Franz ruled from 1848 to 1916 as a member of the House of Habsburg. The Habsburg Dynasty's rule ended in November 1918 after ...

On November 30, 1916, with World War I still raging, the people of Vienna poured into the streets to pay their last respects to Franz Josef I, who had been their emperor for 68 years. His death ...

Photograph by Fine Art/Album Nicknamed Sisi ... was married to the Archduke of Austria, Franz Karl. In 1848 their unmarried son, Franz Josef, became Austrian emperor at age 18.

The man behind the salvation of Emperor and King Franz Joseph I, in 1853, Maximilian Karl Lamoral Graf O'Donnell Von Tyrconnell's paternal lineage traces back to County Mayo and further still to ...

Helmut Meyer zur Capellen/imageBROKER/Corbis A bust of Emperor Franz Joseph I. by Caspar Zumbusch at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Karl F. Schöfmann/imageBROKER/Corbis Art lovers won't want to ...