March Revolution and April Laws

By Yurina
  • Period: to

    Last Estates-General in Hungary

    deadlock in the nagotiations with the Habsburgs

  • Kossuth's Speech of Address

    1. attacked absolutistic measures of the Habsburg government
    2. abolition of serfdom
    3. general taxation
    4. responsible government
    5. constitution of the nationalities

  • Viennese Revolution

    -Metternich was dismissed
    -Ferdinand V promised a liberal constitution for Austria

  • Kossuth's Speech of Address was passed as a bill

    Parlamentary Delegation led by Batthyány would deliver the bill to the king to sanction

  • Radical young men organized a revolution in Pest-Buda

    -inspired by the Viennese Revolution
    -12 points
    -revolution reached its aim without bloody fights

  • Batthyány officially became the PM of Hungary

    -aristocrat+leader of the Oppostition Party
    -appointed his own ministers

  • April Laws

    Ferdinand V sanctioned the April Laws as a bill