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The European Revolutions of 1848 were a series of revolts in Europe. In some places they are called Spring of Nations or the Year of Revolution.

These revolutions started in January with a Palermo republican uprising. The larger French Revolution of 1848 in February was followed in March by several other revolutions amongst them the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states. In Ireland, the rebellions began because of famine conditions in their country.

People in the various countries tried to take over their governments.

Images for kids

  • Europe 1848 map en

    Map of Europe in 1848-1849 depicting the main revolutionary centers, important counter-revolutionary troop movements and states with abdications

  • Episodio delle cinque giornate (Baldassare Verazzi)

    Episode from the Five Days of Milan. Painting by Baldassare Verazzi.

  • Maerz1848 berlin

    Revolutionaries in Berlin in March 1848, waving the revolutionary flags

  • Tropper 1849

    Danish soldiers parade through Copenhagen in 1849 after victories in the First Schleswig War

  • The May Assembly 1848 in Sremski Karlovci

    Proclamation of the Serbian Vojvodina in May 1848

  • Jakobey Buda ostroma 2

    The Battle of Buda in May 1849 by Mór Than

  • Komáromi csata II Than 2

    Hungarian hussars in battle during the Hungarian Revolution

  • 1848-revolutia-Romania

    Romanian revolutionaries in Bucharest in 1848, carrying the Romanian tricolor

  • Bruxelles à travers les âges (1884) (14740791186)

    A depiction of Leopold I of Belgium's symbolic offer to resign the crown in 1848

  • Under Marsoroligheterna i Stockholm 1848. Fritz von Dardel - Nordiska Museet - NMA.0035335

    Illustration of the "March troubles" in Stockholm, Sweden in 1848

  • Chartist meeting, Kennington Common

    Chartist meeting on Kennington Common 10 April 1848

  • Rundgemälde Europa 1849

    A caricature by Ferdinand Schröder on the defeat of the revolutions of 1848/49 in Europe (published in Düsseldorfer Monatshefte, August 1849.)


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