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Revolutions of 1848: Quick Facts

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Date January 1848 - c. 1850
Location Austria • Europe • France • Germany • Italy

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Key People

Louis-Philippe
Louis-Philippe
king of France
Frederick William IV
Frederick William IV
king of Prussia
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Felix, prince zu Schwarzenberg
prime minister of Austria
Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky
Joseph, Graf Radetzky
Austrian military reformer
Reclus, Élisée
Élisée Reclus
French geographer
Dahlmann, detail from an engraving by Adolf Hohneck, 1844
Friedrich Dahlmann
German historian
Denis-Auguste Affre
Denis-Auguste Affre
archbishop of Paris
Heinrich Gagern, detail from a lithograph by Johann Heinrich Hasselhorst, 1825
Heinrich, baron von Gagern
German politician
Herwegh, engraving by C.A. Gonzenbach after a portrait by C. Hitz
Georg Herwegh
German poet
Crémieux, lithograph by L.-E. Coedès
Adolphe Crémieux
French politician
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Gottfried Kinkel
German poet
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Friedrich, baron von Gagern
German military commander
Friedrich Hecker, lithograph by Valentin Schertle
Friedrich Hecker
German politician
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Ferdinand Kürnberger
Austrian writer
Struve, Gustav von
Gustav von Struve
German revolutionary
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Maximilian, baron von Gagern
German diplomat and politician