Faeelin said:Something has been confusing me. Why is it that Hungary, which was up in arms in the reign of Emperor Joseph in the 1780's, was so quiet and supportive of the Habsburgs under Francis II? Why was there no effort on the part of Napoleon to set up an independent Hungarian state, crippling the Habsburgs? Was he concerned that there was no support for it (a laughable idea, I'd think, given his intervention in Spain).
The Emperor Joseph had most of the Hapsburg Empire up in Arms during his reign. He spent quite a lot of time trying to centralise the state by eroding the prevelidges of the local provinces, this lead to revolts in Hungary, the Austrian Netherlands etc.. Between the reigns of Francis and Joseph was Leopold, who reversed a number of Josephs reforms and restored a lot of calm to Emprie. Since Francis didn't rock the boat much, Hungary remained (relatively speaking) calm untill 1848.