ausgleich

Many people people blame the collapse of Austria-Hungary in it's own political structure which derives from the Ausgleich (A-H Compromise) of 1867, the union clearly had various issues and the Empire never really managed to reform after it, due to neither the Austrian nor Hungarian sides wanting...

What if at some point no later than the congress of Vienna (tough probably better much earlier), the Habsburg get the bavarian crown and made Bavaria part of their empire? Like Hungary it would be an integral part of the empire but its own crown, tough in the ausgleich it would be a...

After the settlement of the Schleswig Holstein Question, in the Austro Prussian War, the Austrian Empire, having suffered two major military defeats in less than a decade, had to reform itself. Hungarian nobles were pushing though the idea of an “Ausgleich”, which is what actually happened. Some...

Lets assume that 1866 is even more devastating for Austria than IOTL. Austrian Silesia and the predominantly German parts of Bohemia (basically the Sudetenland) are annexed by Prussia. What could be a way to dissolve this weakened Austrian Empire until January 1st 1900? And what would be the...

Say that Habsburgs managed to make agreement with their Hungarian subjects and Hungarian problem is solved without Russian involvement (popably with Dual Monarchy created autonomy for Galizia is also given earlier). Would Austria join Crimean War against Russia in such case? For Austria Russian...

This has been at the back of my head for a while now. How early can the Ausgleich happen? I've seen ideas that it could potentially have happened in 1848, if the Hungarians successfully take Vienna or the revolutions are more widespread in Austria. But what if we go a bit more back? Maybe...

So what if the forces of Jellacic suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of Pákozd and Jellacic himself was captured as well? How could this affect the situation between Austria and Hungary? Could this lead to the preservation of the successes of the revolution or a conflict with Austria is...