<P> Greece in the early part of the 1800s was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire . A series of revolts, starting in 1821, began the conflict . The Ottoman Empire sent in forces to suppress the revolts . By 1827, forces from Russia, Great Britain, and France entered the conflict, helping the Greeks drive the Turkish forces off the Peloponnese Peninsula . The Turks finally recognized Greece as a free nation in May 1832 . </P> <P> The European Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of Nations, Springtime of the Peoples or the Year of Revolution, were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe in 1848 . It remains the most widespread revolutionary wave in European history, but within a year, reactionary forces had regained control, and the revolutions collapsed . </P>

What came first the american revolution or the french revolution