A Murderous Affair: The Habsburgs’ Greatest Scandal (TRIH ep 689, part 1)
1881 · Resource
What was Vienna like in the 1880s? Why was Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria seen as the outcast of the prestigious Habsburg dynasty? And, how would meeting 17 year-old Baroness Mary Vetsera on his 30th birthday change both of their lives, and the trajectory of Europe, forever?
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Around 1881
- Scramble for Africa (1881)
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- German unification (1871)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Bismarck's chancellorship (1871)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Berlin Conference (1884)