If The Empress has a season 3, it could explore Franz Joseph's military command more deeply, as well as how that impacted his reign when he returned to Vienna. It is certainly a complicated and ...

Franz Joseph I ruled for 68 years before he died in 1916, per City of Vienna. Franz was crowned King of Hungary in 1867. After Austria was defeated by Italy in 1859 and Prussia in 1866, ...

Franz Joseph died in the middle of the war in 1916. From 1914-18, the empire mobilized almost 8 million men, according to Pieter M. Judson author of The Habsburg Empire: A New History .

Built in 1876, the neo-baroque hearse was used for five funerals, including Empress Elisabeth, Emperor Franz Joseph and Austria's last empress Zita.