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The April Laws, also called March Laws, [1][2] were a collection of laws legislated by Lajos Kossuth with the aim of modernizing the Kingdom of Hungary into a parliamentary democracy, nation state. The laws were passed by the Hungarian Diet in March 1848 in Pozsony (Pressburg, now Bratislava, Slovakia) [3] and signed by king Ferdinand V at the ...
9 June 1848. An Act to alter, amend, and enlarge the Powers and Provisions of an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, [c] for establishing and governing the Magdalen Hospital. Port of London (Public Sufferance Wharves) Act 1848 (repealed) 11 & 12 Vict. c. xviii.
1st: December 6, 1847 – August 14, 1848. 2nd: December 4, 1848 – March 3, 1849. The 30th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1847, to March 4 ...
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. [1] It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". [2][3] Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848. Attracting widespread attention, it was ...
The Great Māhele ("to divide or portion") or just the Māhele was the Hawaiian land redistribution proposed by King Kamehameha III. The Māhele was one of the most important episodes of Hawaiian history, second only to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. While intended to provide secure title to indigenous Hawaiians, it separated many of ...
The new suffrage law (Act V of 1848) transformed the old feudal estates based parliament (Estates General) into a democratic representative parliament. This law offered the widest suffrage right in Europe at the time. [41] The first general parliamentary elections were held in June, which were based on popular representation instead of feudal ...
The Diet then passed the April laws that established equality before the law, a legislature, a hereditary constitutional monarchy, and an end to the transfer and restrictions of land use. [ 42 ] The revolution grew into a war for independence from the Habsburg monarchy when Josip Jelačić , Ban of Croatia , crossed the border to restore their ...
April Laws, a series of laws passed by the Hungarian Diet in March 1848, and signed by the King in April of that year Index of articles associated with the same name This article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names).