Emperor Franz Joseph dies at the age of 86 because ... He reigned for 68 years before he died in 1916 when both Hungary and Austria were independent states of equal status. Season 2 of The Empress ...
A fateful encounter – the proverbial love at first sight. He is Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary, she is Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, Princess of Bavaria and the sister of the woman Franz ...
A portrait of Franz Joseph I of Austria, monarch of Austria-Hungary, 1905. In 1867, Austria and the Kingdom of Hungary signed a treaty that created a formal union between the two states.
Video by Celine Jankowiak A long-lost carriage once used almost daily by Austria's longest-serving monarch Franz Joseph for his commute from the Schoenbrunn palace to his office in central Vienna ...
He fired two bullets, killing both Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie. Austria-Hungary’s emperor, Franz Joseph, was furious at the assassination of his nephew and heir to the throne.