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11 unusual facts about Maximilian I of Mexico


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.

Carl Gangolf Kayser

Carl Gangolf Kayser (or Carl Gangolph Kaiser; born 12 February 1837, in Vienna; died 2 September 1895), was an Austrian architect at the service of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, during the Second Mexican Empire.

After several trips, he was appointed court architect by Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico in 1864.

Eduard Franz

In 1961, Franz and Scott Marlowe guest starred in the episode "The Duke of Texas" of CBS's western series Have Gun - Will Travel, with Richard Boone, as two Austrians involved in intrigue in the days of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico.

Egyptian Museum

In 1855, shortly after the artifacts were moved, Archduke Maximilian of Austria was given all of the artifacts.

Emperor Maximilian

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

Frantz Jehin-Prume

In 1864 Jehin-Prume came to Mexico at the invitation of Emperor Maximilian I.

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.

Lewis D. Campbell

The occupying French forces of Maximilian had Juarez's government on the run, and Campbell failed to reach them.

Ulysses S. Grant as peacetime general, 1865–1869

Grant, as commanding general, immediately had to contend with Maximilian of Mexico and the French army which had taken over Mexico under the authority of Napoleon III.

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.


Agnes Salm-Salm

Agnes Salm-Salm (December 25, 1844 – December 21, 1912) was the American wife of Prince Felix zu Salm-Salm, a Prussian mercenary beside whom she played a role in the American Civil War, the Mexican Civil War between President Benito Juárez and the Austrian archduke Maximilian I of Mexico, and the Franco-Prussian War.

Austrian colonization of Nicobar Islands

Motivated by an urge to explore, Arch-Duke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria in 1857 sent the frigate "Novara" on a trip of scientific discovery around the world.

Daniel Donovan

In the navy he saw much of the world, particularly the Americas (he was, for example, in the city of New Orleans when the American Civil War came to an end, and he was in Mexico during the revolution of 1867 when the Emperor Maximillian was dethroned and executed).

Erzherzog Karl-class battleship

The Erzherzog Karl-class, like the Habsburg-class before them and the Radetzky-class after them were named after archdukes of the Austro-Hungarian Royal Family, specifically Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Maximilian I of Mexico and Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen.

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.

Karl von Scherzer

He returned to Vienna in the middle of 1855 and, with the support of Archduke Maximilian, became a member of the group of scientists travelling on board the frigate Novara around the world (see Novara expedition).

Salvador de Iturbide y Huarte

When Maximilian I of Mexico was crowned emperor, he contacted the Iturbide family to ask for the adoption of two boys: His Highness, Agustín de Iturbide y Green, son of Ángel, and His Highness Salvador de Iturbide y Marzán (his own).