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Events on Wednesday 15 March 1848 1
1848Outbreak of the Hungarian RevolutionPest rises against Habsburg ruleOn 15 March, radicals in Pest, among them the poet Sándor Petőfi, issued the Twelve Points demanding reform and national rights. The Habsburg court gave Hungary its own responsible government under the April Laws. The revolution later became a war of independence against Austria.