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1848
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January,
outbreak of revolutionary events in the South of
Italy. Revolution in Palermo. |
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Marx
completes "Manifesto of Communist
Party". At the end of January, the manuscript
is sent to London for printing. |
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Engels
arrives in Brussels, after being expelled from
Paris for revolutionary activity among
workers. |
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February
22-24, Revolution in France. |
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"Manifesto
of Communist Party", the first program
document of scientific communism, written by Marx
and Engels, comes off the press in London. |
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March
5, expelled from Belgium, Marx and his
family come to Paris. Engels writes a letter to
the editor of "Northern Star" exposing
the unlawful action of Belgian government towards
Marx and his wife. The letter is published in the
newspaper on March 25. |
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March, in
Paris, German Workers' Club is set up to Marx'
initiative. In its meeting, Marx speaks against
the adventurism plans of "exporting
revolution" offered by petty-bourgeois
refugees in Paris. |
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March
11, Marx is elected Chairman of Central
Authority of Communist League. Engels, still in
Brussels, is appointed member of Central Authority
in his absence. |
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March
13, revolutionary events erupt in Vienna. |
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March
18-19, Outbreak of revolution in Germany.
Barricade fighting in Berlin. |
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March
21, Engels comes to Paris (from Brussels),
where he at once plunges into the work of Central
Authority of the Communist League. |
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March
21-29, Marx and Engels write the
"Demands of Communist Party in Germany",
political platform of Communist League in German
bourgeois-democratic revolution. It is published
in the form of leaflets and is distributed
together with "Manifesto of Communist
Party" to workers returning to Germany. |
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April,
Marx, Engels and a group of their comrades-in-arms
go to Germany to take direct part in revolution. |
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April
11, Marx and Engels come to Cologne, where
they lay the ground for publishing a political
daily newspaper. |
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May
31, the first issue of "Neue
Rheinische Zeitung", dated June 1, appears;
Marx is the paper's editor-in-chief and
Engels is his closest assistant. |
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May-June,
"Neue Rheinische Zeitung" publishes
Engels' articles about revolutionary events in
Europe. |
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June
23-26, an
uprising of Paris proletariat. "Neue
Rheinische Zeitung" regularly prints articles
on the course of uprising, most of those by
Frederick Engels. |
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September
13, In view of political crisis in Germany,
"Neue Rheinische Zeitung" sponsors a
mass meeting in Colognr to organize a rebuff of
the counter-revolution. The meeting elects a
Committee of Public Safety, which includes Marx,
Engels and other editors of "Neue Rheinische
Zeitung". It is to be the organizing center
of the revolutionary struggle. |
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September
26, "Neue Rheinische Zeitung" is
suspended following the defeat of Frankfurt
uprising and the introduction of a state of siege
in Cologne.
Engels leaves for Brussels, from where he goes to
Switzerland via France. From Switzerland, Engels
writes articles for "Neue Rheinische Zeitung". |
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October
6-31, an uprising in Vienna ending in
victory for the counter-revolution. |
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October
12, "Neue Rheinische Zeitung"
resumes publication. |
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