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... ir demands for reforms. On 18 April 1791 the long-awaited act granting citizen rights to burghers, unifying the city into one administrative entity, abolishing jurisdictions, dividing towns into districts (Warsaw was divided into seven districts) and giving wide powers to local authorities was adopted. On 21 April 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 over... Read all>>