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Historical Figures and Influential People in History
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Industrial Age Figures from Austria
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Franz Ferdinand
1863–1914Other
His assassination was the spark that lit the First World War — yet he had spent his career trying to reform the empire in ways that might have prevented one.
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Franz Joseph I
1830–1916Other
He became emperor at eighteen and reigned for sixty-eight years, holding together a dozen nations that spoke different languages and didn't much like each other — until the war that finally tore them apart.
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