Revolution

1848-9 revolution in Germany

By Franz Sykora

  • Fall of Bastille

    Start of the French revolution. King Luis XVI killed

  • Battle at Waterloo

    Napoleon Bonaparte defeated and deported to Sant-Helens island
  • Period: to

    Economic crisis

    Bad harvest caused famine, killing 500000 people in Ireland

  • The end of a king\trigger of revolutions in Europe

    on 24 February 1848 King Louis-Philippe was overthrown and a republic wa established

  • Meeting in Hilderberg

    Te desions of the 51 representatives were published in the Declaration od Heidelberg

  • Demonstration of workers in Berlin

  • Speech of King Frederick William

  • Vorparlament

    The 574 representatives met in St Pauls Church in Frankfurt

  • Apointment of the Kings uncle Count Brandemburg to head the new ministry

  • Fifty articles of the fundamental rights of the german citizen

  • Finally

    in this month the parlament finally agreed on a national constitution

  • End of the Parlament

    The parlament was dissolved by Kings soldiers