1848:
January, outbreak of revolutionary events in the South of Italy. Revolution in Palermo.

Marx completes "Manifesto of Communist Party". At the end of January, the manuscript is sent to London for printing.

Engels arrives in Brussels, after being expelled from Paris for revolutionary activity among workers.

February 22-24, Revolution in France.

"Manifesto of Communist Party", the first program document of scientific communism, written by Marx and Engels, comes off the press in London.

March 5, expelled from Belgium, Marx and his family come to Paris. Engels writes a letter to the editor of "Northern Star" exposing the unlawful action of Belgian government towards Marx and his wife. The letter is published in the newspaper on March 25.

March, in Paris, German Workers' Club is set up to Marx' initiative. In its meeting, Marx speaks against the adventurism plans of "exporting revolution" offered by petty-bourgeois refugees in Paris.

March 11, Marx is elected Chairman of Central Authority of Communist League. Engels, still in Brussels, is appointed member of Central Authority in his absence.

March 13, revolutionary events erupt in Vienna.

March 18-19, Outbreak of revolution in Germany. Barricade fighting in Berlin.

March 21, Engels comes to Paris (from Brussels), where he at once plunges into the work of Central Authority of the Communist League.

March 21-29, Marx and Engels write the "Demands of Communist Party in Germany", political platform of Communist League in German bourgeois-democratic revolution. It is published in the form of leaflets and is distributed together with "Manifesto of Communist Party" to workers returning to Germany.

April, Marx, Engels and a group of their comrades-in-arms go to Germany to take direct part in revolution.

April 11, Marx and Engels come to Cologne, where they lay the ground for publishing a political daily newspaper.

May 31, the first issue of "Neue Rheinische Zeitung", dated June 1, appears; Marx is the paper's editor-in-chief and Engels is his closest assistant.

May-June, "Neue Rheinische Zeitung" publishes Engels' articles about revolutionary events in Europe.

June 23-26, an uprising of Paris proletariat. "Neue Rheinische Zeitung" regularly prints articles on the course of uprising, most of those by Frederick Engels.

September 13, In view of political crisis in Germany, "Neue Rheinische Zeitung" sponsors a mass meeting in Colognr to organize a rebuff of the counter-revolution. The meeting elects a Committee of Public Safety, which includes Marx, Engels and other editors of "Neue Rheinische Zeitung". It is to be the organizing center of the revolutionary struggle.

September 26, "Neue Rheinische Zeitung" is suspended following the defeat of Frankfurt uprising and the introduction of a state of siege in Cologne.

Engels leaves for Brussels, from where he goes to Switzerland via France. From Switzerland, Engels writes articles for "Neue Rheinische Zeitung".

October 6-31, an uprising in Vienna ending in victory for the counter-revolution.

October 12, "Neue Rheinische Zeitung" resumes publication.

Karl Marx