May Conspiracy
May Conspiracy | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Part of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire | |||||||
| |||||||
Belligerents | |||||||
Czech Radical Democrats | Austrian Empire | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Karel Sladkovský Josef Václav Frič Mikhail Bakunin | Franz Joseph I |
The May Conspiracy (Czech: Májové spiknutí) was an unsuccessful attempt of radical democrats in the Czech lands to overthrow the government of Austrian Empire in May 1849.
History
In 1844 a group of
In March 1849,
Prague and a few towns were put under a state of emergency (also called "the siege", stav obležení), press was put under censorship by the military and a military commission was established to investigate the conspiracy. The emergency was only lifted 4½ years later, on 1 September 1853.[1] Seventy-nine young radicals were sentenced to prison, and most of them were released in general amnesty on 8 May 1857. Others fled to Britain, but had to devote their efforts to survival with little ability to further the revolution as exiles.[2]
See also
- Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire
- Forty-Eightersemigrees after 1848
- May Coup (Serbia) in 1903
References
- ISBN 978-0-8179-4493-3.
- ISBN 978-1-78238-979-8.