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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 .
By January 22, 1905, workers in Łódź had been strike, and on January 31, tsarist police reported that the strikers carried placards with the slogans "Down with the autocracy! Down with the war!". [2] Similarly in Warsaw, the former capital of Poland and another major industrial centre, uprisings and demonstrations were common. There was a ...
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.
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.
There was a "radar-confirmed tornado" in Evansville, Indiana, according to a spokesperson with the National Weather Service of Louisville. Live updates: EF-1 tornado touches down in Nelson County ...
At least two people have died in a possible tornado that hit an Ohio mobile home park, and significant injuries and flattened buildings were reported in an Indiana town as severe weather struck ...
Greater Poland uprising (1918–1919) (1 C, 4 P) J. January Uprising (2 C, 18 P) K. Kościuszko Uprising (4 C, 18 P) N. November Uprising (3 C, 19 P) S. Silesian ...
In Winchester, a town of about 5,000 people in eastern Indiana, 38 people were injured, three critically, when an apparent tornado rolled through on Thursday evening, the mayor said.