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Part of Warsaw History article:

... (the first in Europe and second in the world) providing the foundations for the establishment of modern state. One of the most important issues dealt with by the Four-year Parliament was the matter of city rights. The town council of Old Warsaw, headed by Jan Dekert, who in the autumn of 1789 organised a congress of the representatives of Polish towns, played a particularly significant role here. On 2 December burghers formed the famous "black procession" and wearing black attire went in horse-driven coaches from the Old Town market Square to the Castle to deliver to the King and chancellors their 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... Read all>>