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What do Hungarians celebrate on March 15?
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More than 160 years passed, but the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 associated with Petőfi’s name is still commemorated by the Hungarian people. Multiple elements of the 12 points composed by the Pilvax Circle are still a relevant topic in the present, utisugo.hu reports.
A long time under pressure eventually led to a revolution on March 15, 1848. The same monarch ruled over the Kingdom of Hungary and the Austrian Empire, and the National Assembly of Hungary could only hold sessions in Latin or German language. Hungary couldn’t gain autonomy and the lowered taxes alone were not enough for the positive perception of the social opinion climate.
Although the French Revolution of 1789 ended decades ago, it had an enormous influence on the intellectual class. Moreover, the French declared war against the Habsburg Monarchy, which reached the territory of Hungary in 1805. Napoleon then ordered Hungarian nobilities to separate from the Habsburg dynasty, however, he lost the war in 1815. The demand for home products then decreased rapidly and the inflation hit.
Lajos Kossuth informed his nation about the controversy behind the curtain in his periodical called ´Országgyűlési Tudósítások´, which launched in 1832. Consequently, reform movements began to play a bigger role in the country. Count Lajos Batthyány became the leader of the opposition, in which Ferenc Deák also took part. Meanwhile in February 1848, a revolution started in France, then another in Vienna, March 13.
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The last paragraph says ‘10,000 people joined the congress’. We would never use that word to describe a gathering of people for such acts in this modern age. We would say ‘joined the protest’ or just maybe ‘joined the assembly of like minded people’. Nowadays the word Congress is only familiar to people in relation to US politics and it never has the word ‘the’ infront of it. Hope this helps.