Empress Bianca Maria Sforza, daughter of the Duke of Milan, was born on 5 April 1472. The little girl was first married off by her relatives at the age of two and widowed at ten. The kings of Hungary and Scotland were later considered as her potential suitors before, in 1494, Maximilian — then King […]
Margaret of Austria, the daughter of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, was married to John, Prince of Asturias on 3 April 1497. She was seventeen years old, and it was her second marriage. Between the ages of three and twelve, she had nominally been the wife of Charles VIII of France, ten years her senior […]
The Emperor Ferdinand III died on 2 April 1657. He was the third but eldest surviving son of Ferdinand II and Maria Anna of Bavaria. As a sickly child, he grew up in a loving family circle and received a careful education in languages and sciences. From an early age, he was praised for his […]
Charles I of Austria, the last Emperor of Austria, passed away on 1 April 1922. He succeeded Franz Joseph I in November 1916, in the midst of the First World War. By that time, the survival of the Austrian Empire was already in doubt. The fatal moment came at the end of the war two […]
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