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Francis II and I ( German: Franz II.; 12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor as Francis II from 1792 to 1806, and the first Emperor of Austria as Francis I from 1804 to 1835. He was also King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, and served as the first president of the German Confederation following its establishment in ...
- 5 July 1792 – 6 August 1806
- Maria Luisa of Spain
Francis II (born February 12, 1768, Florence—died March 2, 1835, Vienna) was the last Holy Roman emperor (1792–1806) and, as Francis I, emperor of Austria (1804–35); he was also, as Francis, king of Hungary (1792–1830) and king of Bohemia (1792–1836).
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May 23, 2018 · FRANCIS II (HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE) (1768 – 1835; ruled 1792 – 1806). As Holy Roman emperor (1792 – 1806), emperor of Austria (1804 – 1835), and king of Hungary and king of Bohemia (1792 – 1835), Francis has a bad press among historians. He is mostly associated with the Metternichian system after the fall of Napoleon in 1815, when Klemens ...
Francis II (German: Franz II., Erwählter Römischer Kaiser) (12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835) was the Holy Roman Emperor who ruled from 1792 until 6 August 1806, when he dissolved the Holy Roman Empire after the disastrous defeat of the Third Coalition by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz. In 1804, he had founded the Austrian Empire and ...
Mar 30, 2023 · At the Battle of Tourcoing, the Allies were nominally commanded by the Holy Roman Emperor, Francis II, himself, though their plan was devised by Karl Mack von Leiberich. The French were commanded by General Joseph Souham, even though General Jean-Charles Pichegru later took credit for the victory.
England and Materialist Philosophy. Transcribed: by Ted Crawford. In 1844, Marx wrote “The Holy Family,” a collection of essays directed against his friend Dr. Bruno Bauer, a university lecturer and Liberal theologian (one of the pioneers of higher criticism); the latter edited the Krilische Literaturzeitung, in which he gave a superficial ...
Apr 22, 2024 · Francis II: Holy Roman Emperor. The wars continued, with the Empire joining the War of the Third Coalition in 1805. The year before, Francis had declared himself Emperor of Austria, in what he saw as a parallel move to Bonaparte's declaring himself Emperor of the French. This war was very much a war pitting France against the Empire.
