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Due, however, to their satiric and overtly liberal political inclinations, both operas were seen as unsuitable for public performance in the politically reactive cultures of Leopold II and later Francis II.
For example, when Salieri was appointed Kapellmeister in 1788 he revived Figaro instead of bringing out a new opera of his own ; and when he went to the coronation festivities for Leopold II in 1790 he had no fewer than three Mozart masses in his luggage.
Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.
In Florence on 8 September 1787 ( by proxy ) and again in Dresden on 18 October 1787 ( in person ), Anton married a second time with the Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria ( Maria Theresia Josephe Charlotte Johanna ), daughter of the Grand Duke Leopold I of Tuscany, later Emperor Leopold II.
Category: Grand Officers of the Order of Leopold II
The Congo Free State was a corporate state privately controlled by Leopold II, King of the Belgians through the Association Internationale Africaine, a non-governmental organization.
By 1908 public and diplomatic pressure led Leopold II to the annex the Congo as the Belgian Congo colony.
From the day King Leopold II established colonial authority in what is now Congo-Kinshasa to today, the country's government has been unstable.
The first organized Congolese troops, known as the ( FP ), were created in 1888 when King Leopold II of Belgium, who held the Congo Free State as his private property, ordered his Secretary of the Interior to create military and police forces for the state.
* 1909 Leopold II of Belgium ( b. 1835 )
His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle a daughter of Philip II of Spain and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.
With Leopold I's interests now focused on Spain and the imminent death of Charles II, the Emperor terminated the conflict with the Sultan, and signed the Treaty of Karlowitz on 26 January 1699.
* 1885 King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
Meanwhile, a new threat arose from abroad: Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, Frederick William II of Prussia, and the King's brother Charles-Philippe, comte d ' Artois, issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, which considered the cause of Louis XVI as their own, demanded his absolute liberty and implied an invasion of France on his behalf if the revolutionary authorities refused its conditions.
The Austrian emperor Leopold II, brother of Marie Antoinette, may have wished to avoid war, but he died on 1 March 1792.
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and his family.
Francis was a son of the future Emperor Leopold II ( 1747 1792 ) and his wife Maria Luisa of Spain ( 1745 1792 ), daughter of Charles III of Spain.
On the foreign affairs front, in the Declaration of Pillnitz of August 1791, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, Count Charles of Artois, and King Frederick William II of Prussia made Louis XVI's cause their own.
* 1870 Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( b. 1797 )
In late 1217 Andrew II of Hungary and Leopold VI, Duke of Austria arrived in Acre and, along with John of Brienne, raided territory further inland, including Mount Tabor, but without success.
* 1747 Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1792 )

Leopold and Tuscany
Leopold was, from 1765 to 1790, the Grand duke | Grand Duke of Tuscany
Gabbro was named by the German geologist Christian Leopold von Buch after a town in the Italian Tuscany region.
* 1786 Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty.
Some of the pressure was subtle: for an unprecedented impromptu visit to the conclave by Emperor Joseph II ( 1765 90 ) and his brother Leopold, Grand Duke of Tuscany, officially incognito, the seals were broken, the Austrians inspected the proceedings with great interest and brought with them a festive banquet.
* October 3 Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1870 )
* January 29 Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( b. 1797 )
* November 30 Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty.
In the Kingdom of Naples difficulties necessitating certain concessions in respect of feudal homage were raised by the liberal minister Tanucci, and more serious disagreements arose with Leopold II ( 1790 92 ), later emperor, and Scipione de ' Ricci, bishop of Pistoia and Prato, upon the questions of reform in Tuscany ; but Pius VI did not think fit to condemn the decrees of the synod of Pistoia ( 1786 ) till nearly eight years had elapsed.
Headed by Champollion and assisted by Rosellini his first disciple and great friend, the mission was known as the Franco-Tuscan Expedition, and was made possible by the support of the grand-duke of Tuscany, Leopold II, and the King of France, Charles X.
Caviglia offered to send the statue to Grand Duke of Tuscany, Leopold II, through the mediation of Ippolito Rosellini.
* Archduke Leopold of Austria, prince of Tuscany
He was the second son of Leopold, then Grand-Duke of Tuscany, and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.
* Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany born 1797 ;
Leopold II ( 5 May 1747 1 March 1792 ), born Peter Leopold Joseph Anton Joachim Pius Gotthard, was Holy Roman Emperor and King of Hungary and Bohemia from 1790 to 1792, Archduke of Austria and Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 to 1790.
Charles Albert in Piedmont and Leopold II in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany had been forced to make concessions to the democrats.
Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany and duke Francis V of Modena escaped from their countries.
Anatole was raised to the station of Prince by Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany shortly before the wedding to fulfill the wishes of Mathilde's father and to preserve Mathilde's station as Princess.
In 1779 Queen Maria Carolina of Naples persuaded her brother the Grand-Duke Leopold of Tuscany to allow Acton, who had been recommended to her by Prince Caramenico, to undertake the reorganisation of the Neapolitan navy.
Leopold, Grand Duke of Tuscany passed an edict putting Becarria's ideas into effect.
In Tuscany torture was abolished by the Grand Duke, Peter Leopold in 1786 largely as a result of Becarria's lucid indictment of torture and the death penalty.
** Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor ( who was also Leopold I, Grand Duke of Tuscany ) -- ( 1747-1792 )

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