March Revolution and April Laws

Last Estates-General in Hungary

Period: 1847 to 1848

deadlock in the nagotiations with the Habsburgs

Kossuth's Speech of Address

Mar 3, 1848

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

Mar 13, 1848

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

Kossuth's Speech of Address was passed as a bill

Mar 14, 1848

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

Radical young men organized a revolution in Pest-Buda

Mar 15, 1848

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

Batthyány officially became the PM of Hungary

Mar 17, 1848

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

April Laws

Apr 11, 1848

Ferdinand V sanctioned the April Laws as a bill