Franz Joseph I
Franz Joseph I.
Emperor of Austria · King of Hungary · King of Bohemia
1830 – 1916
Biography
Reigned for sixty-eight years, longer than any other Habsburg, and outlasted almost every monarch of his era. His reign began with reaction against the 1848 revolutions, weathered defeats by France in Italy and Prussia at Königgrätz, and settled in 1867 into the dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy. His personal life was marked by tragedy: his brother Maximilian executed in Mexico, his only son a suicide at Mayerling, his wife Elisabeth assassinated, his heir Franz Ferdinand murdered at Sarajevo. He signed the ultimatum to Serbia that began the war that would destroy his empire.
Events
- Succession
Fall of Austria-Hungary
1918· as long-reigning predecessor whose death freed the dynasty's last hopesThe collapse of the Habsburg monarchy at the end of the First World War. By October 1918 the constituent nationalities of Austria-Hungary were declaring independent states; on 11 November Emperor Karl I issued a proclamation renouncing participation in state affairs, though he never formally abdicated. The empire dissolved into the new Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and parts of Poland, Italy, and Romania — ending six centuries of Habsburg rule.
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