AH Challenge: Revolutionary Austria

In my time on the AH forums I have seen many people alter and move the French Revolution and its subsequent wars, from Thande's French Latin Republic to 037771 Classicist Republic of Spain. So far I have seen the Revolution transferred to France and Spain, and I'm sure I saw a Revolutionary Britain somewhere.

So, I challenge you to find some way that the great revolutionary power of Europe would become Austria and the Hapsburg domains. There are no real limits to the PoD so long as the outcome is a Revolutionary Austria developing around a similar time that OTL First French Republic. Apart from that, lets see how creative you can be.
 

Valdemar II

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The reason this is a incredible hard POD is that the Habsburg dynasty was the glue, which kept the Austria together, while France was a national-state. You need to make the German such a strong group in the Austrian possesion that they can keep in centralised, even without the Habsburgs. My suggestion for a POD is Austrian victory in the Seven Years War, with Prussia out of the picture, they can use their position to annex Bavaria in 1778, after that you need to Joseph continue the centralisation of the Empire and butterfly the French Revolution away (quite easily France hasn't wasted the money in the ARW, because the colonist has stayed loyal to Britain, with a French presence in NA). Around 1800 Austria is beginning to be centralised enough to survive without the Habsburgs, so we need a crisis, maybe the Kaisers attempt to increase his power in the HRE has cost enough to him raising the taxes, and accidental this happen when a famine hit; voila we have the right mix, for a revolution, a civil war and a general European War after French Revolutionary pattern.
 
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