What is the uprising that began on 22 January 1863 and was the topic of Teodor Żychliński's works?
The January Uprising
January Uprising
The January Uprising (Polish: "powstanie styczniowe", Lithuanian: "1863 m. sukilimas", Belarusian: "Паўстанне 1863-1864 гадоў") was an uprising in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (present-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, parts of Ukraine, and western Russia) against the Russian Empire.
 It began on 22 January 1863 and lasted until the last insurgents were captured in 1864.
Teodor Żychliński
Teodor Żychliński (25 June 1830, Grzymisław – 26 August 1909, Poznań) was a Polish heraldic, diarist and journalist, editor of "Dziennik Poznański" (1864-1870) and "Kurier Poznański" (1872-1876), author of 31-volumed "Złota księga szlachty polskiej" (Golden Book of Polish Nobility) and memoirs from January Uprising.
François Rochebrune
François Rochebrune (Polish: "Franciszek Rochebrune") (born 1 June or 1 January 1830, died 19 November 1870 (some sources state 1871)) was a French soldier.
 He was born to an impoverished family.
 He served in the French Zouaves during the Crimean War.
 He then lived in Poland for two years as a tutor.
 He returned to the French Zouaves for five years, serving as a sergeant in China.
 He then returned to live in Poland once again in 1862.
 When the Polish rebellion against Russian rule began in January 1863, he formed and led a Polish rebel unit called the Zouaves of Death.
 Within months, he had been promoted to general.
 After the collapse of the uprising, he returned to France, where his exploits in Poland earned him the rank of captain in the French army.
 He was promoted to colonel for the Franco-Prussian War, and was killed by a sniper at the Battle of Montretout at the age of forty. Ludwik Żychliński
Ludwik Żychliński (born 1837 in Grand Duchy of Posen, d. after 1901 in Brusno, Lubaczów County) was a Polish patriotic activist, pułkownik, diarist.
 Żychliński participated in Giuseppe Garibaldi's expedition of Sicily (1860).
 During the American Civil War, he fought by the Union side (1862–1863).
 He was a pułkownik at the January Uprising of 1863–1864. Stefan Bobrowski
Stefan Bobrowski (17 January 1840 – 12 April 1863) was a Polish politician and activist for Polish independence.
 He participated in the January 1863 Uprising as one of the leaders of its "Red" faction and as a member of that faction's Central National Committee ("Komitet Centralny Narodowy"), and of the Provisional National Government ("Tymczasowy Rząd Narodowy"). Henry Herbert (cricketer)
Henry Moore Bungay Herbert (22 January 1863 – 30 November 1884) was an English first-class cricketer active 1883 who played for Middlesex.
 He was born in Southwark; died in St Pancras, London. Aleko Konstantinov
Aleko Konstantinov (Bulgarian: Алеко Константинов ) (1 January 1863 – 11 May 1897)(NS: 13 January 1863 – 23 May 1897) was a Bulgarian writer, best known for his character Bay Ganyo, one of the most popular characters in Bulgarian fiction. Ludwik Narbutt
Ludwik Narbutt (26 August 1832 - 5 May 1863) was a Polish noble and a notable military commander during the January Uprising.
 Son of Teodor Narbutt, he led a large unit of Polish insurgents in the region of the town of Lida, from the start of the uprising till his death in combat on 5 May 1863. Tiverton Preedy
Tiverton Preedy (22 January 1863 – 26 April 1928) was an English clergyman who worked in Yorkshire and London from 1887 until his death, where he was noted for his work with the poor.
 He was particularly interested in the use of sport within ministry, and founded a church football team in the town of Barnsley which became the modern Barnsley F.C. Bronisław Szwarce
Bronisław Antoni Szwarce (October 7, 1834 –February 18, 1904) was a Polish engineer and political activist.
 Born in France to Polish immigrants and educated there.
 He graduated from the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris in 1855.
 He returned to partitioned Poland and joined the radical democratic pro-independence underground.
 He became part of the Central National Committee but was arrested by the Russian authorities shortly before the January 1863 Uprising and exiled to Siberia.
(The CNC became a provisional Polish government and Szwarce, had he not been arrested, would likely have become one of the Uprising's leaders.)