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January Uprising; Part of the Polish-Russian wars: Poland - The Year 1863, by Jan Matejko, 1864, oil on canvas, 156 × 232 cm, National Museum, Kraków. Pictured is the aftermath of the failed January 1863 Uprising. Captives await transportation to Siberia. Russian officers and soldiers supervise a blacksmith placing shackles on a woman .
The last and most tenacious of the Polish uprisings of the mid-19th century erupted in the Russian-occupied sector in January 1863 (see January Uprising). Following Russia's disastrous defeat in the Crimean War , the government of Tsar Alexander II enacted a series of liberal reforms, including liberation of the serfs throughout the empire.
The National Weather Service has confirmed six EF-1 tornadoes touched down in Kentucky during Tuesday’s storm. The confirmed tornadoes are in Anderson, Bourbon, Boyd, Jessamine, Jefferson and ...
It was designed to be able to unite Poland in a national struggle, and claimed all of the pre-partition Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth lands. The last "dictator" of the National Government was Romuald Traugutt, who was arrested from the night of the 10th to 11 April 1864 by Russian authorities. With his execution, the uprising had its symbolic end.
January Uprising (2 C, 18 P) K. Kościuszko Uprising (4 C, 18 P) N. November Uprising (3 C, 19 P) S. ... Greater Poland uprising (1794) Greater Poland uprising (1846)
Tornadoes swept through the Midwest Thursday, causing widespread damage across Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. Here is the latest, including photos.
A week after a deadly tornado outbreak, families of the victims are still processing the terrible toll. ... Tornado victims include 7 members of Kentucky family. ... Flood Watch issued in Seattle ...
The conspirators decided to start the uprising on the night of January 21/22, 1940, the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1863 January Uprising. In the evening of January 21, between 100 and 250 people gathered in Czortków's Roman Catholic Dominican Church. Most of them were not armed, only a few had guns or knives, some even old-fashioned ...