Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I raru a Franz Joseph i te mana whenua i te wa katoa o tana kingitanga. I whakatauhia e ia te Whakaaetanga Austro-Hungarian o te tau 1867, i whakawhiwhia ai te mana motuhake ki Hungary me te huri i te Emepaea o Austria ki te Monarchy Takirua o Austria-Hungary. I whakahaerehia e ia te rangimarie mo nga tau 45 e whai ake nei, engari i raru ia i nga aitua o te whakawakanga o tona tuakana Emperor Maximilian I o Mexico i te 1867, te whakamomori o tana tama Crown Prince Rudolf i te 1889, te kohuru o tana wahine Empress Elisabeth ("Sisi") i te 1898, me te kohuru o tana taina me te kawana-kawana, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, i te 1914. Whai muri i te Pakanga o Austro-Prussian, ka tahuri a Austria-Hungary ki nga Balkans, he waahi wera o te raruraru o te ao na te mea he rereke nga painga ki te Emepaea o Ruhia. Ko te
Ko te raru o Bosnia te hua o te whakaurunga a Franz Joseph ki Bosnia me Herzegovina i te tau 1908, i nohoia e ana hoia mai i te Congress of Berlin (1878). I te 28 o Hune 1914, i hua te kohuru o tana taina a Franz Ferdinand i Sarajevo i te whakapuakanga a Austria-Hungary mo te pakanga ki te Kingi o Serbia, he hoa o te Emepaea o Ruhia. I whakahohehia e tera he punaha o nga hononga i hua ai te Pakanga Tuatahi o te Ao. I mate te Emepara i te tau 1916, i muri i tana whakahaere i ana rohe mo te tata ki te 68 tau. I whai muri ia i tana mokopuna nui a Charles.