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10. 9. 1898

10.9. 1898 Murder of Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria

The Austrian Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria was the victim of an assassination attempt in 1898 while staying at the Hotel Beau Rivage in Geneva. The assassin ran towards her with a file in his hand.

9. 9. 1285

9.9. 1285 Queen Kunhuta of Hungary died

The second wife of Přemysl Otakar II was the young and supposedly exceptionally beautiful Kunhuta Uherská. She married at the age of sixteen and bore the king a son, Václav II. She apparently died of tuberculosis at the age of forty.

6. 9. 1437

6.9. 1437 The army captured Jan Rohac of Dubá

Jan Roháč of Dubá belonged to the followers of the radical Hussite movement of the Taborites. In early September 1437 he was captured and executed in Prague on Old Town Square. Of the Gothic castle of Sion, only modest remains of the castle palace and walls have survived.

5. 9. 1723

5.9. 1723 Charles VI crowned King of Bohemia

In 1723, Emperor Charles VI decided to fulfil his eleven-year delayed promise to the Czech Estates that he would be crowned King of Bohemia. The coronation took place in St. Vitus Cathedral.

2. 9. 1347

2.9.1347 Coronation of Charles IV as King of Bohemia

Charles IV emphasised his position as King of Bohemia and placed great emphasis on the external aspects of his power. Therefore, he also tried to draw attention to his position on ceremonial occasions. The most important of these was his coronation as King of Bohemia.

How to bring a Roman emperor to life? Thanks to AI, it's possible

Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool for renovating old photos and videos. So much so that it can, in a sense, bring ancient statues and stone busts of the long-dead back to life.emperors, as designer Daniel Voshart recently demonstrated in his "quarantine project"...

22. 8. 1471

22.8. 1471 Vladislav Jagellonsky crowned King of Bohemia

Vladislav Jagiellonian had to continue the war with Matthias Corvinus right from the beginning of his reign. When he became King of Hungary, he moved from Prague to Buda. He died at the age of sixty.

20. 8. 1940

20.8. 1940 Russian revolutionary Trotsky assassination victim

Already in 1929 Stalin got rid of his greatest opponent, Leon Trotsky, whom he forced to leave emigration. Later in 1940, Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico, an assassination orchestrated by Beria on Stalin's orders.

19. 8. 1619

19.8. 1619 The rebellious Czech Estates deposed Ferdinand II.

The only ally willing to join his fate in 1619 with the Bohemian uprising was the twenty-three-year-old Calvinist Elector Frederick V. Falck. He succeeded Ferdinand II, who had been deposed by the rebellious Bohemian Estates.

18. 8. 1830

18.8. 1830 Francis Joseph I. is born.

František Josef had a military education, learned foreign languages and was brought up in the spirit of the Austrian Grand Seigneur. He was born at Laxenburg Castle near Vienna.

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