Franz Joseph I of Austria
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Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (1830 – 1916) was Austrian Emperor, King of Hungary, and the other states of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 2 December 1848 until his death.
A member of the House of Habsburg which had a ruled a vast number lands in Central Europe, Franz Joseph succeeded his uncle Ferdinand as Emperor in 1848, inheriting the throne at the time when Europe was plagued by a number of revolutions including various within the Austrian Empire.[1]
In 1853 in Vienna, Franz Joseph became the subject of an assassination attempt by Hungarian tailor János Libényi,[2] which was thwarted with the intervention of his aide Maximilian Karl Lamoral O'Donnell and the Viennese butcher Joseph Ettenreich.[3]
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Franz Joseph I of Austria on Wikipedia
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 7
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 8

