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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 ...
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 ...
34) was passed, which consolidated provisions in the law relating to offences against the person and repealed for Ireland almost 60 statutes relating to the Criminal law. By 1848, the institution of Justice of the Peace in England and Wales had fallen into disrepute in some legal circles and was dealing with a rapidly increasing case load, [7 ...
On 11 December 1848, Captain Edward Plunkett's father, Lord Dunsany, died, and the title passed to Edward's elder brother, Randall Plunkett, who became the 15th Baron of Dunsany. Randall married Elizabeth Evelyn in 1838, but the couple had no children, leaving his brother Edward as the presumptive heir. [ 7 ]
Status: Repealed. The Justices Protection Act 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 44) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that gave Justices of the Peace in England and Wales immunity from civil actions arising from their adjudication. The Act was sponsored and drafted by John Jervis and was one of the so-called Jervis Acts of 1848.
On 21 March 1848 he left for Bolzano. A provisional government was established in Modena. In the Papal States, an internal revolt ousted Pope Pius IX from his temporal powers and led to the establishment of the Roman Republic. The municipalities of Menton and Roquebrune united and obtained independence as the Principality of Monaco.
Cover page of the 1848 Constitution Within a few months, the Constituent Assembly had drafted a relatively liberal constitution, turning Luxembourg into a constitutional monarchy. Heavily influenced by the Belgian constitution of 1830, with several articles copied verbatim, it bore the imprint of the Belgian revolutionary period of 1830-1839.
March 29 – John Jacob Astor, businessman (born 1763) April 29 – Chester Ashley, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1844 to 1848 (born 1790) May 18 – William Leidesdorff, businessman (born 1810) June 26 – Stevenson Archer, U.S. Congressman from Maryland from 1819 to 1821 (born 1786) July 20 – Francis R. Shunk, politician (born 1788)