The Austrian Bishops' Conference was established in 1849 and agreed to a Concordat that would grant the Church greater scope in a variety of areas.
[1]: 123 The Church was also placed in charge of 98% of public primary schools: those that were nominally Catholic and controlled the curriculum.
The Austrian defeat in the war forced the Emperor Franz Josef to grant concessions to German liberals in Cisleithania.
[1]: 124 Following the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, the liberals, in the Josephinist tradition, largely influenced the Cisleithanian Constitution of 1867.
[3]: 13 Originally there were plans to extend the Concordat to Hungary, the largest part of Transleithania, but they never materialised.