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Part of Warsaw History article:

... il 1791 the new statute was entered in the city books and since the two hundredth anniversary of this event i.e. 1991 the local government of Warsaw has been celebrating the Warsaw Day on 21 April. The victorious rule of Targowica which led to the destruction of the work of the Four-year Parliament, the second partition of Poland (1793, the first took place in 1772) and the difficult economic situation all failed to suppress Warsaw's drive towards freedom. The capital soon became the centre of clandestine activity aimed at overthrowing the foreign rule by force and restoring independence. The Kościuszko uprising and the victory at Racławice spurred the people of Warsaw to action. On 17 April 1794, led by Jan Kiliński, a local shoemaker and Józef Sierakowski, a butcher, they attacked and defeated the Russian troops stationed in the city. In May at the gallows erected in the Old Market Square the traitorous aristocratic members of the Targowica government were hanged. H... Read all>>