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The painting Germania, possibly by Philipp Veit, hung inside the Frankfurt parliament, the first national parliament in German history. The German revolutions of 1848–1849 (German: Deutsche Revolution 1848/1849), the opening phase of which was also called the March Revolution (German: Märzrevolution), were initially part of the Revolutions of 1848 that broke out in many European countries.
Carl Schurz in 1860. A participant of the 1848 revolution in Germany, he immigrated to the United States and became the 13th United States Secretary of the Interior.. The Forty-eighters (48ers) were Europeans who participated in or supported the Revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe, particularly those who were expelled from or emigrated from their native land following those revolutions.
The Frankfurt National Assembly (German: Frankfurter Nationalversammlung) was the first freely elected parliament for all German states, including the German-populated areas of the Austrian Empire, [1] elected on 1 May 1848 (see German federal election, 1848).
The revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the springtime of the peoples [2] or the springtime of nations, were a series of revolutions throughout Europe over the course of more than one year, from 1848 to 1849.
German revolutions of 1848–49 — occurring in the German Confederation and the Austrian Empire Wikimedia Commons has media related to March Revolution . Subcategories
In the German states, revolutions began in March 1848, starting in Berlin and spreading across the other states which now make up Germany. The heart of the revolutions was in Frankfurt, where the newly formed National Assembly, the Frankfurt Parliament, met in St Paul's Church from May 1848, calling for a constitutional monarchy to rule a new, united German nation.
Vormärz (German pronunciation: [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌmɛʁts] ⓘ; English: pre-March) was a period in the history of Germany preceding the 1848 March Revolution in the states of the German Confederation. The beginning of the period is less well-defined.
The German revolutions of 1848–49 end in failure, as King Frederick William IV of Prussia refuses to accept the offer of the Frankfurt National Assembly, to be crowned as German emperor. Hungarian Revolution of 1848 – Battle of Hatvan : The Hungarian revolutionary army, under the command of András Gáspár , defeats the Austrians , led by ...