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unusual facts about First Mexican Empire


French intervention in Mexico

Conservatives, and many in the Mexican nobility, tried to revive the monarchical form of government (see: First Mexican Empire) when they helped to bring to Mexico an archduke from the Royal House of Austria, Maximilian Ferdinand, or Maximilian I, who was married to Charlotte of Belgium, who changed her name to Carlota when she and Maximillian were sent to Trieste.


Sabina de Iturbide y Huarte

Doña Sabina de Iturbide y Huarte, Princess of Mexico (born 1808 in Valladolid, Michoacán – died 1871) was a Mexican princess during the short-lived First Mexican Empire and a member of the Imperial House of Iturbide.

Second Federal Republic of Mexico

Like the Mexican Empire, the First Federal Republic and the Centralist Republic it was a chaotic period, marked by political instability that resulted in several internal conflicts which comprised the Reform War.


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