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Show REIGN OF FRANCIS JOSEPH ACTUALLY LONGEST IN RECORDED HISTORY MHHHHHJHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHJHHTT $ IP..ILI-1L"'" HHr vt S ' W .. s HIHVJl 'lmJKItfSiStttMSfSsHt KNv'V. 1 EMPEROR. FRANCIS JOSEPH Francis Joseph I., emperor of Austria, npostollc king of Hungary, king of Bo- hernia, of Croatia, otGallcln. eta, wan barn Auk. 18, 1S30, and nscondod the throne Dec. 2, 1848, In succession to his uncle. Emperor Ferdinand I., who abdicated on that date. Ills rehrri of sixty-seven years 4t one of the lontcest In history, being exceeded only, It Is believed, by that of Lotils XIV. of France, who sat on the throno seVenty-two years. But Louis wnsi child of nvo when he ascended the throne, whereas Francis Joseph had attained tho comparatively mature age of . eighteen, so In reality Francis Joseph' has had the longest actual reign. Tho heir I to his throne Is Charles Francis, Joseph, nephew of the murdored Archduke l Francis Ferdinand, who was the nephowqf fronds-Joseph.! . l |