July–August 1831 The cholera revoltCholerové povstanie

In the summer of 1831 cholera reached Zemplín. The authorities disinfected the wells with chlorinated lime and handed out bismuth powder; the serfs, who could not read the notices and had just survived the failed harvest of 1830, concluded that the lords were poisoning them to get their land. More than 150 villages across Zemplín, Abov, Šariš and Spiš rose — over forty thousand people — and landowners, stewards and officials were killed. The army put it down within weeks: military courts had executed 119 people by 8 November 1831, when the ruler stopped the reprisals, and about four thousand more were flogged or imprisoned. It was the largest peasant rising in Slovak history, and it happened on the fields around this town.V lete 1831 dorazila do Zemplína cholera. Úrady dezinfikovali studne chlórovým vápnom a rozdávali bizmutový prášok; poddaní, ktorí vyhlášky nevedeli prečítať a mali za sebou neúrodný rok 1830, si to vysvetlili tak, že ich páni travičstvom pripravujú o pôdu. Povstalo vyše 150 dedín Zemplína, Abova, Šariša a Spiša — vyše štyridsaťtisíc ľudí — a zabíjali sa zemepáni, správcovia a úradníci. Vojsko povstanie potlačilo za pár týždňov: do 8. novembra 1831, keď panovník zastavil represie, popravili stanné súdy 119 ľudí a približne štyri tisícky ďalších odsúdili na palice alebo väzenie. Bolo to najväčšie roľnícke povstanie v slovenských dejinách a odohralo sa na poliach okolo tohto mesta.