During his long reign, some of the methods that Franz Josef used to maintain his Habsburg empire were:
1. He crushed a revolt by his Hungarian subjects and executed their leaders.
2. He split his empire into Austrian and Hungarian parts, and set up a parliament in Budapest.
<h3>What did Franz Josef do?</h3>
Franz Josef was a Habsburg emperor who was responsible for enlarging it and making it a very large empire. To do this, he needed to be ruthless sometimes.
One such time was when he crushed a revolt by the Hungarians and then killed their leaders as punishment. He then split the empire into the Austrian and Hungarian parts leading the empire being called the Austria - Hungary empire.
