The richest man to ever live was so wealthy that the rulers of one of the largest empires in history came to him for help.

Due to a unique set of circumstances at the beginning of the 16th century, a teenage monarch inherited much of Europe, ...

Maximilian of Habsburg ruled Mexico from 1864 ... I want to die at high altitude is the title of a poem written by the emperor in his youth, which was later fulfilled when he died shot in the ...

On a day like today, April 2, but in 1867, Diaz achieved, together with his army, the seizure of Puebla, after the city was taken by supporters of Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg ...

Boys have been singing at Vienna's Imperial Chapel since at least 1296. In 1498 Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. established a Court Chapel in Vienna where he established boys among the singers ...

In 1869, artist Édouard Manet finished his painting of The Execution of Emperor Maximilian, depicting the death, by firing squad, of Maximilian and two of his generals in 1867, in Querétaro, Mexico.