Polish uprising 1863 Flashcards
Education reform
=May 20, 1862, Alexander II signed the Law on Public Education for the Kingdom of Poland.
=September 11, 1864, Uni of warsaw re opend
Uni of warsaw re opend
September 11, 1864,
Emancipation
Emancipation Jan 22nd 1864 =700000 freed
Pro Nationalist demonstations
. In Warsaw alone, there were 116 demonstrations in 1861
Movement comittee
October 1861: The “Movement Committee” (Komitet Ruchu Miejskiego) was formed in Warsaw, initiating organized resistance.
Central national comittee
June 1862: The Central National Committee (Komitet Centralny Narodowy, KCN) was established, uniting various resistance groups and setting the stage for coordinated action.
Led by Dabrowski and 5 other arisocracy
Weilpoloski
Believed best interest is to work with russia
Is pro-Russian archconservative head of the civil administration in the Russian partition.
brought forward to January the conscription of young Polish activists into the Imperial Russian Army for 20-year service. Was catalsyt
Conscription enforced
Weilplolski tries to enforce 20 years
January 14 1863: catalyses 12,000 men, including 2,500 from Warsaw, fled to the forests to join the insurgents.
Nationalist protest 1861
February 1861, when the Russian Army attacked a demonstration in Castle Square
5 fatalities
8 April 1891 =, there were 200 killed and 500 wounded by Russian fire. Martial law was imposed in Warsaw
116 demonstrations were held in 1861.
Uprising lithuania
On 1 February 1863, the uprising erupted in the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Repressive consuquences
128 men were hanged under the personal supervision of Mikhail Muravyov
396 persons were executed and 18,600 were exiled to Siberia
Altogether over 60,000 persons were imprisoned and subsequently exiled
Impact serfs
Russian government confiscated 1,600 estates
10% income tax was imposed
social consuqences
The Main School in Warsaw was closed in 1869, replaced by the Imperial University of Warsaw, where all courses were conducted in Russian.
Russia broke the concordat with the Vatican
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Ban polish language and sunday school