Galician Peasant Uprising of 1846

{{Short description|Revolution in Austrian-controlled Poland}}

{{Short description|Revolution in Austrian-controlled Poland}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}

{{Infobox military conflict

| conflict = Galician Peasant Uprising of 1846

| place = [[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria|Galicia]], [[Austrian Partition|Austrian partition of Poland]]

| date = February – March 1846

| image = Galician slaughter in 1846.PNG

| caption = ''Galician Slaughter'' by [[Jan Lewicki]] (1795–1871) depicts Austrian officers paying salt and cash to peasants delivering the severed heads of Polish noblemen. While this never actually happened, the picture illustrates the myth prevalent among the Polish elite.<ref>{{citation|last=Clark|first=Christopher|author-link=Christopher Clark|title=Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848–1849|page=81|year=2023|quote=None of this actually happened, but Lewicki's powerful image captures the key elements of the Polish elite memory of 1846 in Galicia.}}</ref>

| combatant1 = {{flagicon|Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria}} Galician peasants

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'''Supported by:''' <br>{{flagicon|Austrian Empire}} [[Imperial Austrian Army (1806–1867)|Imperial Austrian Army]]

| combatant2 = {{flagicon|Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria}} Galician ''szlachta''

| commander1 = [[Jakub Szela]]<br>[[Joseph Breinl von Wallerstern]]

| commander2 =

| result = [[Abolition of serfdom in Poland|Abolition of serfdom]]

| casualties2 = 1,000–2,000

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{{History of Poland}}

{{History of Poland}}

[[File:Galician slaughter in 1846.PNG|thumb|350px|right|"Rzeź galicyjska" (Galician Masscre) by [[Jan Lewicki]] (1795–1871) depicts Austrian officers paying salt and cash to peasants delivering the severed heads of Polish noblemen. While this never actually happened, the picture illustrates the myth prevalent among the Polish elite.<ref>{{citation|last=Clark|first=Christopher|author-link=Christopher Clark|title=Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848–1849|page=81|year=2023|quote=None of this actually happened, but Lewicki's powerful image captures the key elements of the Polish elite memory of 1846 in Galicia.}}</ref>]]

[[File:Rabacja galicyjska a powstanie krakowskie.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Theatre of the Galician [[Peasant movement|peasant war]] of 1846 (red) in relation to the Kraków Uprising (blue)]]

[[File:Rabacja galicyjska a powstanie krakowskie.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Theatre of the Galician [[Peasant movement|peasant war]] of 1846 (red) in relation to the Kraków Uprising (blue)]]

The '''Galician Peasant Uprising of 1846''', also known as the '''Galician Rabacja''',<ref name="Nance2008">{{cite book|author=Agnieszka Barbara Nance|title=Literary and Cultural Images of a Nation Without a State: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Poland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I9S5g8mpgj0C&pg=PA62|year=2008|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-0-8204-7866-1|pages=62–64}}</ref> '''Galician Slaughter''',<ref name="Janowski2004">{{cite book|author=Maciej Janowski|title=Polish Liberal Thought Before 1918|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ieF7NYaEqQYC&pg=PA99|year=2004|publisher=Central European University Press|isbn=978-963-9241-18-3|page=99}}</ref> or the '''Szela Uprising'''<ref name=Narkiewicz>{{cite book|author=Olga A. Narkiewicz|title=The Green Flag: Polish Populist Politics, 1867–1970|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mn4OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA19|year=1976|publisher=Croom Helm|isbn=978-0-87471-824-9|pages=18–19}}</ref> ({{langx|de|Galizischer Bauernaufstand}}; {{langx|pl|Rzeź galicyjska}} or ''Rabacja galicyjska''), was a two-month uprising of [[poverty in Austrian Galicia|impoverished Austrian Galician]]{{Ref_label|a|a|none}} [[peasants]] that led to the suppression of the [[szlachta]] uprising ([[Kraków Uprising]]) and the massacre of szlachta in [[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria|Galicia]], in the [[Austrian Partition]] zone, in early 1846. The uprising, which lasted from February to March, primarily affected the lands around the town of [[Tarnów]].<ref name=pwn>{{in lang|pl}} [http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=3965088 rabacja galicyjska] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607152642/http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=3965088 |date=7 June 2011}} in [[Internetowa encyklopedia PWN]]</ref>

The '''Galician Peasant Uprising of 1846''', also known as the '''Galician Rabacja''',<ref name="Nance2008">{{cite book|author=Agnieszka Barbara Nance|title=Literary and Cultural Images of a Nation Without a State: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Poland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I9S5g8mpgj0C&pg=PA62|year=2008|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-0-8204-7866-1|pages=62–64}}</ref> '''Galician Slaughter''',<ref name="Janowski2004">{{cite book|author=Maciej Janowski|title=Polish Liberal Thought Before 1918|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ieF7NYaEqQYC&pg=PA99|year=2004|publisher=Central European University Press|isbn=978-963-9241-18-3|page=99}}</ref> or the '''Szela Uprising'''<ref name=Narkiewicz>{{cite book|author=Olga A. Narkiewicz|title=The Green Flag: Polish Populist Politics, 1867–1970|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mn4OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA19|year=1976|publisher=Croom Helm|isbn=978-0-87471-824-9|pages=18–19}}</ref> ({{langx|de|Galizischer Bauernaufstand}}; {{langx|pl|Rzeź galicyjska}} or ''Rabacja galicyjska''), was a two-month uprising of [[poverty in Austrian Galicia|impoverished Austrian Galician]]{{Ref_label|a|a|none}} [[peasants]] that led to the suppression of the [[szlachta]] uprising ([[Kraków Uprising]]) and the massacre of szlachta in [[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria|Galicia]], in the [[Austrian Partition]] zone, in early 1846. The uprising, which lasted from February to March, primarily affected the lands around the town of [[Tarnów]].<ref name=pwn>{{in lang|pl}} [http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=3965088 rabacja galicyjska] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607152642/http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=3965088 |date=7 June 2011}} in [[Internetowa encyklopedia PWN]]</ref>