Canut revolts
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The Canut revolts is the collective name for the major revolts by Lyonnais silk workers which occurred in 1831, 1834 and 1848. They were among the first well-defined worker uprisings of the period known as the Industrial Revolution.
Suppression of the Second Canut revolt in April 1834
A Jacquard loom.
Louis-Philippe I, King of the French.
Marshal Soult.
Revolutions of 1848
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The revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the springtime of the peoples or the springtime of nations, were a series of revolutions throughout Europe over the course of more than one year, from 1848 to 1849. It remains the most widespread revolutionary wave in European history to date.
Barricade on the rue Soufflot, an 1848 painting by Horace Vernet. The Panthéon is shown in the background.
The June Uprising of 1848 in Prague injected a strong political element into Czech National Revival.
The revolutionary barricades in Vienna in May 1848
Episode from the Five Days of Milan, painting by Baldassare Verazzi