-growing debt crisis from War of the French Revolution (1792-1804) and Second French War (1821-32)

-which causes him to have to convene Diet and it ends up with them being very upset when he tells them to fuck off

-being mentally ill, under influence of reactionary wife refuses to call Hungary's diet

-but engages in various unconstitutional acts when forcing it to pay money

-with French Wars > Third French War (1847-54) now needs increasing levels of money

-in 1849 forced to convene diet by pure circumstance

-when royal representative orders diet to give him taxes, they refuse him and knock him out

-when rumors arrive that he's coming back with troops Hungarian Diet declares independence

-leads war effort in French Wars > Third French War (1847-54)

-succeeds due to Austrian government having weak army and distracted

-retires after a nervous break

-a considerably more moderate voice than Széchenyi

-suppresses radical revolt in Pest with extreme brutality

-with end of war some talk of establishing a republic

-but aristocracy of Hungary really hates this idea

-and Dessewffy views republicanism as an evil ideology

-instead establishes a monarchy for an independent state

-and despite talk of electing a noble this is refused because too many divisions for an insider

-this guy

-family having been ousted from his kingdom in Germany in Second French War (1821-32) and redeemed with Hildesheim

-faced with a growing surge of Magyarization

-and he accepts this wholly

-also opposes movement for an increase of the electorate

-and suppresses republican revolts and conspiracies

-industrial growth sees emergence of middle-class who are entirely dispossessed from power

-autocratic and aristocratic administration turns Hungary from an inspiring success story into something grimmer

-in French Wars > Fourth French War (1880-4) signs treaty with Germany making Hungary neutral

-really pisses the shit out of radicals

-assassinated along with Heads of Germany > 1869-1892 Karl VIII (Habsburg) because considered too close in his alliance

-republicans declare throne of Hungary vacant and declare a republic against the rotten aristocrats