1848 vs. 2011; 1848 vs. 2011. 2 minute read. Kurt Andersen. March 10, ... The wave hit Vienna, the capital of the Habsburg Empire, forcing the great power broker Metternich to resign.

The book’s chapters offer a brief overview of the Habsburg dynasty, following the family’s rise from minor Swiss nobles to possessors of an empire that spanned much of Europe and the Americas.

If the EU learnt the lessons of the Habsburg empire then Brexit might not have happened, says descendant. Exclusive: Hungary’s ambassador to the Vatican Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen spoke to The ...

On this episode of American Prestige, Natasha Wheatley on the transformation of the Habsburg Empire from a multinational collection of polities to discrete nation-states.

Sylvein William Maximilian D’Habsburg XVII, of West Hills, agreed to plead guilty to running a $5.9-million Ponzi scheme that targeted churchgoing seniors.

All about the House of Habsburg. Search. About Women's Health; ... Franz reigned from 1848–1916 as a member of the ... They also governed Spain and the Spanish empire for almost two ...

It was 1918, at the end of a World War that transformed European nations and ended the old Habsburg Empire that had ruled most of Central Europe.

The dueling demonstrations, which coincided with a national holiday commemorating Hungary’s 1848 revolution against the ...

By 1600 the Holy Roman Empire was firmly in the grip of the Habsburgs, ruling from the Hofburg palace within Vienna's city walls. The empire had the largest population in Europe; it was bigger ...

In 1848, revolution spread ... were granted in Prussia and the major German states, and the Italian and Hungarian subjects of the multi-ethnic Habsburg empire appeared on the brink of independence.