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etc. At 3 p.m. the rebels surrendered. On
November, 3, the state of siege was
introduced in Lviv. (On January, 10, 1849 the
whole Halychyna was in the state of siege).
Repressions started.
November, 1 The meeting of village communities of the
1848 whole Bukovyna (initiated by L. Kobylytsya)
took place in Chernivtsi. The members rose in
opposition against the Austrian government
intention to separate Bukovyna from
Halychyna.
November, 16 The Reichstag deputy L. Kobylytsya at the
1848 meeting of 2600 peasants in Vyzhnytsya
called them to fight with landlords. The
uprising covered mountainous villages of
Vyzhnytsya and Stirizhynets districts. L.
Kobylytsya’s horsed groups fought against
government troops until the summer of 1849.
The leader was captured in 1850, he died in
October, 1851 after severe tortures.
1848 The first Ukrainian reading hall was opened
in Kolomyia.
1849 ‘The Bach reaction” (by the surname of the
Minister of Internal Affairs) in Halychyna.
After the revolution defeat, the new Emperor
Franz Joseph (Ferdinand I, who was
considered too liberal, abdicated the throne
under the pressure of reactionaries) renounced
nearly all freedoms declared in 1848. The
parliament was dissolved (March, 1849), the
Constitution was abolished. The situation was
even more complicated for Halychyna
Ukrainians, because Ahenor Holukhovsky,

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