Austrian Empire (Osterreich)

The Austrian Empire was a great power and empire that existed from 1804, when it was proclaimed in rivalry to the French Empire, to 1916, when Emperor Franz Ferdinand instituted several reforms and renamed the country the Habsburg Empire under his Pan-European Ideals. The Empire weathered the revolutions of 1848, the Fraternal War, and World War I. After emerging from the war, the Austrian State was in near shambles and was repaired by series of massive reforms instituted by its last emperor, Franz Ferdinand, who became Ferdinand I and II after becoming Emperor of the Habsburg Federation.