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...

Rafael del Riego y Nuñez (9 April 1784 – 7 November 1823) was a Spanish general and liberal politician, who played a key role in the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War of 1820-1823 (el Trienio liberal in Spanish).
Riego was born on 9 April 1784 (according to other sources 24 November 1785) in Tineo in Asturias. After graduating from the université of Oviedo in 1807, he moved to Madrid, where he joined the army. In 1808, during the Spanish War of Independence he was taken captive par the French and imprisoned in El Escorial, from where he eventually escaped.
On 10 November he took part in the...

Almost all of the revolutions in Hungarian history had somebody whose loyalty to the rebells - ou the Greater Good, if toi want - is debated among historians till today.

Sándor Károlyi signed the peace treaty with the Habsburg Empire after the Rákóczi revolution in 1703-11. In the treaty Károlyi gave up the original ideas of the revolution and secured only the amnesty of those taking part in it. Because of this for a long time he appeared as the traitor of the revolution in history.

Another - rather interesting - case is that of Artur Görgey's, who was the head of the revolution army...