Free City of Kraków
In the autonomous Polish-Lithuanian Free City of Kraków, patriotic Polish intellectuals and nobles ("szlachta") had made plans for a general uprising in partitioned Poland, intending to reestablish an independent Poland-Lithuania. A similar uprising of nobility was planned in Poznań, but police quickly caught the ringleaders. The Kraków Uprising began on the night of 20 February, and initially met with limited successes.