Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria; Credit – Wikipedia Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria, the eldest son of theHoly Roman Emperor Franz II(later Emperor Franz I of Austria) and his second wifeMaria Theresa of the Two Sicilies, who were double first cousins, was born on April 19, 1793, in Vie...
Austria-Hungary was a dual monarchy and Empire that controlled Austria, Hungary, and portions of East Europe that would later be part of different countries. It was ruled by a unitary monarch, and had a partially symbolic legislature that would become more prominent as the Empire collapsed as ...
King Ferdinand III of Sicily.In 1768, Ferdinand married Marie Caroline of Austria (or Maria Carolina,) sister of French Queen Marie Antoinette, who would lose her head in France in 1793. Consequently, Ferdinand and Marie Caroline did all they could to stop French revolutionaries....
The archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was killed at a place called Sarajevo.” Aartshertog Franz-Ferdinand van Oostenrijk is vermoord, in een stad die Sarajevo heet.’ Literature It was from Colonel Alexander Brosch von Aarenau, the former head of Franz Ferdinand's military chancellery. ...
Austria in favour of Arsenal's Sol Campbell.But it seems as if Eriksson's shock move has had the desired effect as Ferdinand delivered his best display for a long time against Argentina and it appears he is now coming back into form for United as well.Ferdinand (above) said: "It was ...
" However, Potiorek did accept it would be better ifDuchess Sophieremained behind in the City Hall. When Baron Morsey told Sophie about the revised plans, she refused to stay arguing: "As long as the Archduke shows himself in public today I will not leave him."...
There was also a general lack of proper rail transport units that were able to successfully carry the heavy weight of the Ferdinand’s larger components.The Nibelungenwerke factory was located in the city of Sankt Valentin (near Steyr, in Austria) and was founded shortly after the German ...
“Colonel Apis,” head of Serbian military intelligence. All of this was quite enough to provoke Austria-Hungary into declaring war on Serbia, after which, with the awful inevitability that A.J.P. Taylor famously described as “war by timetable,” Europe slid inexorably into the ...
26, 1861, Vienna, Austria—died Sept. 10, 1948, Coburg, Ger.) was a prince (1887–1908) and the first king (1908–18) of modern Bulgaria. The youngest son of Prince Augustus (August) I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Ferdinand was elected prince of Bulgaria on July 7, 1887, as successor ...
WithSerbiaalready muchaggrandizedby the twoBalkan Wars(1912–13, 1913), Serbian nationalists turned their attention back to the idea of “liberating” the South Slavs ofAustria-Hungary. ColonelDragutin Dimitrijević, head of Serbia’smilitary intelligence, was also, under the alias “Apis,” head...