Second Mexican Empire
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The Second Mexican Empire, officially known as the Mexican Empire, was a constitutional monarchy established in Mexico by Mexican monarchists with the support of the Second French Empire. This period
Maximilian I of Mexico by Winterhalter, 1864. This portrait hangs in Chapultepec Castle.
Photograph of a reenactment of the Execution of Maximilian I of Mexico, and Generals Miramón and Mejía. Left to right: Mejía, Miramón, and Maximilian.
A delegation of the Kickapoo people being received at the royal court.
Maximilian planned the monument to Christopher Columbus for the grand boulevard, now called Paseo de la Reforma. It was built during the regime of Porfirio Díaz.
Maximilian I of Mexico
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Maximilian I was an Austrian archduke who became emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 10 April 1864 until his execution by the Restored Republic of Mexico on 19 June 1867.
Second Mexican Empire
…of the United States. The throne of Mexico was offered by Mexican monarchists, who had lost a civil war against Mexican liberals, to Austrian Archduke Maximilian of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, who had ancestral ties to the rulers of colonial Mexico. Maximilian's ascension was ratified through a controversial…
Formal portrait, c. 1864
Maximilian as a boy, 1847, by Joseph Karl Stieler
Maximilian in uniform, painted in 1853
Maria Amélia of Brazil by Friedrich Dürck, painted between 1837 and 1839