page_title: Austro-Hungarian Navy
section_title: Revolutions of 1848
hierarchical_section_title: Austro-Hungarian Navy / History / Revolutions of 1848
caption_attribution_description: English: Europe 1848-49. Historical map with main revolutionary centres, important reactionary troop movements, states with abdications and national conflicts. Please don't alter the map, when you think there something not written or depicted correctly. Leave a message at the talk page of the file. After a verificiation and a possible discussion, i will upload a new map version with all new changes. This prevents an unnecessary waste of disc space and ensures a good result, aesthetically and contentwise. - The author. Deutsch: Europa 1848/49. Historische Karte mit wichtigen revolutionären Orten, Hauptschlagrichtungen konterrevolutionärer Truppen, Staaten mit Abdankungen von Monarchen und Nationalitätenkonflikten. Bitte die Karte bei Änderungs- und Korrekturwünschen nicht selbst verändern, sondern eine Anmerkung im Diskussionsbereich der Bilddatei hinterlassen. Nach einer Prüfung und ggfs. Diskussion werden evtl. Änderungen von mir zusammengefasst eingearbeitet. Das vermeidet unnötige Speicherplatz-Verschwendung und gewährleistet ein ästhetisch ansprechendes und inhaltlich korrektes Ergebnis. - Der Urheber.
context_page_description: The Austro-Hungarian Navy or Imperial and Royal War Navy was the naval force of Austria-Hungary. Ships of the k.u.k. Kriegsmarine were designated SMS, for Seiner Majestät Schiff. Existing between 1867 and 1918, the k.u.k. Kriegsmarine came into being after the formation of Austria-Hungary in 1867, and ceased to exist upon the Empire's defeat and subsequent collapse at the end of World War I. Prior to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, the Navy was referred to as the Imperial Austrian Navy or simply the Austrian Navy. It saw action in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the Second Egyptian–Ottoman War, the First and Second Wars of Italian Independence, the Second Schleswig War, and the Seven Weeks War as well as the simultaneous Third War of Italian Independence. Following Austria's defeat by Prussia and Italy during the Seven Weeks War, the Empire reformed itself into a dual monarchy with the Habsburg monarch ruling as Emperor of Austria over the western and northern half of the country that was the Austrian Empire, and as King of Hungary over the Kingdom of Hungary.
context_section_description: After a successful revolution in France in February 1848 toppled King Louis Philippe I and established a Second French Republic, revolutionary fervor broke out across Europe. In Vienna, Austrian Chancellor Klemens von Metternich resigned his post and leave in exile to London while Emperor Ferdinand I was forced to abdicate the throne in favor of his nephew, Franz Joseph. Across the Austrian Empire, nationalist sentiments among Austria's various ethnic groups led to the revolutions in Austria to take several different forms. Liberal sentiments prevailed extensively among the German Austrians, which were further complicated by the simultaneous events in the German states. The Hungarians within the Empire largely sought to establish their own independent kingdom or republic, which resulted in a revolution in Hungary. Italians within the Austrian Empire likewise sought to unify with the other Italian-speaking states of the Italian Peninsula to form a "Kingdom of Italy".
  The revolution in Vienna sparked anti-Habsburg riots in Milan and Venice. Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky was unable to defeat the Venetian and Milanese insurgents in Lombardy-Venetia, and had to order his forces to evacuate western Italy, pulling his forces back to a chain of defensive fortresses between Milan and Venice known as the Quadrilatero. With Vienna itself in the middle of an uprising against the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire appeared on the brink of collapse. On 23 March 1848, just one day after Radetzky was forced to retreat from Milan, The Kingdom of Sardinia declared war on the Austrian Empire, sparking the First Italian War of Independence.
caption: Map of Europe in 1848–1849 depicting the main revolutionary centers, important counter-revolutionary troop movements and states with abdications
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