biography
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Charles I (of Austria-Hungary)
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| lived:
| (1887–1922)
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| biography:
| Emperor of Austria (1916–18, as Karl I) and king of Hungary (1916–19, as Kàroly IV), born at Persenbeug Castle, C Austria. The last of the Habsburg emperors, he succeeded his grand-uncle, Francis Joseph, in 1916, and became heir presumptive on the assassination at Sarajevo (1914) of his uncle, Archduke Francis Ferdinand. In 1919 he was deposed by the Austrian parliament and exiled to Switzerland. Two attempts to regain his Hungarian throne in 1921 failed. |
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