LEOPOLD TI

(1747-92); Holy Rom. emperor; Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1765; reformed administration; emperor, 1790; negotiated with England to check power of Ru ia and Pru ia, crowned king of Hungary, 1790, promising to observe constitution; made truce with Turks, 1790; concluded peace at Sistova, 1791; combined with king of Pru ia to declare readine for intervention in France during Revolution, 1791; formed alliance with Pru ia, 1792. Duke of Tuscany; succ., 1824; reformed administration; granted constitution, 1848; sent troops against Austria on outbreak of War of Ital. Independence; revolutionary agitations subsequently arose; republic proclaimed, Feb. 1849; L. went to Geeta; accepted invitation to return, April; made treaty with Austria, 1850; revoked constitution, 1852; abdicated, 1859.