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* The Austro-Hungarian polar expedition led by Weyprecht was selected as main motif for the Austrian Admiral Tegetthoff Ship and The Polar Expedition commemorative coin minted on June 8, 2005.
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* The Austro-Hungarian polar expedition led by Julius von Payer was selected as main motif for the Austrian Admiral Tegetthoff Ship and The Polar Expedition commemorative coin minted on 8 June 2005.
Besides, there are a book ( The Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition 1872-74 ) and paintings by Payer-probably the only paintings of a polar expedition created by the explorer himself.
Austro-Hungarian and expedition
In 1871 he participated in the preliminary Austro-Hungarian expedition to Novaya Zemlya, with Karl Weyprecht.
The Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition was an expedition that ran from 1872 – 74 and discovered Franz-Josef Land.
It also created a profound impression in Great Britain, where it was believed that the Bandiera brothers ’ correspondence with Mazzini had been tampered with, and that information as to the proposed expedition had been forwarded to the Austro-Hungarian and Bourbon governments by their own Foreign Office.
Austro-Hungarian ships and naval personnel were also involved in Arctic exploration, discovering Franz Josef Land during an expedition which lasted from 1872 to 1874.
Although Krivošije had been under Austro-Hungarian control as part of the Illyrian Provinces since the Congress of Vienna in 1814, in 1869 an uprising of the local Orthodox population defeated an expedition force of the powerful Austro-Hungarian army that was attempting to enforce compulsory military service.
Austro-Hungarian and led
The Kaiser took a mostly unilateral approach in Europe with as main ally the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and an arms race with Britain, which eventually led to the situation in which the assassination of the Austrian-Hungarian crown prince could spark off World War I.
The end of the war led to the dissolution of the defeated Austro-Hungarian Empire and the creation by the Allies of Czechoslovakia and the union of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the Kingdom of Serbia as new states.
Ultimately Arthur's continued stance in favor of native government led to a condition of unacceptability to the local regime within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
However, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Trieste's union to Italy after World War I led to some decline of its " Mittel-European " cultural and commercial importance.
From 1872-1874 he led the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition with Karl Weyprecht, who was Commander at sea, while Payer was Commander at shore.
At the same time, the July crisis between the Austro-Hungarian empire and Serbia broke out, which led to World War I.
Victorious in two wars and enjoying Russia's full support, Serbia now had the necessary self-confidence to resume her aspirations over Austro-Hungarian occupied Bosnia, to ignite the July crisis of 1914 and to keep the uncompromising position that led, through the existing European chains of alliances, to the outbreak of World War I.
The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy led to the renewal of national conflicts in the city.
Makhno fought all factions that sought to impose any external authority over southern Ukraine, battling in succession the Ukrainian Nationalists, the Imperial German and Austro-Hungarian occupation, the Hetmanate Republic, the White Army, the Red Army, and other smaller forces led by Ukrainian atamans.
In October 1915, Mackensen, in command of the newly formed Army Group Mackensen ( Heeresgruppe Mackensen, which included the German 11th army, Austro-Hungarian 3rd army, and Bulgarian 1st army ), led a renewed German-Austro-Hungarian-Bulgarian campaign against Serbia.
It led to the victory of Italy over the Austro-Hungarian Empire ( Austrian-Italian Armistice of Villa Giusti ) effective on 4 November 1918.
Finally, in the last 25 years of the 19th century partial liberalisation of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy led to creation of various Polish cultural and scientific societies.
However, it was the Austro-Hungarian occupation in 1878 that led to the renaissance of Bosnian painting.
His mistakes led to the disastrous first year of war that crippled Austro-Hungarian military capabilities.
In the late spring of 1918, the failure of the Austro-Hungarian offensives against the Italians, with costly and bloody assaults led by both Conrad and Boroević, brought condemnation upon the imperial leadership.
* September 15 – Two Austro-Hungarian Lohner flying boats, led by Fregatten-Leutnant Zelezny, sink the British submarine B-10 and the French submarine Foucault.
