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  1. 5 days ago · Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (German: Franz Joseph Karl [fʁants ˈjoːzɛf ˈkaʁl]; Hungarian: Ferenc József Károly [ˈfɛrɛnt͡s ˈjoːʒɛf ˈkaːroj]; 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the ruler of the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his death in 1916.

  2. 2 days ago · The house takes its name from Habsburg Castle, a fortress built in the 1020s in present-day Switzerland by Radbot of Klettgau, who named his fortress Habsburg. His grandson Otto II was the first to take the fortress name as his own, adding "Count of Habsburg" to his title.

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › World_War_IIWorld War II - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two major alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. The vast majority of the world's countries, including all the great powers, fought as part of these military alliances. Many participating countries invested all available economic ...

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  5. 3 days ago · Before the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on 7 December 1941, the first ‘day of infamy’ for the Western world in the 20th century occurred with the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on Sunday, 28 June 1914.

  6. Apr 15, 2024 · sister Marie-Louise. Ferdinand (I) (born April 19, 1793, Vienna, Austria—died June 29, 1875, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary) was the emperor of Austria from 1835 to 1848, when he abdicated his throne. Ferdinand was the eldest son of the Holy Roman emperor Francis II (later Francis I of Austria) and Maria Theresa of Naples-Sicily.

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  7. Apr 19, 2024 · Archduke Franz Ferdinand's great-nephew Robert, born in 1915, was awarded the Austria-Este title on 16th April 1917 by his father, Karl I, the last Emperor of Austria. Through his mother, Empress Consort Zita (of Bourbon-Parma), Robert was a descendent of Ercole III, the last House of Este Duke of Modena and Reggio.

  8. 2 days ago · Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the Balkans during World War I. Book: Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the Balkans during World War I. Marvin Benjamin Fried. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, ISBN: 9781137359025; 320pp.; Price: £60.00. Reviewer: Professor Mesut Uyar. University of New South Wales, Canberra.

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