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State changes

  1. 1795 Annexed byAustriaAustriaGermanyGermanyRussiaRussia
  2. 1918 Independent ofAustriaAustriaGermanyGermanyRussiaRussia
  3. 1939 Annexed byGermanyGermanySoviet UnionSoviet Union
  4. 1945 Independent ofGermanyGermany

Directly involved historical events 27View all

  1. 1848–1849The Revolutions of 1848Amid the failed harvests and industrial recession of 1845–1847…
  2. 1848.03–1849.07The German Revolution of 1848–1849At the end of the Vormärz, with its harvest failures, pauperism and…
  3. 1893–1896The Early Disputes of the Second InternationalThe Zurich congress of 1893 expelled Landauer and the anarchists…
  4. 1917–1921Ukraine’s revolution and warsThe Central Rada formed in Kyiv in March 1917 began by seeking…
  5. 1917.03–1921.03The Belarusian People’s Republic and Soviet BelarusA Belarusian national movement arose in 1917, but real power in Minsk…
  6. 1918–1922The Civil War and Foreign InterventionFrom 1918 to 1922 the Soviet republic fought for its survival…
  7. 1918–1923The aftermath of the First World War: peace treaties and the revolutionary waveAs Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary and Germany signed…
  8. 1918.11–1920.10Baltic wars of independence and border settlementsAfter Germany's collapse in November 1918 the new governments of…
  9. 1919–1921The Soviet-Polish WarThe Soviet-Polish War was fought from 1919 to 1921 between reborn…
  10. 1934–1939The Comintern’s Popular Front turnHaving treated social democracy as its main enemy from 1928, the…
  11. 1939–1945Axis-occupied Europe: collaboration and resistanceAt their peak in 1941–1942 the Axis powers ruled more than half of…
  12. 1939.08–1940.08The Nazi-Soviet Pact and the Partition of Eastern EuropeThe Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed on the night of 23 August 1939…
  13. 1939.09–1941.06The annexation of the Baltic states and the June 1941 deportationUnder the secret protocol of the Nazi–Soviet Pact, the Soviet Union…
  14. 1941–1945The Great Patriotic WarThe Great Patriotic War, opened by Nazi Germany with a surprise…
  15. 1941.06–1944.11The Baltic states under German occupation: from the June Uprising through the Holocaust to the retreat of 1944When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, the June Uprising…
  16. 1944–1948Poland: From the Lublin Committee to the United Workers' PartyWhen the Soviet-sponsored Polish Committee of National Liberation…
  17. 1944–1949The People's Democracies of Eastern EuropeFrom the summer of 1944, coalition governments with communist…
  18. 1944.03–1945.02Hungary under German occupation: from Operation Margarethe to the siege of BudapestOn 19 March 1944 German troops occupied Hungary, which had been…
  19. 1944.08–10Warsaw UprisingThe Warsaw Uprising was an armed rising by the Polish Home Army from…
  20. 1945–1948Czechoslovakia: from the Košice programme to February 1948In the National Front coalition launched by the Košice programme of…
  21. 1953–1956Eastern Europe after Stalin: the crises of 1953–1956After Stalin’s death in March 1953 the collective leadership of…
  22. 1955The Founding of the Warsaw PactThe Warsaw Pact (formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and…
  23. 1956–1957From the Hundred Flowers to the Anti-Rightist CampaignAfter Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin and the Hungarian…
  24. 1956.06The Poznań UprisingThe Poznań Uprising was an armed workers' revolt against the…
  25. 1968The Prague SpringThe Prague Spring was a reform movement in Czechoslovakia in 1968 led…
  26. 1980–1981Solidarity and Martial Law in PolandIn the summer of 1980, a strike at the Gdańsk Lenin Shipyard against…
  27. 1989The Revolutions of 1989In 1989 one-party communist systems fell in quick succession across…

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Polish general of the November Uprising who became commander-in-chief of the Hungarian revolutionary army in 1849

Born in 1791, he entered the Polish army of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809, took part in most of Napoleon's eastern campaigns and fought at Leipzig in 1813. After Napoleon's fall he sat in the Sejm of Congress Poland. In the November Uprising of 1830 he led Polish forces with success, and in 1831, after his campaign in Lithuania, he was promoted to divisional general and briefly served as Polish commander-in-chief. After the uprising he emigrated to France, where he became a prominent politician of Czartoryski's Hôtel Lambert. In the Hungarian revolution he commanded the Northern Army, and on 29 January 1849 Kossuth appointed him commander-in-chief, but hampered by Görgei's jealousy he resigned after defeat at Kápolna. After the battle of Temesvár and Kossuth's resignation he fled to the Ottoman Empire and entered the sultan's service; in 1850 he returned to Paris, where he died in 1864.

