Mexico and Austria/Hungary in the 19th century

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    Mexican Independence

  • Iturbide is crowned emperor

    Monarchy starts

  • Start of republic

    With President Vicente Guerrero
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    Austria-Hungary ruled by Francis Joseph I

    The Emperor from 1848 until 1916 was Francis Joseph I from the Hapsburg family, the traditional rulers of Austria.

  • Constitution of 1857

    modeled after the one of 1824, says a president can only serve one term

  • Emperor enters

    French install Maximilian as emperor

  • Dual monarchy is created

    The Dual Monarchy was created in the wake of a losing war in 1866 with Prussia and Italy
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    Austro-Hungary dual-monarchic union state in Central Europe

  • Empire's dualist structure

    Austro-Hungarian compromise of February 1867 inaugurated the Empire's dualist structure

  • Republic restored

    French withdraw from Mexico, Maximilian executed, Constitutional Republic restored

  • Austria occupies various provinces

    The Congress of Berlin in 1878 let this country occupy, but not annex the province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a predominantly Slavic area
  • Period: to

    Count Edouard von Taaffe is Prime Minister

    The influence of liberals in Austria, most of them ethnic Germans, weakened under the leadership of Count Edouard von Taaffe, the Austrian prime minister from 1879 to 1893.

  • Re-election restrictions removed

    Diaz wins pres again, has the constitution amended, first to allow two terms in office, and then to remove all restrictions on re-election