Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. 4 days ago · Maximilian also introduced peacocks to the island, and their descendants still roam freely, adding a touch of regal charm to the lush landscape. Sadly, Maximilian‘s reign was short-lived, and he was executed in Mexico in 1867. His nephew, Archduke Rudolf, visited Lokrum in 1887, just two years before his tragic suicide at Mayerling.

  2. 1 day ago · Events leading to World War I. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand [a] was one of the key events that led to World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip.

  3. 5 days ago · Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, with its 60,000 residents is tense. Anger and conspiracy hang in the air. The aged Holy Roman Emperor Matthias was fading. As King of Bohemia, and Holy Roman Emperor, he continued the religious freedoms outlined by his older brother, and Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, in the Letter of Majesty ...

  4. 3 days ago · The heir to the house of Austria received the knighthood from his father, Archduke Karl, Grand Master. The history of the order goes back several centuries, created by Rudolph, Count of Habsburg who reigned as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1273-1291.

  5. 2 days ago · Ukraine. The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, [a] also known as Austrian Galicia or colloquially Austrian Poland, was a constituent possession of the Habsburg monarchy in the historical region of Galicia in Eastern Europe. The crownland was established in 1772. The lands were annexed from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as part of the First ...

  6. People also ask

  7. 3 days ago · Physical features of Austria. Austria is bordered to the north by the Czech Republic, to the northeast by Slovakia, to the east by Hungary, to the south by Slovenia, to the southwest by Italy, to the west by Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and to the northwest by Germany. It extends roughly 360 miles (580 km) from east to west.

  8. Rudolf II (18 July 1552 – 20 January 1612) was Holy Roman Emperor (1576–1612), King of Hungary and Croatia (as Rudolf I, 1572–1608), King of Bohemia (1575–1608/1611) and Archduke of Austria (1576–1608). He was a member of the House of Habsburg.

  1. Searches related to Archduke Rudolf of Austria

    archduke rudolf of austria composer