15th March Anniversary

of the 1848/49 Hungarian

Revolution and War of
Independence
It was one of the many European Revolutions of 1848, but the
bloodless revolution in Pest-Buda, Kingdom of Hungary grew
into a war for independence against the Austrian Empire, ruled
by the Habsburg dynasty.

The revolution started in the Pilvax coffee palace, which was a

favourite meeting point of young radical liberal intellectuals.
On the morning of 15th March, revolutionaries marched
around the city of Pest, reading out poet Sndor Petfi s
Nemzeti dal (National Song) and the 12 points (the twelve
demands) to a crowd of tens of thousands of people.

Declaring an end to all forms of censorship, they visited the

printing press of Landerer and Heckenast and printed Petfis
poem together with the demands.

A mass demonstration was held in front of the newly built

National Museum, after which the group left for the Buda
Chancellery on the other bank of the Danube, and freed the
unlawfully imprisoned unlawfully imprisoned journalist Mihly
Tncsics.

How can be these Petfi Sndor

numbers connected to
Ferenc Jzsef
this event?

1848/1849 Landerer&Heckenhast

12 Tncsics Mihly

13 Batthyny Lajos

15

Who are they?

 12 points

Nemzeti Dal

Pilvax Caf

What are they?