[1] On 10 May 1848, thirty members of Štúr's circle of nationalist activists met in Liptószentmiklós (now Liptovský Mikuláš), at the initiative of Štefan Marko Daxner and Ján Francisci.
Some of their demands, such as their call for universal manhood suffrage, were unusually radical for their era and location.
[1] The demands were the first public call to make the area then known as Upper Hungary (most of which is now modern Slovakia) a distinct political entity.
The assembly at which they were issued was ill-attended and before they could be delivered to Ferdinand I, the King of Hungary and Emperor of Austria, the Hungarian government declared that the demands were an illegal, unconstitutional and pan-Slavic act.
[3] Štúr, Hurban and Hodža subsequently adopted a more radical approach; a few months later they established the Slovak National Council and launched an armed rebellion against the Hungarian government.