Austria's young emperor faces three pressing tasks:…
1840 CE to 1851 CE
To accomplish the first, the government promulgates a secretly prepared constitution in March 1849. thus undercutting the constituent assembly.
This constitution contains guarantees of individual liberties and equality under the law, but its greatest significance lies in provisions that establish a centralized government based on unitary political, legal, and economic institutions for the entire empire.
The new constitution exacerbates the revolutionary situation in Hungary.
The Hungarian diet deposes the Habsburg Dynasty and declares Hungarian independence.
Although Austria could have eventually restored order on its own, the need to deal simultaneously with events in Germany prompts Emperor Franz Joseph to ask for and get Russian military assistance, thus accomplishing his second objective
The rebellion is effectively, if brutally, ended by September 1849.
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