franz joseph

In 1867, Franz Joseph proposed the establishment to become Austria-Hungary in order to put an end to the military dictatorship in the Austrian Empire after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 which lasted from 1867 to 1918, but what if Franz never proposed the deal? What would be the fate of...

Franz Joseph once called Leopold II of Belgium a “thoroughly bad man”.But suppose that he was the one in charge of the Congo Free state(or whatever it is if it is an Austrian colony instead of his private possession), how much of an improvement would it have been? What would have driven Franz...

Context, a young Franz Joseph I fell in love with Princess Anne of Prussia, and wanted to propose to her, but she was already engaged, and Prussian statesmen didn’t like the possibility of a Prussia-Austrian alliance. Anne would have an unhappy married life, while Franz Joseph married Sisi...

In 1882 the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I survived two assassination attempts by the Italian irredentists Guglielmo Oberdan and Donato Ragosa while visiting Trieste. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Oberdan What would have happened had they succeeded? Would that have meant war...