After the revolutionary fervor left Paris in 1848 it traveled to Vienna, where a popular uprising ousted the reactionary government of Prince Klemens von Metternich on 13 March 1848.

The meeting, though with fewer than wished Catholic participation, formed a non-sectarian association called the Tatrín in order to unite all Slovak groups in one national bloc.

[6] In agriculture, Samuel Jurkovič founded a credit cooperative in the village of Sobotište, called the Farmer's Association, which was the first of its kind in Europe.

[7] In November 1847 Ľudovít Štúr, the member of the Hungarian Diet for Zólyom (now Zvolen), spoke before his colleagues in Pressburg (Pozsony, today's Bratislava).

This was met well and soon the word was spreading about possible new freedoms that would reach Slovaks, prompting some miners in the area comprising today's Central-Slovakia to demonstrate rowdily before being quieted by a special commissioner from Pest-Buda.

In April 1848 Štúr and Hurban attended a preliminary Slavic meeting in Vienna, which would later provide the basis for the first Pan-Slavic Congress to be held in Prague.

Naturally this document was received coldly by Pest-Buda, which subsequently imposed martial law on Upper Hungary and issued warrants for Štúr, Hurban and Hodža on 12 May 1848.

[11] When the full Pan-Slavic Congress met on 2 June 1848, Štúr, Hurban, Hodža and many other prominent Slovaks attended, along with hundreds of other Slavic delegates.

In order to lead this burgeoning revolt, a Slovak National Council was organized in Vienna, where a marker stands today commemorating the spot.

Not long after, the new commander of Imperial forces sent to restore order in the Kingdom of Hungary, Count von Lamberg, was hacked and mangled by an irate mob in central Budapest only three days after arrival.

[15] The Viennese response was to formally order the disbandment the Hungarian Diet and the appointment of Ban Josip Jelačić as newest commander over Hungary.

However, effective response to this latest development was also halted by another popular, pan-Germanic uprising in Vienna at the time which resulted in the death of war minister Count Latour on 6 October 1848.

Acting with Imperial support, Bloudek moved east and, picking up another few thousand volunteers,[17] occupied Eperjes (Prešov) on 26 February and Kassa (Košice) on 2 March.

After leading activist rallies in Eperjes and Túrócszentmárton, Štúr and Hurban led a delegation of twenty-four men to meet the new Emperor Franz Jozef with a proposal to make Slovakia an autonomous grand duchy directly under Viennese oversight with representation in the Imperial Diet.

On 9 October 1849, the Imperial army transferred the Slovak corps from the central territories of Upper Hungary to Pozsony, where it was formally disbanded on 21 November 1849.

This marked the end of Slovak participation in the Revolutions of 1848–1849 that swept the continent of Europe[20] Ferdinand V endorsed the reformist demands of the Hungarian diet and appointed a constitutional government led by Lajos Batthyány.

The conservative circles of the Vienna court feared the growing independence of the Hungarians, so they instructed the Ban of Croatia to attack Hungary.

The claim that the Slovak nation sided with Vienna is erroneous - they could hardly recruit around 2000 people from Upper Hungary (however their highest number is estimated cca.