This mainly took the form of celebrations and commemorations, such as the 150th birthdays of 19th century leaders of the Slovak National Revival Ľudovít Štúr and Jozef Miloslav Hurban, the centenary of the Matica slovenská in 1963, and the twentieth anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising.
The leader of Slovak national revival, Ľudovít Štúr, publicly revealed a document called "The demands of Slovak nation" in 1848 in Liptovský Mikuláš as an official appeal to the leaders of Austrian-Hungarian empire to help solve the present existentional problems of Slovak people (unsuccessful).
But on 12 May 1848, the Hungarian government issued a warrant on the leaders of the Slovak movement: Štúr, Hurban and Hodža.
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In 1846, Štúr got to know the yeoman Ostrolúcky family in Zemianske Podhradie (Nemesváralja), who later helped him to become a deputy in the Hungarian Diet in Pressburg.
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From 11–16 July 1843, at the parish house of J. M. Hurban in Hlboké, the leaders of the Slovak national movement – Štúr, J. M. Hurban and M.M. Hodža – agreed on how to codify the new Slovak language standard and how to introduce it to the public.
The tree represented a symbol to so called Ľudovít Štúr - movements - the linden is considered to be a symbol of Slavs.
Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician in the 19th century, leader of the Slovak national revival
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Janko Kráľ (24 April 1822 in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš (now Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia) - 23 May 1876 in Zlaté Moravce was one of the most significant and most radical Slovak romantic poets of the Ľudovít Štúr generation and a national activist.