Mayerling incident
1889 · Event
Crown Prince Rudolf and Baroness Mary Vetsera are found dead at his hunting lodge at Mayerling, almost certainly a murder-suicide the court spent decades obscuring. The succession passed to the emperor's brother Karl Ludwig and then his son Franz Ferdinand — whose assassination in 1914 began the First World War.
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