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What would happen if Franz Josef of AH were assassinated during the 1848 revolution. This would not be a popular move, but there were fringe radicals that I could imagine would do something like that. What was his brother like politically? Would this have made a more moderate government more likely in the long run and what of Hungary?
Most likely the Hungarians would be crushed. His mother was still around and a bit of a hard-ass where the Hungarian nobility was concerned. But how would this event change things in the long run?