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The French Revolution of 1848 (French: Révolution française de 1848), also known as the February Revolution (Révolution de février), was a period of civil unrest in France, in February 1848, that led to the collapse of the July Monarchy and the foundation of the French Second Republic. It sparked the wave of revolutions of 1848.
Pastry War: Victorious French troops withdraw from Mexico after their demands were satisfied. 1848: February: February Revolution or French Revolution of 1848: Republican riots forced King Louis-Philippe to abdicate and flee to England. 20 December: Louis Napoleon Bonaparte starts his term as the first president of the French Republic.
Cochinchina (southern Vietnam) becomes a French colony; Second Italian War of Independence (1859) Location: Lombardy–Venetia, Piedmont and the Austrian Littoral. French Empire Kingdom of Sardinia Supported By: United Principalities: Austrian Empire Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia: Franco-Sardinian victory Expedition of the Thousand (1860–61)
Cobban, Alfred. "The Beginning of the French Revolution" History 30#111 (1945), pp. 90–98; online. Doyle, William. The Oxford History of the French Revolution (3rd ed. 2018) excerpt; Mignet, François, Member of the Institute of France, History of the French Revolution, from 1789 to 1814, Bell & Daldy, London, 1873. Popkin, Jeremy.
The July Revolution was a second French Revolution. It led to the overthrow of King Charles X, the French Bourbon monarch, and the ascent of his cousin Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans. After 18 precarious years on the throne, Louis-Philippe was overthrown in the French Revolution of 1848.
The French Revolution of 1848 led to the creation of the French Second Republic. The Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states. The Revolutions of 1848 in the German states. The Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire. The Hungarian Revolution of 1848 grew into a war for independence from Austrian Empire. The Slovak Uprising of 1848–49.
The Second Republic of France is set up, ending the state of temporary government lasting since the Revolution of 1848. 10 December - Presidential election held. Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected president of the French Republic. 20 December - President Bonaparte takes his oath of office in front of the French National Assembly.
Taken together, the two revolutions can be thought of as echoing aspects of the French Second Republic: the Spanish Revolution of 1854, as a revolt by Radicals and Liberals against the oligarchical, conservative-liberal parliamentary monarchy of the 1830s, mirrored the French Revolution of 1848; while the Spanish Revolution of 1856, as a ...