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Mar 14, 1989 · March 14, 1989 12 AM PT. From Times Wire Services. ZIZERS, Switzerland — Zita, the last empress of the vast Hapsburg Empire whose role in a plan to end World War I led to exile from her Austrian...
Mar 15, 1989 · By From News Services. March 15, 1989 at 12:00 a.m. EST. ZIZERS, SWITZERLAND -- Zita, 96, the last empress of the vast Hapsburg empire of Austria-Hungary whose role in a plan to end World War I...
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Apr 2, 1989 · She died in Switzerland on March 14 at the age of 96. Some of the older spectators said they came to pay their respects to a woman they still remembered as their monarch.
Charles II was the last Spanish ruler from the House of Habsburg. He is regarded as a grotesque reflection of Spain’s decline and a prototypical product of dynastic inbreeding. The precarious situation of the Spanish Habsburgs, who were on the verge of extinction due to the lack of male heirs, manifested itself in rumours that the son marked ...
Emperor of Mexico (House of Habsburg-Lorraine) Coat of arms of the Mexican Empire adopted by Maximilian I in 1864. Maximilian, the adventurous second son of Archduke Franz Karl, was invited as part of Napoleon III 's manipulations to take the throne of Mexico, becoming Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico.
The French held the advantage in the early stages, but were forced onto the defensive after 1706. Although the Allies continued to advance in northern France, by 1709 Philip had cemented his position in Spain, the ostensible cause of the war. When Emperor Joseph I died in 1711, Archduke Charles succeeded his brother as Holy Roman Emperor.
The Last days of the Habsburg Monarchy. In November 1918, writes Norman Stone, a whole political and social order in central Europe came to an end. On Sunday, November 10th, 1918, a Habsburg Emperor attended mass in the Imperial Chapel of Sch ö nbrunn for the last time. The young Emperor Charles, nephew of the murdered Archduke Francis ...
