The revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire took place from March 1848 to November 1849. Much of the revolutionary activity had a nationalist character: the Austrian Empire, ruled from Vienna, incl
Barricades in Prague during the revolutionary events
Metternich in the 1840s
The Viennese students Academic Legion played a key role in toppling Metternich's government and precipitating his retirement on 13 March 1848.
Vienna in May 1848
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The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a multinational European great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs. During its exist
Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire
…revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire took place from March 1848 to November 1849. Much of the revolutionary activity had a nationalist character: the Austrian Empire, ruled from Vienna, included ethnic Germans, Hungarians, Poles, Bohemians (Czechs), Ruthenians (Ukrainians), Slovenes, Slovaks, Romanians, Croats…
Greatest extent of the Austrian Empire (1846–1859)
The Declaration of Victory After the Battle of Leipzig, by Johann Peter Krafft. Karl von Schwarzenberg and the monarchs of Austria, Prussia, and Russia after the Battle of Leipzig, 1813
Metternich alongside Wellington, Talleyrand, an other European diplomats at the Congress of Vienna, 1815
The crown jewels of Austria, with the 'hauskrone' of Rudolph II