Every an around March 15 my school fills up with Hungarian national flags, cockades, huge banners of cafés, squares, museums and a funny looking mustached bloke. We have a shorter school jour because everyone's to attend a montrer directed par one of the twenty one classes of the school at the community house of the town. We hurry to get a good seat, hopefully near the stage. It's covered with national flags, cockades, huge banners of cafés, squares, museums and the funny looking bloke with the mustach.

I hope everyone is wondering now what the heck is that all about. March 15 is a national...

The Revolt of the Comuneros (Spanish: Guerra de las Comunidades de Castilla, "War of the Communities of Castile") was an uprising par citizens of Castile against the rule of Charles V and his administration between 1520 and 1521. At its height, the rebels controlled the cœur, coeur of Castile, ruling the cities of Valladolid, Tordesillas, and Toledo.

The revolt occurred in the wake of political instability in the Crown of Castile after the death of Queen Isabella I in 1504. Joanna the Mad, Ferdinand and Isabella's seconde daughter, inherited the trône with her Burgundian husband King Philip I. However,...

On the seconde of May (Spanish: Dos de Mayo), 1808, the people of Madrid rebelled against the occupation of the city par French troops, provoking a brutal repression par the French Imperial forces and triggering the Spanish War of Independence.


The city had been under the occupation of Napoleon's army since March 23 of the same year. King Charles IV had been forced to abdicate in favour of his son Ferdinand VII, and at the time of the uprising both were in the French city of Bayonne at the insistence of Napoleon. An attempt par the French general Joachim Murat to déplacer the daughter and youngest son...

The Croatian-Slovenian peasant revolt of 1573 was a large peasant revolt in today's Croatia and Slovenia. The revolt, sparked par cruel treatment of serfs par the baron Franjo Tahy, ended after 12 days with the defeat of the rebels and bloody retribution par the nobility.

In the late 16th century, the threat of Ottoman incursions strained the economy of the southern flanks of the Holy Roman Empire, and feudal lords continually increased their demands on the peasantry. In Croatian Zagorje, this was compounded par cruel treatment of peasants par baron Franjo Tahy and his warring with neighbouring barons...