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Despite uprisings such as that of the Ciompi (wool-workers), the resilient Florentines were well-fed and highly literate compared to the rest of the country.
The grand square, wholly wiped out by the great earthquake of 1755, has seen its share of watershed political events: King Carlos and his son were felled by assassin’s bullets in the praça in 1908, and one of the first uprisings of the Carnation Revolution of 1974 was staged in this place.
In 1968, with uprisings sweeping the globe, student protests triggered a wave of demands for greater Kosovar autonomy.
The order played a great part in Cretan uprisings against the Turks — monks were hanged in 1821 — and more recently against the Germans in WWII when it was a rallying point for British soldiers and native partisans.
On 10 October 1868 Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, a criollo plantation owner who had already had a brief role in uprisings in Spain, issued a call for independence and liberated slaves from his estate, La Demajagua.