German Kaiser Wilhelm II with Austro-Hungarian Emperor Charles I during a visit to the front, 1917. .
German Kaiser Wilhelm II with Austro-Hungarian Emperor Charles I during a visit to the front, 1917. . Today 107 years ago, on November 21, 1916, Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I of the House of Habsburg died and was succeeded by his grand-nephew Charles I, the last Emperor of Austria-Hungary. . As a result of a developing pneumonia and old age, on the evening of November 21, 1916, Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I died inside the Schรถnbrunn Palace in Vienna, the same place he was born, at the age of 86. . During her life, Emperor Franz Joseph's wife Empress Elisabeth had given birth to 4 children, but only 1 son to inherit the Austro-Hungarian throne, Crown Prince Rudolph, who committed suicide in 1889. . This left Emperor Franz Joseph's brother's eldest son Archduke Franz Ferdinand as the next heir in line to the Austro-Hungarian throne, who was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. . The next Habsburg heir in line was 29-year-old C...