Austria-Hungary was a dual monarchy in Central Europe created by the Compromise of 1867, which gave the Kingdom of Hungary equal standing with the Austrian lands within the Habsburg realm. Emperor Franz Joseph ruled as Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, while the two halves kept separate parliaments and governments and shared a monarch, a foreign policy, an army and a finance ministry. The empire was home to Germans, Hungarians, Czechs, Poles, Croats, Serbs, Romanians, Ukrainians and many other peoples, and national tensions troubled it for decades. It entered the First World War after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. Defeat and internal revolt in 1918 broke the state apart into successor countries such as Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
Before and after
- 1867Publication of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy
- 1867Dynamite
- 1867Joseph Lister introduces antiseptic surgery
- 14 January 1867Death of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
- from 1 March 1867 to 28 October 1918Austria–Hungary
- 30 March 1867Alaska Purchase
- 3 April 1867Discovery of Tempel 1
- 7 May 1867Birth of Władysław Reymont
- 4 June 1867Birth of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
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