats which included both Czechs and Czech Germans formed a secret political club called "Repeal (political club), Repeal". This was named after the mass Irish movement to repeal the Act of Union 1800, Act of Union from 1800. Among the leaders were Josef Václav Frič, Karel Sabina, Karel Sladkovský, Emanuel Arnold and Vilém Gauč. The club attracted radical students and local intelligentsia and remained active after revolutions of 1848 were suppressed. In March 1849, Mikhail Bakunin, a Russian Pan Slavism, Pan Slavic revolutionary, visited Prague and suggested to organize an armed uprising in Prague and several German-speaking cities as a response to post-1848 political reaction. The date of the uprisin ...
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Revolutions Of 1848 In The Austrian Empire
The Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire were a set of revolutions that took place in the Austrian Empire from March 1848 to November 1849. Much of the revolutionary activity had a nationalist character: the Empire, ruled from Vienna, included ethnic Germans, Hungarians, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Ruthenians (Ukrainians), Romanians, Croats, Venetians and Serbs; all of whom attempted in the course of the revolution to either achieve autonomy, independence, or even hegemony over other nationalities. The nationalist picture was further complicated by the simultaneous events in the German states, which moved toward greater German national unity. Besides these nationalists, liberal and even socialist currents resisted the Empire's longstanding conservatism. Preamble The events of 1848 were the product of mounting social and political tensions after the Congress of Vienna of 1815. During the "pre-March" period, the already conservative Austrian Empire moved furthe ...
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