2025500th Anniversary of the Miners Uprising 1525-1526 - Set

The Miners’ Uprising that took place from 1525 to 1526 was the greatest socio-political movement of miners in the area that is today Slovakia and the history of Hungary during the Feudal period. The uprising was mainly caused by changes to the pay stamp, the coin used to pay miners, harsh working conditions and increases in taxes and fees. After the suppression of the earlier revolt led by Juraj Dóža, the plebeian classes who were concentrated around the mining areas erupted in open warfare. Issues with wages were added to by problems with food supplies and sickness benefits. Factors, sales representatives, and the administrators of the largest mining company in Europe, the Thurzó-Fugger Company, based in Banská Bystrica, began to pay miners with devalued copper pay stamps in 1523. In early May 1525, the House of Thurzó and Fugger was attacked by the nobility in the diet, and in June their property was confiscated in the name of the monarch.