1848
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1848 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1848th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 848
Cheering revolutionaries in Berlin, on March 19, 1848, with the new flag of Germany
French Revolution of 1848: Republican riots force King Louis Philippe I to abdicate
German National Assembly's meeting in St. Paul's Church
Battle of Pákozd in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848
Sicilian revolution of 1848
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The Sicilian revolution of 1848 was the first of the numerous Revolutions of 1848 which swept across Europe. It was a popular rebellion against the rule of Ferdinand II of the House of Bourbon, King o
1848
…January 3 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia. January 12 – Sicilian revolution of 1848: The Palermo rising erupts in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. January 24 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold…
The revolution in Palermo (12 January 1848)
Allegorical print of the time depicting the expulsion of Neapolitan troops (represented by Pulcinella) from Sicily at the beginning of the revolt
The Sicilian revolution of 1848, which was characterised by a wide use of the Italian tricolour. Fighting outside Palermo Cathedral
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