The revolutions of 1848

1. Poor harvests led to increase food prices and radical political attitude

1.1. Typhus fever was a problem

2. France was a monarchy under under Louis Phillipe with liberal monarchy

2.1. 1848 authorities banned a banquet and caused a protest.

2.2. Participants challenged government by participating in toasts

2.3. Electoral reform and parliamentary reform

2.4. Extreme individuals attacked soldiers. This established provisional government of French Republic

3. Emperor of Austria authorized convening of a Hungarian political assembly

3.1. Hungarian Magyar kingdom established after Magyars

3.2. Austrian authorities were unprepared for protests

4. March

5. March 1848

5.1. Austrian Emperor abolished Robot obligation

6. Social and political reform was encouraged

6.1. Pope Pius XI followed Liberal policies

7. The telegraph system

7.1. Allowed rapid news to reach all of Europe quickly

8. Federal Diet of German confederation(March 8) declared revision of the constitution.

9. Vienna 13th March

9.1. Students paraded through streets supporting Liberalism

9.2. Citizens alienated by military force against citizens

10. Germanic national liberal enthusiasm

10.1. Resulted in German colors being worn by students in Austrian cities

10.2. Austrians participated in Committee of Fifty