![]() A believer in greater autonomy for the various ethnic groups of Austria-Hungary, especially the Slavic ones, he nevertheless considered Hungarians as too much of a threat for the Habsburg dynasty and announced his plans to reform the Empire, dismissing numerous hardliners, such as Minister-President of Austria Karl von Stürgkh or Chief of the General Staff Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf. ![]() He married morganatically Sophie Chotek in 1900, after he renounced his descendants’ rights to the throne after his courtship caused conflict within the Imperial Household.įerdinand succeeded his uncle to the thrones of the realm in November 1916. The eldest son of Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, the younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, he became the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne following the suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf in 1889 and the death of Karl Ludwig in 1896. I must acknowledge the many readers of A Giant Sucking Sound one could find a few similitaries with the Kaiserreich TL, on which I once participated in my younger years for Mexico and France.įerdinand II (Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph von Habsburg-Lothringen) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia (as Ferdinand VI) and the firs t Head of the Danubian Federation. Without further ado, let's begin for once this completed TL, in collaboration with you ! The TL had a few missteps, yet I pursued the redaction of a complete timeline, country by country, year by year, from 1914 to 2020 : in the end, it seemed that it would be impossible to make a linear TL as I had first imagined, and the great TL Our Fair Country and the success of the edited Wikibox persuaded me to launch a new format, as a history atlas illustrated by Wikibox, showing the whole perspective of the world from 1914 to 2020 and leaving the reader to find the marks of the world. The endeavour for this TL started back in 2013, when after the abandonment of my Ross Perot TL, I searched for the ideas of my fellow members of in redacting a new timeline - Having Archduke Franz Ferdinand survive his fateful trip to Sarajevo on June, 28 1914 seemed perfect, as this event had numerous consequences for the whole century.
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