Austria abolishes the 1849 constitution and restores absolutist monarchy
Austrian emperor Franz Joseph I, twenty-one years old, abolishes the 1849 constitution, restoring absolutist monarchy in the Hapsburg empire. (By Brian Bockelman)
Source Citation
Neville Williams, ed., Chronology of World History, vol. 3 (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 1999), 260.