Career timeline
  • 1809–1813Fought in the Napoleonic Wars in the army of the Duchy of Warsaw
  • 1830–1831General and briefly commander-in-chief in the November Uprising
  • 1849Commander-in-chief of the Hungarian revolutionary army
  • 1850–1864Exile in Paris

Polish general of the November Uprising who led the Sardinian army in all but name and lost to Radetzky at Novara in 1849

Born at Biskupice in 1793, he began his military career as an artilleryman in 1810 and took part in Napoleon's Russian campaign. From 1815 he served in the army of the Kingdom of Poland, began a map of the kingdom in 1822 and fought in the Russian army under Diebitsch against the Ottomans in 1828–1829. In the November Uprising he became chief of the general staff and a divisional general, and was governor of Warsaw from 18 August to 6 September 1831. After the defeat he emigrated to Paris and was sent by the British government to assist Ottoman military reforms. After the armistice of 1848 Charles Albert called him in as chief of staff of the Piedmontese army; in 1849 he led it in all but name, but was outmanoeuvred and defeated by Radetzky at Novara and dismissed from Sardinian service. He died in Paris in 1861.

Career timeline
  • 1812Napoleon's Russian campaign
  • 1815–1831Officer of the army of the Kingdom of Poland
  • 1831Chief of staff in the November Uprising; governor of Warsaw
  • 1848–1849Chief of staff of the Piedmontese army

Polish general of the November Uprising who led the defence of Vienna in 1848 and the Hungarian campaign in Transylvania

Born at Tarnów in Galicia in 1794, he joined the army of the Duchy of Warsaw and served in the invasion of Russia in 1812 and the defence of Danzig in 1813. He joined the Polish November Uprising against Russia in 1830 and became a brigadier general, then lived in exile in Paris. In October 1848 he led the defence of Vienna, and after its fall went to Hungary to offer his services to Kossuth. Entrusted with the defence of Transylvania, he won at Piski in February 1849 and in March drove out the Austrian and Russian troops, but his army was annihilated at Segesvár on 31 July and he was seriously wounded at Temesvár on 9 August. Fleeing to the Ottoman Empire, he converted to Islam and served as governor of Aleppo as Murad Pasha, dying of malaria in 1850.

Career timeline
  • 1830–1831Polish officer and brigadier general in the November Uprising
  • 1848Led the defence of Vienna
  • 1848–1849Commander of the Hungarian army in Transylvania
  • 1849–1850Ottoman governor of Aleppo
National liberation and anti-colonial movements Poland Poland 1814–1878 ○ Died in exile

Polish émigré general who commanded the Posen rising of 1848 and then the revolutionary armies of Sicily and Baden

Born in 1814 at Nemours in France, the son of a Polish officer, he grew up in Congress Poland. He fought as a lieutenant in the November Uprising, emigrated to France and worked in émigré bodies such as the Polish Democratic Society. Chosen to lead the Greater Poland rising of 1846, he was arrested by the Prussian authorities and sentenced to death in December 1847, then amnestied by Frederick William IV in the Berlin revolution of March 1848. He commanded the Greater Poland Uprising of 1848, served as chief of staff of the Sicilian revolutionary army at Palermo from December 1848 to April 1849, and in 1849 commanded the insurgents of Baden and the Palatinate. After the defeat he returned to Paris. In 1863 he became the first dictator of the January Uprising but resigned after two defeats. He died in Paris in 1878.

Career timeline
  • 1830–1831Lieutenant in the November Uprising
  • 1846–1848Arrested preparing the Greater Poland rising, sentenced to death, amnestied
  • 1848Commander of the Greater Poland Uprising
  • 1848–1849Chief of staff of the Sicilian revolutionary army
  • 1849Commander of the Baden and Palatinate insurgents
  • 1863Dictator of the January Uprising

People by national background 120View all

Polish general of the November Uprising who became commander-in-chief of the Hungarian revolutionary army in 1849

Born in 1791, he entered the Polish army of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809, took part in most of Napoleon's eastern campaigns and fought at Leipzig in 1813. After Napoleon's fall he sat in the Sejm of Congress Poland. In the November Uprising of 1830 he led Polish forces with success, and in 1831, after his campaign in Lithuania, he was promoted to divisional general and briefly served as Polish commander-in-chief. After the uprising he emigrated to France, where he became a prominent politician of Czartoryski's Hôtel Lambert. In the Hungarian revolution he commanded the Northern Army, and on 29 January 1849 Kossuth appointed him commander-in-chief, but hampered by Görgei's jealousy he resigned after defeat at Kápolna. After the battle of Temesvár and Kossuth's resignation he fled to the Ottoman Empire and entered the sultan's service; in 1850 he returned to Paris, where he died in 1864.

