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unusual facts about Emperor Maximilian


Emperor Maximilian

Maximilian I of Mexico, Austrian-born royal, Emperor of Mexico (1861–1867)


1887 Sonora earthquake

The townspeople named him El Doctor Santo (The Sainted Doctor), and in recognition of his humanitarian contributions, Mexican President Porfirio Diaz presented him with a silver medal that had belonged to Emperor Maximilian and a horse named El Rosillo.

Le Fanion de la Légion

Though the song is set in the Sahara, Asso was likely influenced by the Battle of Camarón (1867), during the failed French attempt to prop up the regime of the Emperor Maximilian in Mexico - a major founding myth familiar to anyone who served in the Legion.

Victorio Peak

Theories abound on the origins of the alleged treasure, from eighteenth-century Spanish Missionaries to wealth pilfered from Mexico during the reign of the French puppet Emperor Maximilian.


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Battle of Jenkins' Ferry

France had invaded and occupied Mexico in June 1863, setting up a government under their puppet "emperor," Maximilian.

Flashman on the March

Having fled Mexico aboard the Austrian warship carrying the Emperor Maximilian's body home for burial, Flashman is on the run, after mortally offending Admiral Tegethoff by seducing his great-niece en voyage.

France–Mexico relations

In 1867, Emperor Maximilian I was captured and executed in Querétaro thus ending the Second Mexican Empire.

George, Duke of Bavaria

The most southern districts of Bavaria-Landshut Kufstein, Kitzbühel and Rattenberg passed to Emperor Maximilian and were united with Tyrol.

Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I

In the Spring of 1512, the newly elected emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg sojourned in Nuremberg, where he got acquainted with Dürer.

Reichspfennig

Common Penny, or Reichspfennig, an imperial tax agreed at the Diet of Worms in 1495 under Emperor Maximilian I

Treaty of Blois

Treaty of Blois (1509) (3rd Treaty of Blois), of December 12, 1509, an alliance between Ferdinand II of Aragon (and now regent of Castile), Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and King Louis XII of France in the War of the League of Cambrai in northern Italy.