When Emperor Ferdinand abdicated as part of the plan to end the Revolutions of 1848 in Hungary, his nephew, Franz Joseph I (1830-1916) assumed the throne and went on to serve as emperor of Austria ...

Franz Joseph I (18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the other states of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 2 December 1848 until his death. From 1 May ...

Franz Josef was the emperor of Austria and Hungary, and he decreed Budapest and Vienna equal (in order to appease Hungarians). He used royal funds to build the opera house in Budapest, and ...

In his heyday the Emperor Franz Josef liked to do things on schedule. At 4:30 in the morning three times a week, he arose, put on a well-cut uniform and yards of braid, walked across the gardens ...

Franz Ferdinand's motivations were not especially noble. He had a poor relationship with his uncle, Emperor Franz Josef, who deeply resented Franz Ferdinand's marriage to Sophie, who was a member ...

In 1857 Austrian Emperor Franz Josef ordered the city walls surrounding Vienna torn down, an unprecedented move for a European capital. After eight years of construction, a grand boulevard ...

It’s furnished as it was in the 19th century during the reign of Maria Theresa’s great-great-grandson, Emperor Franz Josef. He ruled for 68 years—nearly to the end of the empire.