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Events on Wednesday 12 January 1848 1
1848Sicilian revolution breaks out in PalermoThe first of the European revolutions of 1848An uprising in Palermo against the Bourbon government of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies began on 12 January. Sicily set up its own independent government. The revolt came before the February Revolution in Paris and is usually counted as the first of the 1848 revolutions.