Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor: Facts

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a Habsburg-Persian alliance was initiated by Charles V in the 16th century, in order to open a second front in his fight against the Ottoman Empire?
in the 1541 Algiers expedition (pictured) Holy Roman Emperor Charles V lost more than 100 ships and nearly lost his life?
the Revolt of the Comuneros against Charles V was partly provoked by the taxes raised in order to bribe prince-electors to elect him Holy Roman Emperor?
the Revolt of the Comuneros, an uprising against Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, is considered by some to be the first modern revolution?

Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I commissioned the Triumphal Arch (pictured), a monumental woodcut print over 3½ m (11½ ft) tall and nearly 3 m (10 ft) wide printed from 192 separate wood blocks?
the Hofkirche (Court Church) in Innsbruck was built by Ferdinand I as a memorial for his grandfather, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor?
the Swabian War of 1499 was fought between the Old Swiss Confederacy and the emperor Maximilian I and his Swabian League?
visits to the workshop of Hieronymus Andreae by Maximilian I gave rise to a Nuremberg saying "The Emperor has gone to the women's alley again"?

in 1775 military-minded Empress Maria Theresa of Austria dedicated the Schönbrunn Palace Garden Gloriette as a monument to Just War?
when a young Mozart toured Italy, Pope Clement XIV awarded the composer a knighthood, but Empress Maria Theresa dismissed Mozart and his father as "useless people"?

the Hofkirche (Court Church) in Innsbruck was built by Ferdinand I as a memorial for his grandfather, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor?

Charles Boit's enamel group portrait of the family of Emperor Leopold I cracked after one of the Imperial princes accidentally sat down on it?