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Jul 06, 1832 Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria Died on 19 Jun 1867 (aged 34)
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About Maximilian I Of Mexico
- Maximilian I (Spanish: Fernando Maximiliano José María de Habsburgo-Lorena; 6 July 1832 – 19 June 1867) was the only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire.
- He was a younger brother of the Austrian emperor Franz Joseph I.
- After a distinguished career in the Austrian Navy as its commander, he accepted an offer by Napoleon III of France to rule Mexico, conditional on a national plebiscite in his favour.
- France, together with Spain and the United Kingdom, invaded the Mexican Republic in the winter of 1861, ostensibly to collect debts; the Spanish and British both withdrew the following year after negotiating agreements with Mexico's republican government, while France sought to conquer the country.
- Seeking to legitimize French rule, Napoleon III invited Maximilian to establish a new pro-French Mexican monarchy.
- With the support of the French army and a group of Conservative Party monarchists hostile to the Liberal Party administration of the new Mexican president, Benito Juárez, Maximilian was offered the position of Emperor of Mexico, which he accepted on 10 April 1864.The Empire managed to gain the recognition of several European powers, including Britain, Austria, and Prussia.
- The United States however, continued to recognize Juárez as the legal president of Mexico.
- Maximilian never completely defeated the Mexican Republic; Republican forces led by Juárez continued to be active during Maximilian's rule.
- With the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the United States (which had been too distracted by its own conflict to respond to the Europeans' 1861 invasion in what it considered to be its sphere of influence) began providing more explicit aid to Juárez's forces.
- Matters worsened for Maximilian after French armies withdrew from Mexico in 1866.
- His self-declared empire collapsed, and he was captured and executed by the Mexican government, which then restored the Mexican Republic. His wife, Charlotte of Belgium (Carlota), who had left for Europe earlier to try to build support for her husband's regime, suffered an emotional collapse after his death and apparently became insane.
