[VoeH] 15th of March - National day of Hungary

Day 2,672, 09:21 • Published in Hungary Serbia • by Voice of eHungary

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Today is 15th of March. It's an important day in the Hungarian history the day of Hungarian Revolution of 1848. I would like to write about this to you 🙂


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The Hungarian Revolution of 1848 was one of the many European Revolutions of 1848 and closely linked to other revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
The revolution in the Kingdom of Hungary grew into a war for independence from the royal rule of Habsburg kings.

It's leaders were Lajos Kossuth, István Széchenyi, Sándor Petőfi and Józef Bem. The anniversary of the Revolution's outbreak, 15 March, is one of Hungary's three national holidays.


Artist Mihály Zichy's painting of Sándor Petőfi reciting the National Poem to a crowd on March 15, 1848

The revolution started in the Pilvax coffee palace at Pest, which was a favourite meeting point of the young extra-parliamentary radical liberal intellectuals in the 1840s. The news about the revolutions of the great European cities had an immediate effect on the infatuation of young radical intellectuals.
Poet Sándor Petőfi was the leader figure of the revolutionaries, his friends were the philosopher and historian Pál Vasvári and the novel-writer Mór Jókai, columnist and lawyer Gyula Bulyovszky met at Pilvax Cafe, where Petőfi recited his famous Nemzeti dal (National Song), which was written by him as a revolutionary poem on the previous day. They have decided the visitation of the faculties of the universities of Pest, where the university students, their main solid social basis and friends located.
First they attended the faculty of law at Egyetem street, where an improvised podium was raised for Petőfi, who read the 12 demands and recited the National Song. Their second stop was at the medical university in Újvilág street, where the enthusiasm was the same, the medical students joined to the revolution. Their third stop was at the university of technology with the same success, their fourth stop was at university of liberal arts who are also joined to the revolutionary masses.

Declaring an end to all forms of censorship, the revolutionaries occupied the Landerer and Heckenast printing-house (one of the largest printing-house of the city) and printed Petőfi's poem together with the twelve demands.

The largest mass demonstration was held in front of the newly built National Museum, after which the group left for the Buda Chancellery (the Office of the Governor-General) on the other bank of the Danube.
The bloodless mass demonstrations in Pest and Buda forced the Imperial governor to accept all twelve of their demands.

The 12 points:


"What the Hungarian nation wants.

Let there be peace, liberty, and concord."

1. We demand the freedom of the press, the abolition of censorship.
2. Independent Hungarian government in Buda-Pest.
3. Annual national assembly in Pest.
4. Civil and religious equality before the law.
5. National army.
6. Equal distribution of [tax] burdens.
7. Abolition of socage [land tenure].
8. Juries and courts based on an equal legal representation.
9. A national bank.
10. The army must take an oath on the Constitution, send our soldiers home and take foreign soldiers away.
11. Setting free the political prisoners.
12. Union [with Transylvania]

Austria had its own problems with the revolution in Vienna that year, and it initially acknowledged Hungary's government. Therefore the Governor-General's officers, acting in the name of the King appointed Hungary's new parliament with Lajos Batthyány as it's first Prime Minister.

On 23 March 1848, as head of state, Batthyány commended his government to the Diet.
The first responsible Hungarian government was forme😛
Prime Minister: Lajos Batthyány
Minister of the Interior: Bertalan Szemere,
Finance minister: Lajos Kossuth,
Minister of Justice: Ferenc Deák,
Minister of defense: Lázár Mészáros,
Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade: Gábor Klauzál,
Minister of Labour, Infrastructure and Transport: István Széchenyi,
Minister of Education, Science and Culture: József Eötvös,
Minister besides the King (roughly Foreign Minister): Pál Antal Esterházy


Members of the Batthyány government

After the end of Summer of 1848 the Habsburgs attacked Hungary, and the Revolution war has begun...


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