* August 9 – Eight Italian Ansaldo SVA biplanes of the 87 Squadriglia " Serenimissa ", led by Gabriele D ' Annunzio, fly over Vienna for 30 minutes without interference from Austro-Hungarian forces, taking photographs and dropping leaflets before returning to base without loss.
The unit, fighting alongside the Austro-Hungarian Army, fought mostly in various parts of Russian-held Poland, which led to popularisation of the new sport in other parts of Poland.
After the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he led the original party in Bohemia, called the Sudeten German National Socialist Party.
During the 1860s Kemény took an active part in the political movement led by statesman Ferenc Deák, whose right hand he continued to be, and popularized the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 that Deák helped bring about ; however, later he denounced it.
This meeting produced the so-called Buchlau bargain and led to the Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 1899 von Höhnel became Emperor Franz Joseph's aide-de-camp and later ( 1905 – 09 ) led an official Austro-Hungarian delegation to Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia.
It was in this capacity that Cavan led the Tenth Army which struck a decisive blow at the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, the action that sounded the final death knell of the Austro-Hungarian Army towards the close of the war.
Austro-Hungarian and by
Several of the dialects have been influenced by contact with non-Germanic linguistic groups, such as the dialect of Carinthia, where in the past many speakers were bilingual with Slovene, and the dialect of Vienna, which has been influenced by immigration during the Austro-Hungarian period, particularly from what is today the Czech Republic.
* 1910 – The SMS Zrinyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
Blissymbols were invented by Charles K. Bliss ( 1897 – 1985 ), born Karl Kasiel Blitz in the Austro-Hungarian city of Czernowitz ( at present the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi ), which had a mixture of different nationalities that “ hated each other, mainly because they spoke and thought in different languages .”
The group was denounced as nihilist by the Austro-Hungarian press and compared to the Russian People's Will and the Chinese Assassination Corps.
For the portions of Serbia ruled by Austria-Hungary until 1918, there were a total of five Austro-Hungarian censuses — 1910, 1900, 1890, 1880 and 1869, immediately after the Dual Monarchy's constitution.
The dog tag was similar to the tags used by the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I.
It failed and by October the armies were in retreat, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had collapsed, and the German people had lost faith in the political system.
On 6 October 1908, Bosnia-Herzegovina was declared a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire by Emperor Franz Joseph.
Zionism was formally established by the Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl in the late 19th century following the publication of " Der Judenstaat ".
* 1918 – The Austro-Hungarian battleship sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
On 21 December 1865 he was chosen vice-president of the diet, and in March 1866 became president of the sub-committee appointed by the parliamentary commission to draw up the Composition ( commonly known as the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ) between Austria and Hungary, of which the central idea, that of the " Delegations ," originated with him.
After successfully repelling Austro-Hungarian, White, and Ukrainian Nationalist forces, the Makhnovists militia forces and anarchist communist territories in the Ukraine were eventually crushed by Bolshevik military forces.
A fully automatic Steyr M1912, which was used as a side arm by the Austro-Hungarian Army
After a new steam engine had an accident ( cracked pipe weld ) his experiments were banned by the Austro-Hungarian police as dangerous.
h. c. F. Porsche GmbH in 1931 by Ferdinand Porsche, an Austrian engineer born in Maffersdorf, during the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Porsche's son-in-law Anton Piëch, an Austrian lawyer.
Nearly 375, 000 of the 500, 000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war taken by Russians perished in Siberia from smallpox and typhus.
The German Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russian Empire, and Ottoman Empire were then replaced by republics.
In October 1918, Romania joined the war again and by the end of the war, the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires had disintegrated ; governing bodies created by the Romanians of Transylvania, Bessarabia and Bukovina chose union with the Kingdom of Romania, resulting in Greater Romania.
It was one of the few great victories obtained by either side during the war ; 110, 000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners were marched back to Russia.
Many Slovene political activists, especially in Carniola and Styria, were imprisoned by Austro-Hungarian authorities on charges of pro-Serbian or pan-Slavic sympathies.
The first working prototype of the modern self-propelled torpedo was created by a commission placed by Giovanni Luppis (), an Austrian naval officer from Fiume ( now called Rijeka ), a port city of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy ( modern Croatia ), and Robert Whitehead, an English engineer who was the manager of a town factory.
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