Empress Elisabeth of Austria
1837–1898 · Person
'Sisi' — Franz Joseph's restless, beautiful, unhappy empress, obsessed with travel, poetry and her own legend, and stabbed to death by an anarchist on Lake Geneva.
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- Habsburg Monarchy (1526)
- Reign of Franz Joseph I (1848)
- Maria Theresa (1717)
- Rudolf I of Habsburg elected (1273)
- Charles V elected Holy Roman Emperor (1519)
- Fin-de-siècle Vienna (1890)
- Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663)
- Abdication of Charles V (1555)
Around 1837
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- Opium Wars (1839)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
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- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
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