The Galician Slaughter, also known as the Peasant Uprising of 1846 or the Szela uprising (; or Rabacja galicyjska), was a two-month uprising of Galicianpeasants that led to the suppression of the szlachta uprising (Kraków Uprising) and the massacre of szlachta in Galicia in the Austrian partition in early 1846. The uprising, which lasted from February to March, primarily affected the lands around the town of Tarnów.