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Kossuth was born
Lajos Kossuth was born in Monok to a landless noble family -
Cholera outbreaks
Kossuth became the Commissioner of the Cholera, he saved many lives -
Kossuth was imprisoned for treason
Kossuth loudly demanded the legal declaration of freedom of the press and of speech in Hungary and in the entire Habsburg Empire. And he was arrested in May 1837, with Wesselényi and several others, on a charge of high treason. -
Kossuth was released
Kossuth’s release was rallied on Magyar gentry and small nobility. After his release, Lajos Kossuth becomes most important leader of the reform movement and turns it into Hungarian independence movements -
Speach about the language
Kossuth argued that Hungarian had to be the exclusive language in public life.He also stated that "in one country it is impossible to speak in a hundred different languages. There must be one language and in Hungary this must be Hungarian" -
Hungarian revolution of 1848
On 3 March 1848, shortly after the news of the revolution in Paris had arrived, in a speech of surpassing power he demanded parliamentary government for Hungary and constitutional government for the rest of Austria. He became the minister of finance of Hungary. The April laws were declared and passed. -
Kossuth became the regent president of Hungary
Actually, from this time until the collapse of the revolution, Lajos Kossuth (as elected regent-president) became the de facto and de jure ruler of Hungary. -
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Fled to Great Britain, United States and Italy
After the failure of the revolution, Kossuth firstly went to Great Britain, then went to the US, and spent his final years in Italy. -
The success and the Declaration of Independence
When the Hungarians had won many successes, after sounding the army, he issued the celebrated Hungarian Declaration of Independence, in which he declared that "the house of Habsburg-Lorraine, perjured in the sight of God and man, had forfeited the Hungarian throne." -
The Russian intervention and failure
Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, who acted as the protector of ruling legitimism and as guardian against revolution. Kossuth gave dictatorial power to Görgey, on the ground that in the last extremity, the general alone could save the nation. Görgey surrendered at Világos to the Russians -
The death of Kossuth
Kossuth died in Turin, after which "his body was taken to Pest [Budapest], where he was buried amid the mourning of the whole nation.
