franz josef

OTL, the leading figures within Austria-Hungary decided rather early on to deal with Serbia once and for all, and declare war on them. Still, the Austro-Hungarians acted quite cautiously and tried to gain the guarantee of German support first. What if the Danubian Monarchy had a different kind...

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...

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...

*Crown Prince Rudolf My question is this: What if Rudolf did NOT commit suicide and lived to become the Emperor? I am aware that Emperor Franz Josef had only one son--Rudolf--who committed suicide because of an affair with Mary Vetsera. This obviously created a short-term succession crisis...