Work With Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria
1863 : Appointed Presidential Secretary of the Emperor during the Congress of the German Princes in Frankfurt am Main.
1865 : Called back to Vienna and appointed by the Emperor to become Privy Councillor and Director of His Cabinet’s Chancellery. Took oath on Nov.10, 1865. The very private relation between him and the Monarch commanded his absolute secrecy. At the end of 1865 his career as a diplomat ended and he took permanent residence in Vienna.
1866 : Battle of Königrätz, on 3 July – Defeat of the Austrian Monarchy against the Prussians. Dissolution of the German Confederation.
1867 : Franz Joseph I became Constitutional Emperor
1867 : The Emperor and his wife Elisabeth were invited by Napoleon III to visit the Paris World Exhibition (autumn). Braun was part of the retinue.
1867 : The Emperor’s brother Ferdinand Maximilian (Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico) was shot in Mexico.
1869 : Napoleon III invited the Emperor Franz Joseph I to the opening of the Suez Canal (planned by Austrian Engineer Alois Negrelli and built by French Ferdinand de Lesseps). Braun traveled in the retinue of the Emperor who made the first pilgrimage of a Habsburg Monarch to the Holy Land since Friedrich III in 1430. The route went through Constantinople, Jerusalem, Jaffa to Egypt.
1870 : Franz Joseph I revoked the Concordat with the Vatican.
1874 : Traveled with the Emperor to St.Petersburg to visit Tsar Alexander II of Russia.
1879 : Silver Wedding Anniversary of the Emperor.
1889 : Death of Crown Prince Rudolf in Mayerling together with Baroness Mary Vetsera. von Braun wrote on behalf of the Emperor to the mother of 18 year old Vetsera on 19 July 1889 to announce the tragic event and forward the Emperors condolences. (Letter in the Vienna National Library)
1898 : Assassination of the Empress Elisabeth in Geneva, Switzerland.
1899 : von Braun went into retirement in December, at age 81.
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