May Uprising in Dresden May Uprising in Dresden The May Uprising took place in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony in 1849; it was one of the last of the series of events known as the Revolutions of 1848. In the German states, revolutions began in March 1848, starting in Berlin and spreading across the other states which now make up Germany. The heart of the revolutions was in Frankfurt, where the newly formed National Assembly, the Frankfurt Parliament, met in St Paul's Church from May 1848, calling for a constitutional monarchy to rule a new, united German nation. To form the Assembly, near-democratic elections had
English Dresden Sita Devi, the Gaekwad's Maharani was photographed wearing it at her husband's birthday party. The diamond is of course named after its first owner, but it was probably styled the "English Dresden" to distinguish it from a number of other famous diamonds with the same name: the Dresden Green, the Dresden White and the Dresden Yellow, which were actually kept in the German city of Dresden. It is also known as the "Dresden Drop" or the "Star of Dresden". English Dresden The English Dresden is a famous diamond found at the Bagagem mines in Minas Gerais in Brazil, in 1857