Fall of Metternich
1848 · Event
Vienna rises, students and workers fill the streets, and the 74-year-old architect of Europe's conservative order resigns after nearly forty years in power, fleeing to London hidden in a laundry cart by one account. With Metternich gone, revolution races through the Habsburg lands unchecked.
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