!!!Oktoberrevolution

Oktoberrevolution, the last uprising of the Austrian  Revolution of 
1848. On October 6, 1848 imperial troops from Vienna had orders to 
take up arms against Hungary, which was in a state of rebellion 
against the Habsburgs. Viennese workers, university students and 
mutinous troops sympathising with the Hungarians attempted to prevent 
the departure of the imperial troops. The protests erupted into 
violent street fights, blood being spilt even in St. Stephen´s 
Cathedral. The Minister of War, T.  Latour was lynched by the angry 
crowd. Emperor Ferdinand and the imperial court fled to Olmuetz (now: 
Olomouc) on October 7, and on October 22 the Reichstag was 
relocated to Kremsier (now: Kromeriz). A.  Windisch-Graetz and J.  
Jellacić started the artillery bombardment of Vienna on October 
26, and took Vienna´s Inner City by storm on October 31. 
C. W.  Messenhauser, leader of the rebels, the journalists A.  
Becher and H.  Jellinek as well as R.  Blum were executed; casualties 
in Vienna numbered about 2,000. Most of the concessions gained during 
the  March Revolution were revoked.

!Literature
W. Haeusler, Von der Massenarmut zur Arbeiterbewegung, 
1979.


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