Career timeline
  • 1809–1813Fought in the Napoleonic Wars in the army of the Duchy of Warsaw
  • 1830–1831General and briefly commander-in-chief in the November Uprising
  • 1849Commander-in-chief of the Hungarian revolutionary army
  • 1850–1864Exile in Paris

Polish general of the November Uprising who led the Sardinian army in all but name and lost to Radetzky at Novara in 1849

Born at Biskupice in 1793, he began his military career as an artilleryman in 1810 and took part in Napoleon's Russian campaign. From 1815 he served in the army of the Kingdom of Poland, began a map of the kingdom in 1822 and fought in the Russian army under Diebitsch against the Ottomans in 1828–1829. In the November Uprising he became chief of the general staff and a divisional general, and was governor of Warsaw from 18 August to 6 September 1831. After the defeat he emigrated to Paris and was sent by the British government to assist Ottoman military reforms. After the armistice of 1848 Charles Albert called him in as chief of staff of the Piedmontese army; in 1849 he led it in all but name, but was outmanoeuvred and defeated by Radetzky at Novara and dismissed from Sardinian service. He died in Paris in 1861.

Career timeline
  • 1812Napoleon's Russian campaign
  • 1815–1831Officer of the army of the Kingdom of Poland
  • 1831Chief of staff in the November Uprising; governor of Warsaw
  • 1848–1849Chief of staff of the Piedmontese army

Polish general of the November Uprising who led the defence of Vienna in 1848 and the Hungarian campaign in Transylvania

Born at Tarnów in Galicia in 1794, he joined the army of the Duchy of Warsaw and served in the invasion of Russia in 1812 and the defence of Danzig in 1813. He joined the Polish November Uprising against Russia in 1830 and became a brigadier general, then lived in exile in Paris. In October 1848 he led the defence of Vienna, and after its fall went to Hungary to offer his services to Kossuth. Entrusted with the defence of Transylvania, he won at Piski in February 1849 and in March drove out the Austrian and Russian troops, but his army was annihilated at Segesvár on 31 July and he was seriously wounded at Temesvár on 9 August. Fleeing to the Ottoman Empire, he converted to Islam and served as governor of Aleppo as Murad Pasha, dying of malaria in 1850.

Career timeline
  • 1830–1831Polish officer and brigadier general in the November Uprising
  • 1848Led the defence of Vienna
  • 1848–1849Commander of the Hungarian army in Transylvania
  • 1849–1850Ottoman governor of Aleppo
National liberation and anti-colonial movements Poland Poland 1814–1878 ○ Died in exile

Polish émigré general who commanded the Posen rising of 1848 and then the revolutionary armies of Sicily and Baden

Born in 1814 at Nemours in France, the son of a Polish officer, he grew up in Congress Poland. He fought as a lieutenant in the November Uprising, emigrated to France and worked in émigré bodies such as the Polish Democratic Society. Chosen to lead the Greater Poland rising of 1846, he was arrested by the Prussian authorities and sentenced to death in December 1847, then amnestied by Frederick William IV in the Berlin revolution of March 1848. He commanded the Greater Poland Uprising of 1848, served as chief of staff of the Sicilian revolutionary army at Palermo from December 1848 to April 1849, and in 1849 commanded the insurgents of Baden and the Palatinate. After the defeat he returned to Paris. In 1863 he became the first dictator of the January Uprising but resigned after two defeats. He died in Paris in 1878.

Career timeline
  • 1830–1831Lieutenant in the November Uprising
  • 1846–1848Arrested preparing the Greater Poland rising, sentenced to death, amnestied
  • 1848Commander of the Greater Poland Uprising
  • 1848–1849Chief of staff of the Sicilian revolutionary army
  • 1849Commander of the Baden and Palatinate insurgents
  • 1863Dictator of the January Uprising