15 Minute History

Episode 142: World War I and the Hapsburg Empire


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The Hapsburg Empire was founded in 1282 (or 1526, depending on who you ask) and lasted until 1918. Despite its increasingly antiquated and illiberal tendencies, it survived the reformation, the thirty years war, the enlightenment, the age of Revolution, the revolutions of 1848,  and the Austro-Prussian war of 1866 — but not World War I. […]
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15 Minute HistoryBy The University of Texas at Austin